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Xee³ for Mac

Image viewer and browser.

$3.99
In English
Version 3.5.4
4.2
Based on 83 user rates

Xee³ overview

Xee³ is a lightweight, fast and convenient image viewer and browser. It is designed to be a serious tool for image viewing and management, with a sleek and powerful interface.

Xee³ is useful as a more powerful replacement for Preview, or most any other image viewer available on OS X. It is very fast, and uses less memory than most other image viewing tools. It also uses OpenGL to display and scroll images much more smoothly than other viewers. Its interface is highly streamlined and has easily configurable keyboard shortcuts.

Xee³ can:
  • Display a large number of image formats - any format QuickTime or Preview can open, plus several more, including PCX, Maya IFF, and Amiga IFF-ILBM.
  • Easy browse through folders of images - open any file in a folder and use the toolbar, keyboard shortcuts or mouse wheel to view the other images in the same folder.
  • Browse image inside archives, using the uncompression engine from The Unarchiver. It can read almost every format The Unarchiver can, which includes ZIP, RAR, 7-Zip, LZH and StuffIt. It also supports the CBZ and CBR formats, which are just renamed ZIP and RAR files, respectively.
  • Effortlessly copy, move, rename and delete of images while viewing.
  • Losslessy rotate and crop JPEG images. This lets you edit your digital photographs without losing quality by re-compressing them like most other editors do.
  • View more EXIF data for JPEG files than Preview, and also other kinds of metadata, like XMP or IPTC. It can even try to identify what program or camera created a JPEG file by analyzing its quantization tables.
  • Extract bitmap images from inside PDF and SWF files. Many PDF files contain scanned pages in bitmap form, and Xee³ can read these and show them as bitmap image, and even save them. The same goes for bitmap images inside SWF files.
  • View images in full-screen.

What’s new in version 3.5.4

Version 3.5.3 (3.5.4):

Note: The downloadable demo is version 3.5.4; the version available for purchase on the Mac App Store is version 3.5.3.

  • Activation issue fixed

Xee³ for Mac

$3.99
In English
Version 3.5.4
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4.2

