What's new in Phiewer 5.0.2
Apr 1, 2024
- Added support for .webm video files
New in Phiewer 5.0.1 (Jan 29, 2024)
- Improved performance: Thumbnail generation now skips unnecessary delays during file deletion, resulting in faster reindexing after deletion.
- Bugfix: Addressed deletion issues on NAS and external drives by implementing a direct delete method, eliminating reliance on the trash folder.
- Phiewer now performs a hard delete when removing files, bypassing the trash. Deleted files will not be moved to the trash folder anymore. Please exercise caution when deleting to avoid data loss !
New in Phiewer 5.0.0 (Jan 5, 2024)
- Universal Binary Support:
- Phiewer is now available as a universal binary, running natively on both Intel and ARM-based processors for optimized performance.
- Default Left Panel:
- The left panel will now open by default on the first startup or if manually reset, providing a more intuitive user experience.
- Bugfix: Special Characters in Filenames:
- Fixed an issue where adjustments, effects, and filtering were not working properly when filenames contained special characters like "#" or "?".
- Bugfix: Thumbs Display Issue:
- Resolved a bug where thumbnails were not displayed when the folder name contained special characters like "#" or "?".
New in Phiewer 4.0.0 (Dec 14, 2023)
- Favorites Functionality: Now you can mark your favorites with a shortcut or in the menus and filter for your favorites in the thumbs section to display your favorite images easily.
- Always Loop Videos: Added a settings option to automatically loop videos.
- Hide Recent Locations: Customize your experience with the ability to hide Recent Locations from the Startup Screen.
- Visual Fixes: Resolved issues including a cut background image on Startup Screen and corrected website links in the main menu.
- Improved Exposé View: Addressed a bug where the Exposé view became unscrollable after exporting a viewport image.
- Library Updates and System Requirements: Set the minimum OS version to 10.13 for enhanced compatibility.
New in Phiewer 3.5.0 (Nov 16, 2023)
- Now you can effortlessly export the complete Exposé as a single image.
- Additionally, enjoy the flexibility of exporting your current viewport as an image, complete with a beautiful backdrop ambience or even videos.
New in Phiewer 3.4.0 (Nov 16, 2023)
- In this update, we've squashed pesky bugs, spruced up our library, and introduced a fresh new app icon for an even better Phiewer experience.
New in Phiewer 3.3.0 (Nov 6, 2023)
- In this update, we've squashed pesky bugs, spruced up our library, and introduced a fresh new app icon for an even better Phiewer experience.
New in Phiewer 3.2.2 (Feb 21, 2023)
- Improved compatibility with older OS versions through updated libraries.
New in Phiewer 3.2.1 (Feb 19, 2023)
- Library updates have been included to fix some issues with specific raw files
- Minor bug fixes
New in Phiewer 3.2.0 (Feb 15, 2021)
- Layout, color and menu text changes
- Added more present spinner and loading animations on load/refresh/reindex thumbs cache
- Fixed a bug to adjust video time display
New in Phiewer 3.1.1 (Feb 7, 2021)
- Bug fixes and performance improvements
New in Phiewer 3.1.0 (Feb 4, 2021)
- This update contains a new app layout called "Zen-Style": With Zen-Style you can completely focus on your media files. No titlebar or controls are disturbing your view. With the nice background ambience effect turned on Zen-Style fills the full window edge to edge.
- Way better heic/heif images, hevc video and Apple Live Photos handling.
- Images and videos directly imported from iPhone are now decoded, cached and displayed correctly
- Minor bugfixes and improvements
New in Phiewer 3.0.0 (Jan 25, 2021)
- A major update with a brand new look
- All new design, icons and window layout adapted to MacOS Big Sur
- New startscreen layout
- New app icon unified with Phiewer PRO version
- Upgraded latest libraries under the hood to prepare for forthcoming ARM architecture builds
- Bugfix: Video thumbs are now displayed correctly
- Bugfix: Removed animation glitches in Slideshow in Zoom and Pan mode
New in Phiewer 2.1.2 (Dec 29, 2020)
- Added support for .webp files
New in Phiewer 2.1.1 (Oct 5, 2020)
- Bugfixes and performance improvements
- Preparation for the forthcoming MacOS
New in Phiewer 2.1.0 (Jul 7, 2020)
- Phiewer is now in sync with macOS. File changes like deleting, creating, moving or renaming in your filesystem will automatically update Phiewer in the background
- New app icon
New in Phiewer 2.0.5 (Jun 8, 2020)
- Fixed a bug that some thumbnails with special characters in the filename were not displayed
New in Phiewer 2.0.4 (Oct 21, 2019)
- Fixes and changes for MacOS Catalina
- New App Icon
New in Phiewer 2.0.3 (Jun 24, 2019)
- Downloadable version is not “unsandboxed” any more. MacOS Catalina will not allow unsandboxed workflows anymore 🙁
- decreased doubleclick zoom value
- Fixed geolocation link in EXIF data
New in Phiewer 2.0.1 (Jun 24, 2019)
- Don’t show hidden files
- Don’t navigate when typing a number into slidshow interval field
- Framework uprade
- Added window open mainmenu function
New in Phiewer 2.0.0 (Feb 15, 2019)
- Seamless MacOS Mojave dark / light mode integration. Improved file dialogs and system windows display.
