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A simple UI that gets out of your way
The controls fade out when the mouse moves away from them, and only the image stays on screen.
Image viewer
Free download
Version 0.2.0 · Changelog
Windows
Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit
GPU with Vulkan 1.3
GPU with Vulkan 1.3
macOS
macOS 15 or later
Apple Silicon
Apple Silicon
An ergonomic, fast, no-nonsense image viewer
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See the pixels when you look for them
Between 2× and 4× zoom, Zeiger blends from linear filtering to nearest neighbour, and each image pixel becomes a sharp square. From 8× a pixel grid fades in, and at 24× it is fully visible. Zoomed out, Zeiger draws the image from mipmaps, without aliasing. You can change all of these thresholds in the settings.
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View and scrub animated images
GIF, APNG and animated WebP play when they open. The playback bar has play and pause, and you can scrub through the frames. Space pauses and resumes.
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Quick edits, ad hoc
Rotate, crop, and adjust black point, midtones, white point, contrast and saturation. By default, Save writes the result to a new file next to the original, and the original does not change.
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Quick fill, fit and 1:1
One key switches how images fit the window.
- 1 Fit
- 2 Fill
- 3 1:1
- 4 Resize window
Folders in the order you sorted them
Zeiger follows the sort order of Windows Explorer, Finder or FilePilot, or sorts by name, size, date or type.
Quick actions
Copy the image, its path, its name or the file. Show it in Explorer or Finder, open it with another app, rename or delete it, or set it as the wallpaper.
Color picker
Hold Alt (Option on a Mac) over the image to pick a color. The picker shows the pixel as loaded and as it looks on screen with your edits: right-click switches between the two, a click copies the value, and the scroll wheel changes the format: Hex, RGB, RGB float, linear RGB, HSV, CSS rgb or CSS hsl. For one-handed use, a setting turns the key into a toggle.
Metadata
The properties panel shows the file details and the camera metadata. You can copy each value.
Apple Photos library
On a Mac, Zeiger opens your Apple Photos library, including photos stored in iCloud, once you allow access.
As much memory as you give it
Zeiger decodes the images around the current one ahead of time. The settings control the VRAM budget, the number of loader threads and how many images load ahead.
Everything has a key
These are the defaults. You can rebind every action in the settings, including the ones that have no default key.
- Previous / next image
- ←→
- First / last image
- HomeEnd
- Fit / Fill / 1:1 / Resize window
- 1234
- Pan
- WASD
- Zoom in / out
- QE
- Rotate left / right
- ,.
- Crop mode
- C
- Pixel grid
- G
- Color picker (hold)
- Alt
- Play / pause animation
- Space
- Copy image
- CtrlC
- Save
- CtrlS
- Save as
- CtrlShiftS
- Rename
- F2
- Delete
- Del
- Refresh folder
- F5
- Quit
- CtrlQ
Formats
Zeiger decodes these formats through FFmpeg and LibRaw, plus its own readers for DDS and BNG.
Common
- JPEG
- PNG
- WebP
- GIF
- AVIF
- HEIC / HEIF
- TIFF
- BMP
Graphics and HDR
- PSD
- OpenEXR
- Radiance HDR
- DDS
- TGA
- QOI
- JPEG 2000
- JPEG-LS
Other
- APNG
- BNG
- PCX
- PPM, PGM, PBM, PAM
- PFM, PHM
- SGI
- Sun Raster
- XBM, XPM, XWD
- WBMP
Camera raw
- DNG
- Canon CR3, CR2, CRW
- Nikon NEF, NRW
- Sony ARW, SR2, SRF
- Fujifilm RAF
- Panasonic RW2, RAW
- OM System / Olympus ORF
- Pentax PEF
- Leica RWL, RAW
- Samsung SRW
- Hasselblad 3FR, FFF
- Phase One IIQ
- Kodak DCR, KDC
- Minolta MRW
- Mamiya MEF
- Leaf MOS
- Epson ERF
All brand names are trademarks of their owners. Zeiger has no relation to these companies.
A gift from the Blick team
Zeiger is completely free, for both personal and commercial use. It runs on the same technology used to make Blick, our native video editor for Windows and macOS. Questions, bug reports and ideas for Zeiger are welcome on the Blick Discord.
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