PicSee

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Double-click to open. Close to quit.A lightweight, native macOS image viewer. Zoom, crop, annotate, and copy text with OCR. PicSee quits when you close the viewer window, with no extra steps.

  • Scroll to zoom · Drag to pan
  • Crop images · Annotate in place
  • Select and copy text with OCR
  • Browse with arrow keys
Download for macOS View source on GitHub
A softly shaded PicSee window displaying a scenic bay
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Scroll to zoom Drag to pan

Use the mouse wheel to zoom, then drag to pan around. Explore the details or take in the whole picture, whether you are viewing photos, long screenshots, or design mockups.

Zooming in on a sailboat in the bay and panning in PicSee
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Select and crop Annotate in place

Select an area to crop and enter an exact width and height. Add arrows, shapes, or text, or pixelate sensitive details. Copy the result or save it as a PNG.

Selecting a crop area in a bay photo and marking a sailboat with an arrow in PicSee
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Select text with OCR Copy instantly

Recognize text in images with OCR, drag to select it, and press ⌘C to copy. Extract text from screenshots or scanned documents without retyping.

Selecting text on a bay postcard in PicSee and copying it with ⌘C
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Browse with arrow keys Follow Finder order

Use the arrow keys to browse images in the same folder. With Automation permission granted and Finder’s sort order available, PicSee follows that order. Otherwise, it uses natural filename order.

Browsing landscape images with the arrow keys in PicSee
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Make it your default Double-click to open

Choose image formats in Settings to make PicSee their default app. Then just double-click an image in Finder to open it.

Setting PicSee as the default viewer for JPEG, PNG, HEIC, and RAW images

Supported image formats

JPEG .jpg, .jpeg PNG .png GIF .gif HEIC .heic TIFF .tif, .tiff BMP .bmp WebP .webp RAW .dng, .cr2, .cr3, .nef, .arw, .raf, .rw2 AVIF .avif SVG .svg Icons .ico, .icns JPEG 2000 .jp2, .j2k, .jpf, .jpx Photoshop .psd, .psb TGA .tga DDS .dds OpenEXR .exr Radiance HDR .hdr JPEG XL .jxl

Full decoding of professional image formats depends on ImageIO support in your macOS version and the previews embedded in each file.

Requires
macOS 14 or later
Processor support
Apple Silicon and Intel
Built with
Swift 6 · Native for macOS