LilyView is a program that comes as an alternative to using Mac's Preview application for opening pictures on your computer. The utility works with a wide variety of image formats, supports drag-and-drop actions, and lets you choose between multiple view modes.
You can import folders containing images or single files. Simply drag-and-drop them over the app's interface and you can start browsing your image collection within moments. The app lets you use your trackpad or arrow keys to head to the next picture, toggle fullscreen mode anytime you like, and even rotate the imported photos.
LilyView also provides you with a quick way to print photos. Just hit the Command+P keys, configuring the printing settings according to your needs, and that's it.
Still, many of the aforementioned flaws can also be found in Mac's Preview tool (which comes by default with the OS) and many other utilities which are free.
In my opinion, you should first test the program on your Mac and then decide if it's worth buying its full version or not. Personally, I prefer using Preview as it offers me all of the advantages I need from an image viewer.
v1.0 [Apr 11, 2013]
- Open current image in an external editor (File > Open in Editor).
- Print images (File > Print…).
- New zoom commands: Command+2 for 200%, Command+4 for 50%.
- New mode for the Automatic Zoom: Keep Zoom Level.
- The option to quit LilyView when its main window is closed.
- Looped navigation through images in a folder (swipe or press left/right arrow twice when reached a folder end).
- Two-finger swipe now used for navigating through images regardless of the system's swipe settings.
- Removed Escape key shortcut to open Finder (use File > Show in Finder menu command instead).
- Preferences split into two tabs.
- Updated image sorting algorithm.
- Improved RAW image handling.
- Fixed UI freezing while browsing folders with very many images.
- Optimized reading folder content (was slow with large folders on OSX Mavericks).
- Improved handling of images over 8000x8000 px on OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion.
- Fixed blurring large images at 100% zoom.
- Fixed deleting images in OSX 10.7 Lion.
- Images that could not be loaded now show "broken image" icon.
- Fixed fullscreen mode on multiple displays.
- Fixed the bug with resetting image file associations back to Preview.
- Fixed bezel icons displayed on the last image of the folder.
- Minor bug fixes and tweaks.
