An image & video viewer for macOS that just doesn't suck.
Open a folder, see thumbnails, look at one picture large, page through with the keyboard. Videos play right there, too, even MKV, AVI and WebM. No library to import into, no waiting, no clutter.
macOS 15 or later, Apple silicon. Signed with a Developer ID, notarized by Apple, running in Apple's App Sandbox. Both versions are the same app with every feature; whoever buys it in the Store supports its development.
It shows your pictures and talks to nobody.
No pro version, no subscription, no "unlock" button. Every feature is in.
No library to import into, no editor, no cloud. Just looking at photos and videos, done well.
Thumbnails appear while you scroll, big folders and network shares included.
Pictures, videos and archives from others run nothing and go online nowhere, with nothing to switch on first.
Broken files, odd formats and slow disks show a placeholder instead of taking the app down.
Space opens a picture as large as the window allows, ← → page through the folder. Zoom in with the trackpad or + −, turn with ⌥← ⌥→, full screen with f. Animated GIFs, SVG and PDF included.
A slideshow (s) runs through the folder and all its subfolders, photos and videos alike.
What macOS plays itself (MP4, MOV, AVCHD …) plays through macOS, everything else through the VLC engine built in: MKV, WebM, AVI, WMV, FLV, MPEG, DVD video.
ZIP, RAR and 7z, comics (CBZ, CBR) included, also in several parts; ZIP and RAR also with a password. Nothing is unpacked to disk, and videos play straight from the archive. (7z needs a recent macOS: macOS 15 can't read most of them.)
D shows two folders side by side. Mark pictures, then F5 copies and F6 moves them to the other side, or drag them there.
Rename, new folder, trash, bookmarks, and undo for renaming, trashing, copying and moving.
The search field matches the names of folders, archives, pictures and videos, in the folder shown and everything below it. Results arrive while it searches, a slow network share included. Ignoring case, matching it, or a regular expression.
E improves exposure, contrast, saturation and sharpness automatically, for photos and videos alike. A opens the sliders. It is a view: your files stay as they are.
I shows the format, resolution, codecs, bitrate, bit depth, colour profile and camera, and a note when the file's extension doesn't match its content.
F1 lists every key, to print too; K shows a small keyboard to click. Grid or list (L), sort by name, kind, date or size, several windows, and a boss key (X).
Pictures, videos and archives from strangers are exactly what a viewer is for, so Schnellbild treats every file as hostile, out of the box.
What it does in detail, and where its limit is: Safe with files from others.
They were the models: Phiewer for browsing pictures by keyboard, IINA for handling videos quickly, Norton Commander for the dual pane. How Schnellbild compares: a free Phiewer alternative, a free IINA alternative for looking through videos.
Schnellbild is free software under the MIT License, the source is on GitHub. Found a bug or missing something? Open an issue.
In your Mac's language: English, Deutsch, Français, Español, Italiano, Português (Brasil), Nederlands, Polski, Svenska, Dansk, Norsk, Suomi, Čeština, Türkçe, Русский, Українська, 日本語, 한국어, 简体中文, 繁體中文.