- Fixed fullscreen background mode
- Deleted some SlideShow songs for less storage usage
- Improved window behaviour. Keep content on reopen
New in Phiewer 1.9.3 (Jan 21, 2019)
- Style and positioning fixes for the main image viewport
- Improved fullscreen shortcut behaviour
- Fixed settings for doubleclick behaviour
New in Phiewer 1.9.2 (Dec 10, 2018)
- Fixed a bug that causes a “jumping” transition in the slideshow
- Changed slideshow default music
New in Phiewer 1.9.1 (Dec 10, 2018)
- Fixed a bug when Phiewer stops loading caused by case sensitive APFS
New in Phiewer 1.9.0 (Jul 13, 2018)
- Added .svg file support
- Added aperture information to EXIF data
- Thumbs getting cached and preloaded now for better performance. Opened folders with large number of images and images with big filesize have increased scrolling performance
- Thumbs section displays now current folder path when info icon is clicked
- Changed window design
- Bugfix: glitch on settings checkboxes removed
- Improved panel drag performance
- Backend framework updates
New in Phiewer 1.8.2 (Mar 17, 2018)
- Remember sandboxed folders permissions with security scoped bookmarks. "Allow to open folder" dialog will only appear once per folder.
- Improved App starting performance.
- Fixed a bug when "Open with..." dialog sometimes displays not the requested image. Also for dragging files to the App or Dock icon.
- Changed closing and opening behaviour. App stays active in background on close.
New in Phiewer 1.8.1 (Jan 24, 2018)
- Added error logging
- Added system tab in preferences (splitted settings tab content)
- Enabling Access to files in Standard Location Pictures
New in Phiewer 1.8.0 (Jan 11, 2018)
- COMMON:
- Add selected image as desktop wallpaper
- UX:
- Customized panel width gets saved for opening Phiewer PRO the next time
- Customized thumb size gets saved for opening Phiewer PRO the next time
- Customized window size gets saved for opening Phiewer PRO the next time
- ZOOMING:
- Added context menu for zooming to -> 100%, 200%…
- Added Zoom with mouse-wheel while holding CMD key to mouse pointer position
- Added zoom value display
- Added zoom controls now with CMD key
- Added cursor change to draggable when zoomed in
- SETTINGS:
- Enable/disable mouse-wheel scroll behavior in settings (better usage for Touchpad / Magic Mouse)
- Enable/disable swipe behavior for prev next navigation (better usage for Touchpad / Magic Mouse)
- Selectable double click behavior for full-screen or zoom in/out in
- BUGS:
- Fixed a bug: the setting in the preference pane transition “none” gets now saved correctly
New in Phiewer 1.7.0 (Nov 7, 2017)
- Added Touchbar support for MacBook Pro
- Added black background for videos in fullscreen mode for real cinema feeling :-)
- Added a main menu option "Always stay on top"
- Added a settings options "Show filename" with customization
- Added functionality for the mousewheel to scroll through images
- Added an index based quicknav. Now you can enter a number to quick navigate to this image
- Added scaling mode to the controls. Now you can manually scale your image in the viewport
- Added settings options for browsing transitions. Now you can customize the effect for switching between images.
