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

4.2

(97 Reviews of Xee³)

Comments
User Ratings

zlazkow

Dec 10, 2022

3.5.4

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

Dec 31, 2021

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

Oct 5, 2020

3.5.3

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

Nov 11, 2019

2.0

It became very frustrating, almost useless!

Zx81

Feb 21, 2016

3.5.1

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.