EyeitPreview opens a file, not a folder
Open one image and that is all you get. Arrow keys do nothing. Animated GIF, WebP and APNG often do not play.
Version 0.1.0 · macOS 14+
The fastest image viewer on Mac.
Eyeit is a simple, practical image viewer for the AI era. Open one picture and browse the whole folder — ten thousand files included. The interface stays out of the way. The window never jumps. First screen in under 300 ms.
A native Mac app. Pictures stay on your Mac. Apple silicon and Intel.
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macOS still cannot browse a folder of pictures
The same question has been asked since 2009: how do I arrow through a folder the way Windows does? Apple’s three built-in answers each miss a piece.
Quick Look is a glance, not a viewer
You can flip only inside Finder’s current selection. You cannot delete, it forgets zoom, and it will not go into subfolders.
Photos is a library you have to import
It does not manage pictures that live as ordinary files. Finder itself slows to a crawl on a folder of twenty thousand.
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Designed around looking
The window is the picture
No title bar, toolbar or sidebar in the way. Move to an edge and the interface fades in; move away and it fades out. The picture is never covered.
Open one, browse the rest
Drop a file on Eyeit and the whole folder is ready. Arrow keys, scroll, trackpad. The next picture is instant.
Ten thousand is the point
A native feel is the entry fee. The difference is speed: the first screen of a 10,000-file folder in under 300 ms.
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Simple, practical features
The free core is built so someone coming from Windows never has to read a manual.
- The window never jumps
Changing pictures never recentres or resizes the window. Your place on screen stays put.
- Delete, undo, stay where you are
Backspace moves to Trash. ⌘Z brings it back. Full screen does not exit. You stay on the next picture, not a hole in the list.
- Info that stays open
Camera, lens, exposure, GPS. Change pictures and the panel stays — it only updates. Prompts from Midjourney, ComfyUI and other AI tools sit in the same place, one click to copy.
- The formats you actually open
JPEG, PNG, GIF, HEIC, WebP, AVIF, JPEG XL, TIFF, PSD, RAW and more. Animated GIF, WebP and AVIF play as you expect.
- Zoom that respects small pictures
Fit, actual size, fill. A 16-pixel icon is not stretched across the window. Pinch, scroll and double-click all work.
- Instant full screen
Return or F. No theatrical animation. Each display is independent. Trash and arrow keys keep working.
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An image viewer for the AI era
Huge folders of generations need more than a slideshow. Search by prompt, model or seed. Group lookalikes. Compare side by side. Ten thousand thumbnails on the first screen in under 300 ms.
- A grid that stays fast at ten thousand files
- Search by prompt, model, seed or size
- Visual duplicate groups
- Side-by-side / wipe / difference compare
< 300 ms
first screen of a 10,000-file folder
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Cull a shoot without touching the originals
For the studio client choosing 30 frames out of 600, or the night of 400 AI generations you need to cut to 20. Mark as you look. Nothing happens to your files until you deliver, and you can take back any mark.
- P to keep, X to reject
One key per picture, then Eyeit jumps to the next unmarked one. Press the same key again to clear it. Rejects are dimmed, not deleted. Filter to see only what is left, only the keepers or only the rejects.
- 1–5 stars
Stars sit alongside keep and reject, as in Lightroom: a picture can be a keeper and four stars. 0 clears them. Filter by rating for the second pass.
- RAW + JPEG count as one
A shoot saved in both formats shows 300 pictures, not 600. Mark, delete, move or deliver one, and its RAW file and .xmp go with it.
- Stars and flags Lightroom understands
Ratings and flags already in XMP show up when you open the folder. Delivered copies carry yours as XMP that Lightroom reads. If you ask, Eyeit also writes .xmp sidecars next to your RAW files — never into an original JPEG.
- Deliver the keepers
Copies the keepers to a folder you choose. Originals are never moved, renamed or deleted. Change your mind and deliver again: only the difference is copied, and copies you no longer want go to the Trash — unless someone has edited them since.
- Focus peaking
⇧F outlines the sharpest edges in red, so you can tell whether the eyes are in focus without zooming in.
- Every mark can be undone
Press the key again, or ⌘Z. Marks, star ratings and whole deliveries all sit on one undo timeline.
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One viewer, the formats you open
JPEG, HEIC, WebP, AVIF, RAW, PSD and the rest — including animated GIF and WebP. No extra app for the unusual ones.
- JPEG
- PNG
- GIF
- HEIC
- WebP
- AVIF
- JPEG XL
- TIFF
- PSD
- EXR
- RAW
- BMP
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Keyboard first
Every action lives in the menu bar. The keys you press all day have no surprises.
- ← →Previous / next
- ⌫Move to Trash
- ⌘ZUndo
- P / XKeep / reject
- 1–5Star rating
- ⌘0Fit to window
- ⌘1Actual size
- ⌘IInspector
- ⌘TThumbnails
- ⌘GGrid
- ⌘FSearch
- ⏎ / FFull screen
- TabPicture only
- ⌥⌘SSlideshow
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What it is not
A viewer that grows an editor stops being a viewer. Eyeit draws that line on purpose.
Not an editor
No exposure, no object removal, no upscaling. Those belong in another app. Eyeit shows the file.
Not a file manager
No folder sidebar. Open one picture, browse the folder. That is the whole model.
Not a subscription
The free core stays free. Pro is a one-time purchase when it ships. There will always be a way to buy it once.
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Questions
- What is Eyeit?
- Eyeit is a high-performance image viewer for Mac. It is simple and practical: open one picture, browse the whole folder, and keep the interface off the image. It is also an AI image viewer — prompts, models and huge generation folders included.
- When can I download it?
- Now. The download button on the homepage always points at the current version, and once installed Eyeit keeps itself up to date.
- Does anything leave my Mac?
- No. Pictures, metadata and prompts stay on your Mac. There is no account, no analytics, and nothing is uploaded to look at a file.
- Will it fill up my disk?
- No. Thumbnails that are slow to make — mostly large camera photos — are kept in a disk cache so a big folder opens faster the second time. The cache has a limit (1 GB by default), Settings shows how much it uses, one button clears it, and you can turn it off.
- Will it replace Preview?
- That is the point. One click sets Eyeit as the default for JPEG, PNG, HEIC, GIF, WebP and the rest. On recent macOS versions the system asks once per format — Eyeit tells you before it asks.
- Can it view AI-generated images?
- Yes. Read prompts from Midjourney, ComfyUI and similar tools, search by model or seed, and browse folders of thousands of generations without waiting.
- What about Windows or iPhone?
- Not in version 1. Eyeit is a native Mac app first.
Now on Mac.
A simple, high-performance image viewer. Built for the folder you were afraid to open.
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