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Lyn for Mac

Lightweight image browser and viewer.

$29.99
In English
3.5
Based on 49 user rates

Lyn overview

Lyn is a fast, lightweight image browser and viewer designed for photographers, graphic artists, and Web designers. Featuring an extremely versatile and aesthetically pleasing interface, it delivers an easy-to-use geotagging technology and a complete solution for sharing your photographs. The new editing inspector gives you everything to turn your shots into great photos. Adjust exposure, color temperature, brightness, and contrast, or reveal image details with highlight and shadow adjustments. You can experiment and convert your color photos to black and white, try a classic sepia tone, or add a vignette.

Lyn natively supports all popular image formats like JPEG, TIFF, JPEG 2000, PNG, PPM, TGA, RAW, HDR, OpenEXR, animated GIF, and any other image format supported by OS X. It also integrates a movie player to watch camera recordings.

Features:
  • Progressive display, on single- or multiple-monitor configurations, of images of virtually any size
  • Multi-threading to take advantage of multicore CPUs
  • Display color-corrected images and soft-proofing function
  • Compatible with High Dynamic-Range images like TIFF float as well as Radiance and OpenEXR
  • Common metadata parser: EXIF, Camera's makernote, GPS, GeoTIFF, IPCT
  • Image navigation with Apple Remote Control or Magic Trackpad
  • User-switchable thumbnails cache
  • Filtering by tags and metadata
  • Fullscreen and slideshow with music
  • Full IPTC editing with user-defined presets
  • Batch operations: convert and rename
  • User-defined places
  • Non-destructive editing
  • Editing inspector with filters and effects: temperature and tint, exposure, brightness, contrast, highlight, and shadow. Black and white, sepia tone, and vignette
  • Easily browse your iPhoto, Aperture, and Lightroom libraries
  • Facebook, Flickr, Dropbox, SmugMug, 500px, and Picasa Web Albums sharing
  • Maps layout: geotag your photographs and edit locations with a simple drag and drop
  • Integrated QuickTime video player

What’s new in version 2.3.7

  • Fixed display box when viewing pdf images.
  • Fixed a crop area selection issue with zoom enabled.
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Lyn for Mac

$29.99
In English
Version 2.3.7
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What needs improvements

Support
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Lyn qualities

Value
4.0
Ease of use
4.0
Features
3.5
Reliability
3.0
Customer support
3.0

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3.5

(62 Reviews of Lyn)

