Motiv – Image Viewer

Your folders, your images.

Only for Mac

Free · In‑App Purchases

Mac

Motiv displays your images where they are: in folders, fast and without importing. Compare, inspect, keep favorites. Free, ad-free, no data collection. Motiv is an image and gallery viewer for the Mac. It displays images where they are, in your folders: no library, no import, no sign-in. Motiv never modifies a file. Folders instead of a library • Folders you granted access to and favourites in the sidebar, subfolders as a strip above the thumbnails • Thumbnails in any size, sorted by name, capture date, modification date, size or kind • Optionally with all subfolders, grouped by folder • Find an image by typing the beginning of its name Viewing • Single image view with zoom, fit to window, width or height • Rotate and flip in the view only – the file stays unchanged • Just the image in full screen, without bars or pointer • Trackpad: page, rotate and zoom with two fingers Comparing • Two to four images side by side, four as 2 × 2, with linked zoom • Same area or same pixels, even at different resolutions • Toggle on top of each other, blend smoothly or compare with a split line Information • File, image, capture and EXIF, location, description and all metadata in the sidebar • Quick info right in the image • Motiv opens locations in Maps on request Pleasant every day • Videos appear with a still frame and open in their default app on double-click • Open in Preview, Open With, Share, Show in Finder • Printing, one image per page, rotated and scaled to suit the paper • If Sensitive Content Warning is switched on in macOS, Motiv displays affected images blurred • JPEG, PNG, HEIC, TIFF, GIF, WebP, AVIF, SVG, RAW and everything macOS can read Honest and open • Free and open source under the Apache License 2.0 • No ads, no tracking, no analytics • Motiv itself never connects to the internet; only the voluntary tip goes through the App Store. Your images and settings stay on your Mac • If you like, you can support the development with a voluntary tip. It unlocks nothing; Motiv stays completely free.

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New in version 1.0.1 • Printing: the image displayed or all selected images, one per page, with ⌘P • In the print dialog: rotate images automatically, actual size, shrink large images or scale to paper size • If the prices for a tip do not load, you can try again

Version 1.0.1

The developer, Stefan Radermacher, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .

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    Information

    Seller
    Stefan Radermacher
    Size
    4 MB
    Category
    Productivity
    Compatibility
    Requires macOS 15.0 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 15.0 or later.
    Languages
    English and German
    Age Rating
    4+
    In-App Purchases
    Yes
    Copyright
    © 2026 Stefan Radermacher
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