- Added context menu functionality "Show in Finder"
- Fixed Slideshow zoom effect "Zoom & Pan" with bigger interval numbers
- Fixed a bug to keep the thumb size after deleting or refreshing the thumbs list
New in Phiewer 1.6.7 (Oct 2, 2017)
- Added HEIF / HEIC image format support for MacOS High Sierra
- Fixed direct open image bug with a camel capse file name
- New Setting for deleting audio encoded cached files on app quit
- New Setting for deleting raw image cached files on app quit
- Clear ac3 / dts audio cache on reset in Settings
- Display remaining time on audio codec conversion
- Ability to cancel audio codec conversion
- Fixed open file dialog while decoded video with backdrop ambience is playing
New in Phiewer 1.6.6 (Sep 25, 2017)
- Added support for all common audio codecs on video files like mp4 and mkv that are encoded with ac3 or dts
- Fixed name sorting A-Z and Z-A. Now name sorting behaves naturally like on MacOS
- Prevent text and image drag and drop inside the app
- Minor bug fixes
New in Phiewer 1.6.5 (Sep 7, 2017)
- Added resize function to thumbs section
- Replaced upselling sections with banner at the panel bottom
New in Phiewer 1.6.4 (Aug 29, 2017)
- Layout changes on light theme
- Fixed supported languages
- Added Phiewer PRO tab to preferences
New in Phiewer 1.6.3 (Aug 16, 2017)
- Fixed a bug when delete key is pressed inside a textfield then current image will not be deleted
- Small UI tweaks, color changes and fixes
- Added AppStore Links to PRO version
New in Phiewer 1.6.2 (Jul 22, 2017)
- Rearranged panel sections
- Panel section contents are now behaving responsively
New in Phiewer 1.6.0 (Jul 17, 2017)
- Complete UI window redesign (themed titlebar)
- Added global sorting functionality to thumbnails in panel
- Added "open file" functionality to thumb buttons
- Fixed a bug to adjust the thumbnails container height on toggling the image meta info in the panel correctly
- Added preferences section to main menu:
- Settings and Credits moved to preferences
- Added "Delete recent locations" to settings
- Added "Reset contents & settings" to settings
- Added "Double click opens fullscreen" to settings
New in Phiewer 1.5.4 (Jul 4, 2017)
- Fixed a bug in the context menu when deleting files with special chars in the filename
- Fixed a bug when scrolling thumbs section or the detail panel with trackpad swipe gestures
New in Phiewer 1.5.3 (Jun 30, 2017)
- Added trackpad swipe gestures to navigate through files
- Added context menu on right click
- Minor bug fixes
New in Phiewer 1.5.2 (Jun 27, 2017)
- Deleting files is now possible via keyboard shortcuts, menu or a delete-button
- Added advanced Slideshow scaling options
- Now the panel opened state get saved and restored for next time you start Phiewer
- Added thumbs-reload-button to keep items in sync with the filesystem
New in Phiewer 1.5.1 (Jun 23, 2017)
- Added music playing animation to slideshow
- Added “scale to fit fullscreen” option to slideshow for displaying smaller images
New in Phiewer 1.5.0 (Jun 21, 2017)
- Added Multimedia Slideshow.
- Just hit the Slideshow play button in the new panel section to view your media folders automated with nice transition effects and background music. You can set the interval speed of each slide, choose transition effects and select your music from really cool handpicked background tracks. There is also the possibility to select your own music from your hard drive.
- Setting the Slideshow to loop and you will have endless running Memories. You can even play videos and audio mixed within your Slideshow and the music gets automatically dimmed or muted for a nice Media Center like entertainment experience.
- Added recent locations. Now you have quick access to your recent browsed folders on the Phiewer startscreen
- Redesigned controls
- Added Credits to the main menu
- Moved the shortcuts section to the main menu to open in an extra window
- Minor layout improvements
- Minor Bug fixes
New in Phiewer 1.4.1 (Jun 8, 2017)
- Performance improvements
- Optimized filesize and app packaging
- Minor bug fixes
New in Phiewer 1.3.1 (May 28, 2017)
- Added theme design and theme switching function for dark mode and light mode
- Added slider to adjust thumbnail size
- Added file names to thumbs with switching on/off function
- Added thumbs Item count
- Clustered all panel sections in toggle containers
- Added animation to app startscreen
- Added support section to menu dialog: Subscribe, Visit support website, Visit phiewer.com
- Added quicktip texts to some icons
- Fixed a bug to prevent opening fullscreen when double clicking on audio controls
- Added new shortcuts for toggle thumbs & settings
- Added shortcut support for numpad keys
- Several UI design improvements and bugfixes
New in Phiewer 1.2.1 (May 15, 2017)
- Fixed a bug when opening a file to keep selected file after "Allow to open folder" dialog
New in Phiewer 1.2.0 (May 12, 2017)
- Advanced Audio Player with waveform display and direct controls
- Added .mkv to supported video formats
- Enabled drag and drop support for folders
- Video thumbnails improvements and fixes
- Precise error messages
- Files- and foldernames with special chars like brackets are now supported
- Performance improvements
- Minor Bugfixes
New in Phiewer 1.1.1 (May 10, 2017)
- Added thumbnails
- Added zoom functionality
- Added additional shortcuts
- Minor Bug fixes