I released a ridiculously small image viewer for the Mac

Everything below this is just me rambling.

I cannot stand the image viewer that ships with the Mac.

Nothing about it feels intuitive, and coming from Windows at the time, I found it genuinely hard to live with.

So I went looking, found an app called qView, and used it for years.

qView is a good app. It handles perfectly well, and it looks sharp too.

Wanting anything more out of an image viewer is probably the weirder position to take, so for a long time I had nothing real to complain about.

But little things did start piling up.

Launch is just slightly slow, and it looks like that is baked into how it is built
The app itself is over 120MB, which is not small
It preloads the next and previous files, which gets heavy on a cloud drive because it pulls down images you never look at
The name never sat right with me — lower camel, come on…

So I built my own.

Claude Code wrote all of it. Smart thing.

The latest version right now is 0.3.3. The app is 1.6MB, launch is noticeably faster, and I am happy with it.

The trade-off is that it does very little. There may not even be a rough edge for it to smooth over.

That is the balance to keep an eye on, so I plan to keep moving carefully from here.