Pict-o-view
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Your photos, all yours.

Pict-o-view is a native macOS viewer built for real folders of real photos — thousands at a time, browsed and culled at full speed, with nothing ever leaving your Mac.

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Requires macOS 15 or later on Apple Silicon · No account · No analytics

Built for whole shoots

Not a one-photo-at-a-time previewer. A place to work through a card full of frames.

  • Cull at speed

    Press ⌘K and go: keep, reject, unmark, each key advancing to the next frame. Marks are saved, survive relaunches, and travel with your files when you move or rename them.

  • Instant paging

    Neighbouring photos are decoded before you get to them, so holding an arrow key flies through a folder instead of stuttering through it.

  • MKV that just opens

    A built-in engine reads the container in memory and hands the video to your Mac's hardware decoder. No conversion, no temp files, multi-track audio and 5.1 surround included.

  • Edits that can't bite

    Rotate and crop are stored beside the file and applied on the fly. Your original is never rewritten — export a copy when you want the pixels baked in.

  • Real file management

    Rename, move, copy, paste, drag between folders and out to other apps, sweep rejects to the Trash — the grid is a Finder that shows you the picture.

  • Private by construction

    No servers, no accounts, no telemetry, no network calls at all. It sees the folders you hand it and nothing else on your Mac.

Opens what your camera makes

Images: JPEG, PNG, HEIC, TIFF, animated GIF, WebP, BMP, plus camera RAW — CR2/CR3, NEF, ARW, DNG, RAF, ORF and more.

Video: MOV, MP4 and M4V through macOS; MKV through the built-in engine; AVI, MPG, 3GP and TS/MTS/M2TS whenever macOS can decode what's inside. The full story is on the support page.

Questions?

The Help page walks through every feature, the Support page answers the common questions, and mugilanm7@gmail.com reaches a human.