InstantRAWDownload ↓See your RAWs instantly.
A tiny native macOS viewer that puts full-resolution RAW files on screen as fast as you can press the arrow key — straight off the card, the NAS, or the disk. Cull a whole shoot without waiting once.
I shoot a lot, and after every shoot I’d sit down to cull a few thousand RAW files — and spend half the evening watching preview spinners. Lightroom was sluggish, Finder couldn’t keep up, and every “fast culling” app wanted a subscription. So I wrote the viewer I actually wanted: open a folder, see the first frame at full resolution before your finger leaves the trackpad, and arrow through the rest like they’re JPEGs. It does one thing. I use it every week — figured other photographers might too.
The real file, not a proxy
The camera’s embedded preview lands in milliseconds while a full GPU demosaic renders behind it — locked to the same geometry, so nothing shifts or reflows when it swaps. Zoom to 100% and you are on real sensor data.
Fast off a card, fast off a NAS
It times your volume instead of guessing at it. A slow card gets copied ahead of you in the background; a 10 GbE NAS gets read flat out. The copies survive quitting, so the same card is never read twice.
Cull without the mouse
Arrow through the shoot, X to mark, ⌘⌫ to send every marked frame to the Trash — recoverable in Finder if you change your mind. B lists the whole set so you always know where you are.
RAW + JPEG, sorted out
Shooting both formats leaves two files of every frame. Same-named files are folded together and you pick which one you see — and binning a frame takes its hidden twin along, so you never cull a RAW and leave the JPEG behind.
Histogram & EXIF
An RGB histogram scaled so a warm frame does not draw as a blue one, plus shutter, aperture, ISO, lens and resolution. One keystroke each, straight over the photo.
Native, tiny, no dependencies
Built for Apple Silicon — a 1.3 MB download, no Electron, no frameworks to install, no background daemon. Every RAW mount your Mac knows how to read, asked of the system at launch rather than kept in a list: ARW, CR2, CR3, NEF, RAF, ORF, RW2, DNG and the rest, plus JPEG, HEIF, AVIF, PNG and TIFF.
Free for a day. Then €5, once.
The trial is the full app for 24 hours. If it earns a place in your workflow, €5 buys a licence for every 1.x release — no subscription, no account, no renewal. Your key is signed and checked on your own Mac, so the app never phones home, and nothing about you is stored here: if you lose the key it gets rebuilt from the payment record rather than looked up in a database, because there isn’t one.
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