Northlight
An image viewer the way it used to feel. Open an image, scroll.
Download for macOSFeatures
Spin the wheel
Roll your mouse wheel to flip through every image in a folder, the way image viewers used to work. Hold ⌘ and scroll to zoom. Pinch on the trackpad if you've moved on.
Open an image — that's the library
No imports. No catalog. No "would you like to sync." Open any image and you're already browsing its folder. Sort by name, date, or size, and reverse it whenever you want.
Every format that matters
JPEG, PNG, HEIC, WebP, AVIF, JPEG XL, PSD — and camera RAW from Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fuji, Panasonic, Olympus, Pentax, Sigma, Hasselblad, Leica and more. One viewer for everything in the folder.
Quietly native
Built in AppKit for modern macOS. Light, quick, and yours — no account, no telemetry, no cloud. Just an app that opens images.
Northlight is free and we don't track anything. Files stay on your Mac. Built with passion for people who miss when looking at a folder of photos was a single click away.