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MaurizioL
MaurizioL
Jul 20 2024
2.3.7
0.0
Jul 20 2024
0.0
Version: 2.3.7
30 US$? Too much.
zlazkow
zlazkow
Jul 11 2023
2.2.1
5.0
Jul 11 2023
5.0
Version: 2.2.1
Version 2.3.1 on developer's website. MU please UPDATE!
Afmac
Afmac
Jul 17 2021
2.0.11
0.0
Jul 17 2021
0.0
Version: 2.0.11
Lyn 2. is fantastic! much faster than the previous version.
Drtyrell969
Drtyrell969
Sep 18 2020
1.13
3.0
Sep 18 2020
3.0
Version: 1.13
Does not open in Big Sur Beta 20A5374g. Gotta make sure it's ready before release.
leton53
leton53
Aug 15 2020
1.13
2.0
Aug 15 2020
2.0
Version: 1.13
Slow, confusing commands, could be a step over ViewIt 2.36 (too bad given up and lacking of some developing). Does not follow Mac specs, shortcuts don't happen, all on menu bar only, poor diashow implement, no bulk selection, no reliable renaming, no K4 support, slowing system down ... :-(
zlazkow
zlazkow
Jan 27 2024
2.3.7
5.0
Jan 27 2024
5.0
Version: 2.3.7
The_Blinded
The_Blinded
Dec 4 2022
2.2
5.0
Dec 4 2022
5.0
Version: 2.2
WetNet
WetNet
Jul 15 2021
2.0.11
1.0
Jul 15 2021
1.0
Version: 2.0.11
Drtyrell969
Drtyrell969
Sep 18 2020
3.0
Sep 18 2020
3.0
Version: null
leton53
leton53
Aug 15 2020
2.0
Aug 15 2020
2.0
Version: null
hbanks379
hbanks379
May 10 2020
1.0
May 10 2020
1.0
Version: null
ferrit005
ferrit005
Mar 1 2020
2.0
Mar 1 2020
2.0
Version: null
Ulyssesric
Ulyssesric
Oct 15 2019
2.0
Oct 15 2019
2.0
Version: null
silverlaker
silverlaker
Oct 12 2019
3.0
Oct 12 2019
3.0
Version: null
zaramella-mario
zaramella-mario
Jun 2 2019
4.5
Jun 2 2019
4.5
Version: null
dcnyc10
dcnyc10
Mar 21 2019
3.0
Mar 21 2019
3.0
Version: null
Uncoy
Uncoy
Sep 26 2018
3.0
Sep 26 2018
3.0
Version: null
firewall00110
firewall00110
Jan 1 2018
0.5
Jan 1 2018
0.5
Version: null
Zx81
Zx81
Jan 1 2018
5.0
Jan 1 2018
5.0
Version: null
Igor-Freiberger
Igor-Freiberger
Dec 20 2017
3.5
Dec 20 2017
3.5
Version: null
Tommy-Gun
Tommy-Gun
Nov 6 2016
4.0
Nov 6 2016
4.0
Version: null
philip-baxter
philip-baxter
Apr 17 2016
2.5
Apr 17 2016
2.5
Version: null
bohdanz-1
bohdanz-1
Dec 20 2015
0.5
Dec 20 2015
0.5
Version: null
Filp
Filp
Sep 22 2015
5.0
Sep 22 2015
5.0
Version: null
fncurtis
fncurtis
Jan 24 2015
5.0
Jan 24 2015
5.0
Version: null
Drdul
Drdul
Jul 18 2014
4.5
Jul 18 2014
4.5
Version: null
Srupp
Srupp
Dec 3 2013
4.0
Dec 3 2013
4.0
Version: null
Jazzyguy
Jazzyguy
Oct 3 2013
5.0
Oct 3 2013
5.0
Version: null
dsimer
dsimer
Sep 11 2013
3.5
Sep 11 2013
3.5
Version: null
Sausalitodog
Sausalitodog
Jul 21 2013
5.0
Jul 21 2013
5.0
Version: null
Anguka
Anguka
Jun 21 2013
3.5
Jun 21 2013
3.5
Version: null
Grayson-Manley
Grayson-Manley
Jun 11 2013
5.0
Jun 11 2013
5.0
Version: null
CoolSwitcher
CoolSwitcher
Mar 26 2013
3.0
Mar 26 2013
3.0
Version: null
jackout
jackout
Feb 16 2013
4.0
Feb 16 2013
4.0
Version: null
Andrew8042
Andrew8042
Dec 12 2012
3.5
Dec 12 2012
3.5
Version: null
hans789
hans789
Oct 2 2012
2.5
Oct 2 2012
2.5
Version: null
mwab
mwab
Jul 23 2012
5.0
Jul 23 2012
5.0
Version: null
Adison-wu-Rama
Adison-wu-Rama
Jun 18 2012
3.0
Jun 18 2012
3.0
Version: null
Greedyfranky
Greedyfranky
Apr 30 2012
4.0
Apr 30 2012
4.0
Version: null
anonymous-tapir-4715
anonymous-tapir-4715
Feb 25 2012
4.5
Feb 25 2012
4.5
Version: null
onamac
onamac
Jan 30 2012
5.0
Jan 30 2012
5.0
Version: null
PeterCa
PeterCa
Jan 15 2012
5.0
Jan 15 2012
5.0
Version: null
Helangen
Helangen
Aug 6 2011
5.0
Aug 6 2011
5.0
Version: null
Dlwhite
Dlwhite
May 11 2011
3.5
May 11 2011
3.5
Version: null
Tomeko
Tomeko
May 9 2011
5.0
May 9 2011
5.0
Version: null