Preview Alternatives for Mac

There are many alternatives to Preview for Mac if you are looking for a replacement. The best Mac alternative is XnView MP. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try XnView MP or nomacs. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Preview and loads of them are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to Preview are qView, PicView, PDF Expert and Qoppa PDF Studio.

Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard
Preview alternatives page was last updated

Alternatives list

  1. Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    Besides exceptionally fast launching and displaying speed, Gaaiho Reader is reliable in printing, filling forms annotating documents and adding bookmarks.

    81 Right PDF Reader alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Mac
     
  2. NX Studio icon
     4 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    NX Studio is a computer software that allows users to enjoy the viewing, processing, and editing of still images and video, and provides more intuitive operation.

    152 NX Studio alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  3. Oculante icon
     4 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    A no-nonsense hardware-accelerated image viewer. Oculante's vision is to be a fast, unobtrusive, portable image viewer with wide image format support, offering image analysis and basic editing tools.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • FreeBSD
    • BSD
    • NetBSD
     
  4. Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    Fragment is an image viewer with cool features like: Upload and Share, HUD User Interface, Peeking and Skimming, Animated GIFs, History, Thumbnails, Fill View and it is fast!

    Features:

    • Lightweight;
    • Fast startup, image loading and on-screen navigation, using OpenGL;
    • Uniqu.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. Lenscape icon
     Like
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    Lenscape is a macOS photo viewer software optimized for Apple Silicon. It allows users to view, manage, and customize their photos and videos in various modes like gallery, full screen, or thumbnail. Users can also select photos and videos to move, copy, trash, or share them.

    61 Lenscape alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  6. Vipsdisp icon
     3 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    Vipsdisp can display huge (many, many gigabyte) images quickly and without using much memory. As well as the usual PNG, JPG, TIF, PDF, SVG, WEBP, JP2, JXL and GIF, it supports many scientific and technical image formats, including SVS, MRXS, OpenEXR, FITS, Matlab, NIfTI...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Mac
    • Homebrew
     
  7. Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    In version 8, Google Chrome introduced a free PDF viewer, installed by default. While this plug-in lacks many features of the Adobe Acrobat Plug-in, it is much faster and lighter, and updates with the browser rather than an external utility.

    74 Chrome PDF Viewer Plug-in alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Google Chrome
     
  8. Pixea icon
     3 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    Pixea is an image viewer for macOS with a nice minimal modern user interface. Pixea works great with JPEG, HEIC, PSD, RAW, WEBP, PNG, GIF, and many other formats.

    8 Pixea alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
    |
    1
    Comments about Pixea as an Alternative to Preview
    Guest
    Positive
    0

    You are able to switch between images, great settings, very fast and lightweight.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Preview Icon
    Pixea icon
    • Pixea is Freemium and ProprietaryPreview is Free and Proprietary
  9. PhotoPad icon
     8 likes
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    PhotoPad picture editor is the fastest and most fun way to edit your digital photos. PhotoPad is one of the most stable, easy-to-use, and comprehensive photo editors available.

    108 PhotoPad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • Kindle Fire
     
  10. Viso icon
     1 like
    Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    Viso is a beautiful minimal image viewer for MacOS. Features a non intrusive UI that allows you to get the most viewing experience out of your images.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
You are at page 2 of Preview alternatives