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zlazkow
zlazkow
Dec 10 2022
3.5.4
0.0
Dec 10 2022
0.0
Version: 3.5.4
No updates since Dec.2021 ?!. Developer's website is called 'theunarchiver.com' with 3 applications. I think TheUnarchiver is the main application...so Xee3 is semi-abandoned I guess..
Just-Annutha-Dewd
Just-Annutha-Dewd
Dec 31 2021
3.5.4
0.0
Dec 31 2021
0.0
Version: 3.5.4
Well praise the gods. We've finally seen an update to Xee³. It addresses a minor bug that creeped with Big Sur, possibly Catalina, where deleting an image from within the browser wouldn't be reflected in the browser yet. What they DIDN'T do was make it a Universal binary, nor add proper Dark Mode support. Well yes, you can change it to a "black" window style yourself in the app's preferences, but it won't automatically adapt to the system's preferences. That's.... less than ideal. Otherwise, I still love this app. It has long been, by far, the fastest and most "minimal" image viewing apps for the Mac that I have yet to see a truly comparable replacement for. And believe me, I've been looking. It's good to see it hasn't been COMPLETELY abandoned, and hopefully we'll see a proper update soon that brings it fully up to speed for the modern macOS.
pedrwb1
pedrwb1
Oct 5 2020
3.5.3
0.0
Oct 5 2020
0.0
Version: 3.5.3
Very poor. I bought this to help catalogue my pictures but I use Affinity to edit my photos (I'm on a Mac) and Xee cannot recognise any Affinity edited pictures so cannot include them. I have wasted my money. Also I couldn't get it to display pictures in thumbnail form for quick looking.
csajok
csajok
Nov 11 2019
3.5.3
2.0
Nov 11 2019
2.0
Version: 3.5.3
It became very frustrating, almost useless!
Zx81
Zx81
Feb 21 2016
3.5.1
2.0
Feb 21 2016
2.0
Version: 3.5.1
I just purchased V3 of Xee but I am very disappointed ; it is actually very slow to load and read images.
The old free V2 of Xee is much faster.
This issue has been reported for quite a while to the dev. on his Bitbucket project (since 2013) but has not been fixed.
I think I wasted $3.99.
Afmac
Afmac
Jan 30 2022
3.5.4
1.0
Jan 30 2022
1.0
Version: 3.5.4
csajok
csajok
Nov 11 2019
2.0
Nov 11 2019
2.0
Version: null
Nomah5
Nomah5
Nov 9 2018
4.0
Nov 9 2018
4.0
Version: null
Swiss1
Swiss1
Jul 23 2016
3.5
Jul 23 2016
3.5
Version: null
Zx81
Zx81
Feb 21 2016
2.0
Feb 21 2016
2.0
Version: null
Freenergy
Freenergy
Jan 19 2016
4.5
Jan 19 2016
4.5
Version: null
Lusmu
Lusmu
Nov 20 2015
3.0
Nov 20 2015
3.0
Version: null
Waha-06x36
Waha-06x36
Oct 14 2015
5.0
Oct 14 2015
5.0
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kims955
kims955
Mar 11 2015
3.0
Mar 11 2015
3.0
Version: null
Ulyssesric
Ulyssesric
Jan 27 2015
3.0
Jan 27 2015
3.0
Version: null
zenon-leksgmail-com8171
Nov 10 2014
5.0
Version: null
Norz
Norz
Aug 16 2014
4.0
Aug 16 2014
4.0
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Crus13
Crus13
May 19 2014
1.0
May 19 2014
1.0
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Robk
Feb 23 2014
4.0
Feb 23 2014
4.0
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Feb 13 2014
5.0
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Andre-Posner
Jan 19 2014
1.0
Jan 19 2014
1.0
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Globalmouser
Nov 15 2013
5.0
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5.0
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Kgx
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5.0
Nov 15 2013
5.0
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Ervins Strauhmanis
Ervins Strauhmanis
Nov 14 2013
5.0
Nov 14 2013
5.0
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carbonbasedbiped
carbonbasedbiped
Oct 25 2013
3.5
Oct 25 2013
3.5
Version: null
phecasemanl3850
phecasemanl3850
Aug 6 2013
0.5
Aug 6 2013
0.5
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royaljerry
royaljerry
Jul 15 2013
4.0
Jul 15 2013
4.0
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Andrew8042
Andrew8042
Jun 27 2013
4.0
Jun 27 2013
4.0
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bedoui
Jun 19 2013
5.0
Jun 19 2013
5.0
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Dougster
Jun 10 2013
3.5
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3.5
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leoofborg
Jun 9 2013
5.0
Jun 9 2013
5.0
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Aetnaria
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5.0
Jun 2 2013
5.0
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laobai
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5.0
May 27 2013
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CarlosCambra6779
May 12 2013
5.0
May 12 2013
5.0
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madjeff
madjeff
Feb 10 2013
5.0
Feb 10 2013
5.0
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Portmantoe
Portmantoe
Oct 20 2012
5.0
Oct 20 2012
5.0
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Qurious
Qurious
Sep 30 2012
4.5
Sep 30 2012
4.5
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Tbrizitsky
Tbrizitsky
Aug 23 2012
5.0
Aug 23 2012
5.0
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Solvseus
Solvseus
Jul 29 2012
4.0
Jul 29 2012
4.0
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MacUpdate-Nick
MacUpdate-Nick
Jul 26 2012
5.0
Jul 26 2012
5.0
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darkan9el
darkan9el
Jun 25 2012
5.0
Jun 25 2012
5.0
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sutoro
sutoro
Jun 12 2012
4.0
Jun 12 2012
4.0
Version: null
ztheil
ztheil
Jun 12 2012
5.0
Jun 12 2012
5.0
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Surfspirit
Surfspirit
May 4 2012
4.5
May 4 2012
4.5
Version: null
ramon7
ramon7
Apr 30 2012
4.5
Apr 30 2012
4.5
Version: null