Mirada 0.1.0, the first release
Mirada 0.1.0 is the first version: open a photo, look, arrow through its folder, close.
Download
From the release page: a DMG for macOS (Apple silicon and Intel), an MSI for Windows (x64), and a deb, rpm and tar.gz for Linux (x64 and ARM64). Each registers Mirada for the image types it opens. The builds are not signed yet: see Getting started for the one question each platform asks.
What it does
- Ten formats: JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, WebP, TIFF, PSD, HEIC, AVIF and JPEG XL, through libjpeg-turbo, libwebp, libheif and libjxl, built from source for each platform and bundled (3–4 MB): nothing to install, and the same versions everywhere.
- On screen in about an eighth of a second on Linux. Mirada is compiled ahead of time into a native executable on Linux, Windows and Apple silicon, and the first image decodes while the window is still being built. A 24-megapixel JPEG is up 170 ms after launch.
- The folder is the document. Opening a file opens its folder, in natural name order
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IMG_9beforeIMG_10), or by date or size. The images either side are ready before you step. - Upright, from the EXIF orientation, mirrored ones included; animated WebP, AVIF and JPEG XL play, as GIFs do.
- An editor (E): crop freely or to a shape, turn and flip, undo any step, and save a new JPEG, PNG, TIFF or BMP; a JPEG or PNG keeps the photo’s EXIF.
- A properties sidebar (I) with the file, the image and the camera, and every metadata tag.
- A thumbnail strip (T), a slideshow (F5), full screen, Rename (F2) and Move to Trash (Delete).
- Zoom and pan: the wheel zooms about the pointer, 0 fits and 1 is actual size, and Z keeps the zoom while you step through a burst.
- A command palette (Ctrl+Shift+P or F1), the same as Editora’s and Termina’s, and a Keyboard Shortcuts window (Ctrl+?).
- A window laid out as GNOME Image Viewer’s: a header bar in the title bar, floating controls that fade, light and dark themes that follow the system.
The full list is in the changelog.