Preview 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.
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.
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.
Open one image and that is all you get. Arrow keys do nothing. Animated GIF, WebP and APNG often do not play.
You can flip only inside Finder’s current selection. You cannot delete, it forgets zoom, and it will not go into subfolders.
It does not manage pictures that live as ordinary files. Finder itself slows to a crawl on a folder of twenty thousand.
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.
Drop a file on Eyeit and the whole folder is ready. Arrow keys, scroll, trackpad. The next picture is instant.
A native feel is the entry fee. The difference is speed: the first screen of a 10,000-file folder in under 300 ms.
The free core is built so someone coming from Windows never has to read a manual.
Changing pictures never recentres or resizes the window. Your place on screen stays put.
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.
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.
JPEG, PNG, GIF, HEIC, WebP, AVIF, JPEG XL, TIFF, PSD, RAW and more. Animated GIF, WebP and AVIF play as you expect.
Fit, actual size, fill. A 16-pixel icon is not stretched across the window. Pinch, scroll and double-click all work.
Return or F. No theatrical animation. Each display is independent. Trash and arrow keys keep working.
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.
JPEG, HEIC, WebP, AVIF, RAW, PSD and the rest — including animated GIF and WebP. No extra app for the unusual ones.
Every action lives in the menu bar. The keys you press all day have no surprises.
A viewer that grows an editor stops being a viewer. Eyeit draws that line on purpose.
No exposure, no object removal, no upscaling. Those belong in another app. Eyeit shows the file.
No folder sidebar. Open one picture, browse the folder. That is the whole model.
The free core stays free. Pro is a one-time purchase when it ships. There will always be a way to buy it once.
A simple, high-performance image viewer. Built for the folder you were afraid to open.
macOS 14+ · Apple silicon and Intel · no account