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by netdcy 674 days ago
Introducing our open-source, free waterfall-style image browser designed exclusively for macOS. Prioritizing privacy with no network connections, this app ensures your data stays local while offering a visually stunning and highly performant experience.

Key Features:

- Open Source & Privacy-Focused: No network connections, safeguarding your privacy.

- Adaptive Layout: Enjoy a beautiful waterfall/adaptive layout with both light and dark themes, providing an immersive image viewing experience.

- Easy File Management: Seamlessly manage files with operations akin to Finder.

- Intuitive Navigation: Right-click gestures and quick navigation to the next/previous folder with images/videos – perfect for rapid bulk image browsing.

- Performance Optimized: Engineered for smooth performance with large image libraries(10,000+ Images).

- Multithreading Thumbnails: Generate thumbnails on-the-fly without waiting too long.

- High-Quality Image Scaling: Superior image scaling to reduce moiré patterns and other artifacts.

- Video Thumbnails: Support for video thumbnails, seamlessly integrating images and videos.

[GitHub Repository Link] https://github.com/netdcy/FlowVision

2 comments

This is really nice! "Waterfall-style" doesn't mean anything, though. What are you actually referring to?

The lack of a simple, efficient image browser on Mac (or Windows, for that matter) has been a daily annoyance. This thing browses efficiently, lets you move files, and doesn't try to build a "database" that you have to maintain. Good job!

Are there build instructions anywhere? I don't know how to resolve the missing frameworks. I tried cloning the project recursively, but this didn't add anything.

Thank you. I will provide more detailed build steps later. Currently, it's not implemented via git submodules; you need to manually download the relevant dependencies to the specified location.
Thanks!

Oh yeah, one issue I noticed is that there's no Back button on the full-screen view, so there's no indication of how to get back to the gallery view.

This is great! Already installed on two laptops. Finder is frustrating, to say the least.

Of course feature request time: some kind of search? Would be really nice to match against folder names (e.g. searching for "images" and filenames e.g. "logo")

Thank you for your suggestion. Yes, I am planning to add a search function in the future.