Download Picview - Image Viewer for macOS

Mask AI picks out a person, a plant or a mug from a photo so you can grab just that object and drop it into a layout. Picview keeps the interface out of the way while you flick through a folder of JPEGs, RAWs or PSDs, which makes it feel closer to a quick preview panel than a heavyweight editor.

• Opens a folder and shows every image inside, including nested folders, without importing anything into a library.
• Object detection lifts the main subject from an image — drag it straight into Keynote, Pages or a Figma canvas.
• Fixed-size and adaptive window modes let you check pixel-level detail or fit the frame to your screen on the fly.
• Filter by file extension when a folder mixes HEIC, WEBP, PNG and RAW — narrow the view in a couple of clicks.
• Flip and rotate are right there for quick orientation fixes before sending a comp or a reference shot.

It runs natively on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs back to macOS 11. The object copy trick sits next to the clipboard tools you already use, and folder-based browsing means you can point it at a working drive without reorganising files first.

Say you shot a product flat-lay with a dozen variations and need to pull the hero object from each frame. Open the shoot folder in Picview and let it scan the nested RAW and JPEG folders. Switch to adaptive window mode so the frame fills the screen edge-to-edge, then arrow-key through the set. When you land on a keeper, trigger object detection — it isolates the subject in about a second. Hit ⌘C and paste straight into your layout document. No round-trip through a separate masking tool, no saving intermediate PNGs to the desktop.

Sort the folder by capture time to match the order you shot in, or filter to .png only if you exported clean assets alongside the RAWs. The slideshow with shuffle off doubles as a quick client walkthrough — tap the spacebar to pause on a frame and discuss it.

Double-click to full view, ⌘⌫ to trash

• Double-click any thumbnail to jump to full view, then ⌘⌫ sends the file to Trash without leaving the keyboard.
• Mouse wheel zoom centers on your cursor, not the image midpoint, so you can magnify a corner detail without dragging afterward.
• In full-screen mode the cursor hides after a beat — handy when you're studying colour grades and don't want the pointer hovering over skin tones.
• EXIF data sits one tap away on the info panel; shutter speed and ISO are right at the top, not buried in a scrolling list.
• OCR runs on the visible frame and copies clean text to the clipboard — useful for grabbing a serial number or a sign from a location scout photo.

If you have used a Windows-style image viewer and missed the way it just steps through a folder without fussing about libraries, Picview fills that gap. It won't replace a cataloguing app, but for the daily job of looking at lots of pictures fast, it stays out of the way.

• Custom slideshow playback duration now sticks to the interval you set.

• macOS 11 or later
• Apple Silicon or Intel 64-bit