What's new in 3.2.0
New: BetterViewer desktop app for Windows, Linux and macOS (#98)
- The same viewer in its own window, to open the pictures on your computer.
- Right-click an image → Open with → BetterViewer, or make it your default image viewer (PNG, JPEG, WebP, GIF, AVIF, BMP, ICO). Drag and drop and Ctrl+O work too; opening another image reuses the same window.
- ← / → browse the other images of the folder; the image list (top right) shows them as thumbnails.
- Save with your system's Save dialog, F11 for full screen, and a clean title bar of its own.
- Everything from the browser version works: editing, annotations, OCR, background removal, QR codes, animations.
Animated GIFs play (#96)
- Animated GIF, WebP and APNG files now play instead of showing their first frame, with their own timing and looping.
- Long GIFs work too: frames are decoded as they're needed, so a GIF with thousands of frames starts playing right away.
- A frames bar under the image: play / pause (K), previous / next frame (, and .), a timeline to click or drag to any frame (hover it to preview a frame), and playback speed from 0.25× to 4×.
- The ⋯ menu on the frames bar copies the frame on screen, saves it as PNG, or keeps only that frame as a still image (undo brings the animation back).
Edit animations
- Crop, resize, straighten, rotate, flip, adjustments, curves and levels apply to every frame.
- Blur / pixelate zones hide whatever each frame shows there.
- Ctrl+S (and Save) on an animation saves an animated GIF with your edits and annotations, keeping its timing and looping. PNG, JPEG and WebP save the frame on screen.
- The navigator follows the animation, and Image info shows frames, duration, frame rate and looping.
- Background removal is for still images. On an animation, use Keep only this frame first.
Save original is easier to reach (#95)
- New shortcut Ctrl+Shift+S, a toolbar button (hide it like any other by right-clicking the toolbar), and Original file at the top of More → Save.
View original (#96)
- Now in the right-click menu for images opened from a web page, with a shortcut (Shift+O).
All shortcuts can be changed in Settings → Viewer → Keyboard shortcuts.
No new permissions in this version.
Install
- Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/betterviewer
- Chrome / Edge: Chrome Web Store (update in review)
- Web version: https://betterviewer.web.app/
- Manual install: download the zip for your browser below.
Desktop app (download below)
- Windows:
BetterViewer_3.2.0_x64-setup.exe(or the.msi) - Linux:
.deb(Debian, Ubuntu),.rpm(Fedora, openSUSE) or.AppImage(any distribution) - macOS:
BetterViewer_3.2.0_aarch64.dmg(Apple Silicon) orBetterViewer_3.2.0_x64.dmg(Intel)
The desktop installers aren't code-signed yet. On Windows, if SmartScreen warns, click More info → Run anyway. On macOS, allow the app once in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway.