In development · for macOS Sonoma and later

Photos at the speed of 

Featherview is an image viewer for the Mac that keeps up with your fingers. Open one picture, flip through the whole folder, toss the rejects, batch-convert the keepers.

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psst: the keys work right here. Try holding →.

speed

We looked for a loading spinner. There isn’t one.

The next photo is ready before you ask for it. Huge folders open without the window freezing. You stop waiting and just look.

spinner: currently unemployed

the viewer

Everything you need to sort a folder of photos. Nothing in the way.

One window, the picture edge to edge, and your keyboard. Panels appear only when you ask.

It’s just there

Double-click a photo in Finder. It opens, and the rest of the folder lines up behind it.

One key, one job

Rotate, zoom, trash, full screen. Each is a single key, no finger yoga. Mouse fans get a toolbar.

Rotation without regret

R and L turn JPEG, HEIC and TIFF without touching a single pixel.

Hard to break

Delete goes to the Trash. Batch output never overwrites. One broken file never stops the show.

Nosy, on request

Press I to see the camera, lens, exposure and when the shot was taken.

Mac to the core

Real Mac menus, full screen, Open With, drag and drop, true colours, and HDR that glows on HDR screens.

keyboard

Your mouse can take the day off.

Every viewer action is one key, no modifiers to hold. Coming from a classic Windows viewer? Your fingers already know most of these. The ⌘ shortcuts are there too.

cheat-sheet.txtno modifiers required

Browse

→SpaceNext, then on to the next folder
←⌫Back
HomeEndJump to either end

Look closer

+−01Zoom, fit, every pixel
FIFull screen, info

Tidy up

RLTurn it the right way up
F7F8Move or copy to a favourite folder
⌦Off to the Trash
BBatch the lot

// Esc leaves full screen. It never, ever quits.

formats

Opens the usual suspects. And the odd ones.

Every picture shows up the right way round, in true colour.

Everything your Mac opens

Phone photos, camera RAW, the modern web formats, even SVG and PDF pages.

  • .jpg
  • .heic
  • .png
  • .webp
  • .avif
  • .jxl
  • .dng
  • .tiff
  • .psd
  • .exr
  • .svg
  • .pdf
  • and friends

The forgotten classics

Formats macOS gave up on, read by Featherview itself. That PCX from your first PC, a MacPaint doodle, a telescope’s FITS? Opens fine, and Finder shows their thumbnails too.

  • .pcx
  • .qoi
  • .xpm
  • .xbm
  • .iff
  • .ras
  • .mac
  • .fits
  • .xwd
  • .ani
  • and more

Fresh from the editor

Layered Photoshop, GIMP, Krita, Paint.NET and PaintShop Pro files, shown flattened. Procreate artwork from your iPad too, at full size. No editor needed.

  • .psb
  • .xcf
  • .kra
  • .ora
  • .procreate
  • .pdn
  • .psp

And it saves to all the useful ones: JPEG, PNG, HEIC, AVIF, WebP, TIFF, PDF, and even ICO and ICNS for the icon crowd.

batch

A whole shoot in. Exactly what you need out.

Pick the keepers, choose a format, a size and a name, add the steps you want, watch the preview follow along, press Convert. Keep the recipe as a preset for next time.

  • Never overwrites a fileYour originals stay exactly as they were.
  • Keeps the storyCamera details and location come along.
  • Doesn’t give upA file it can’t read is skipped. The rest still gets done.

Resize, crop, rotate, fix colour, sharpen, add a border, stamp text or a watermark, and rename with a pattern.

languages

Speaks your language. Thirty of them.

Featherview follows your Mac’s language. Arabic and Hebrew flip the whole window right to left. Your photos stay the right way round.

Free, light as a feather, made for the Mac.

Written in Swift on macOS’s own image engine. The viewer, the formats, batch, translations and Finder previews are built; animated GIFs come next. The first release is on its way.

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