The image viewer macOS should have built. Mac • Productivity • Photography 8 115 Mintlify Knowledge infrastructure for AI agents Notes • Text Editors • GitHub Justin Torre We have been using the editor every day and it's an absolute game changer!!! I love this product and I think it's one of the leading editor experiences I have tried. Also, the ability to publish customer facing docs is just amazing.
Preview can't browse folders. Quick Look vanishes when you click. Every alternative is Electron bloat or a full editing suite. Vista just shows the image — fast. Arrow keys, that's it. Simple on the surface, obsessively refined underneath. Every detail you'd expect from a native Mac app, and a few you wouldn't. Free.
Vista provides a built-in color inspector with hex picker (⇧⌘C), pixel-level zoom up to 10× past actual size, full EXIF metadata display, camera settings, GPS coordinates, and histogram with RGB/Luminance channel toggle for detailed image analysis.
Vista supports PNG, JPEG, HEIC, WebP, TIFF, GIF, AVIF, PSD, RAW, and SVG files. It includes RAW rendering mode with choice between embedded JPEG preview and full RAW decode, plus HDR support for images with gain maps, PQ, or HLG.
Vista launches in under a second with minimal memory footprint, preloads nearby images in the background, and displays images instantly via GPU acceleration. Users can browse entire folders with arrow keys and trackpad swipes without unnecessary UI clutter.
Vista offers non-destructive display filters (Mono, Noir, Sepia, Invert), highlight/shadow clipping overlay, smooth image scaling toggle for pixel art inspection, and region selection with copy-to-clipboard functionality—all without modifying the original file.
Vista is built with pure Swift and AppKit using GPU-accelerated Core Animation rendering. It works with every image format macOS supports, includes native permissions styling, customizable keyboard shortcuts, and proper macOS window behavior without Electron or web views.