When I saw that the developers behind DaisyDisk had a new app, I had to check it out. In case you don’t know, DaisyDisk is the best Mac app for visualizing the contents of your hard drive and deleting unwanted stuff.
The company behind DaisyDisk, Software Ambience, has released LilyView, a lightweight Preview replacement for the Mac.
“The point of LilyView is simple: elegant, efficient and fast,” reads the description. “There is no heavy photo library, no collection of “enhancing” filters. Most of time there is even no UI at all, just your images.”
Indeed, LilyView is about as simple as it gets. It’s an image viewer and that’s it. There are no options to crop, annotate, export, etc. like what Apple’s Preview offers in OS X. All of the big image filetypes are supported, including .tiff, .gif, RAW, and Photoshop documents.
Multitouch gestures allow you to swipe within a folder of images, snap to rotate, and pinch to zoom. LilyView is barebones now, but the developers hint that “it’s only the beginning” with version 1.0.
LilyView is available as a free demo on the app’s website. You can pay $5 for it on the Mac App Store.
Source: LilyView
