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Darkview

A native macOS photo viewer and importer

macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon & Intel · Free

Download for macOS

Universal build · Notarized · 12 MB

Or install with Homebrew

$ brew install --cask barcia/tap/darkview

Features

Everything on your disk, nothing anywhere else.

  • Native and offline

    Written in Swift for macOS. No catalog, no account, no cloud, no telemetry. Open a folder and it is there.

  • Import from SD or disk

    Detects cards and drives on connect. Copies paired files (RAW+JPEG) and deletes the originals if you want.

  • GPX geotagging on import

    Applies location from one or more GPX tracks by capture time, plus author and copyright. Requires ExifTool installed.

  • RAW, video and audio

    CR2, CR3, NEF, ARW, RAF… plus MOV, MP4, WAV and M4A. All in the same grid.

  • Grid, list and slideshow

    ⌘1, ⌘2, ⌘3. Filmstrip, Quick Look on Space and a built-in video player.

  • Filter by what you need

    Camera, focal length, date, resolution, size, rating, keywords, location, type and tags. All combinable.

  • Group by what matters

    Year, month, day, camera, rating, file type or folder. Sections, with your own order inside each one.

  • Metadata and map

    Full EXIF and a satellite map when the photo has GPS. Editable without recompressing the image.

  • Ratings and Finder tags

    Star ratings and macOS tags, written to the file. Finder shows exactly the same thing.

Updates

Changelog

0.5.0

  • Stability improvements and crash fixes, especially on macOS 27.
  • Faster, lighter and safer imports from memory cards.
  • Import now shows the progress of each file, says what it is doing at every step, and Cancel stops right away.
  • Clearer import summary and error messages, in the app's language.
  • Improved translations, and dates, numbers and file sizes now follow the app's language.
  • Many smaller fixes and improvements.

0.4.0

  • List view is now a real table: a heading for each metadata field, columns you can resize, headings that sort on click, and a filename column that stays in place as you scroll sideways.
  • Fixed a crash when ejecting an SD card while the photos were grouped into sections.
  • Fixed the toolbar jumping and reshuffling for a moment when switching between grid, list and slideshow.

0.3.0

  • First public release.