Our world consists of many beautiful places, natural phenomena, architectural buildings, and people. To enjoy the bright moments fully, you need a quality application. qView is a prime example of such an application. This is a multiplatform program also available for Mac. It is well-known for its excellent minimalistic design, but that is not its only advantage. We will tell you about its other benefits.

What is this program?

qView for Mac is an image viewer. It supports many picture formats, such as JPEG, BMP, WBMP, TIFF, GIF, and ICO, and opens them quickly and can be associated with files. In addition to viewing, qView can modify images slightly, for example, rotate them in different directions, mirror them, etc. The program also includes a zoom function.

Primary features

• Support for all popular image formats;

• Support for animated GIF files with speed up/slow down motion;

• Operations with images: rotation and vertical/horizontal reflection;

• The ability to run a slideshow;

• File history;

• Multi-threaded image loading to speed up the process of displaying the following files and eliminate delays in the interface when switching between images;

• Hotkey support;

• Zoom in/out with the mouse wheel;

• Viewing images to scale them with mouse movement;

• System of caching and proactive image loading to significantly reduce the time of displaying the following file.

Additional features

qView for Mac supports slide shows. It shows all pictures from the same folder at a set time interval. Additional features include:

• It renames the file.

• It displays information about the image.

• It saves a frame from an animation.

qView can be associated with images – the picture will be immediately opened in the program. The opening time of the photo is reduced due to caching and preloading. You can specify additional viewer options in the settings, such as background color, autoscale, hotkeys, and more.

The program uses bilinear filtering and image scaling, and they are preset, but you can switch them if you need. The default zoom level and the scaling and resizing behavior can also be customizable to some extent.