EyeCanSee: photo and video viewer and manager for Linux and Windows

Download

Windows

The recommended way: the package is signed by Microsoft, so Windows shows no SmartScreen warning, and the Store keeps it up to date.

Or, from the latest release, the installer (-setup.exe, no administrator rights needed) or the zip to extract anywhere. Windows may warn you the first time: click More info, then Run anyway.

Fedora

Fedora 43 and later, from the COPR repository: updates arrive with the system ones.

sudo dnf copr enable iosonopiero/eyecansee
sudo dnf install eyecansee

HEIC photos also need libheif-freeworld from RPM Fusion.

Other Linux distributions

The .AppImage from the latest release: make it executable and run it, nothing else to install. It needs a distribution from 2022 or later.

For the applications menu, open it with Gear Lever. It keeps updating itself.

What it does

Browse everything the same way

Folders, external disks and USB sticks, SFTP, FTP and FTPS servers, Android phones and cameras over USB. No import and no database: open a folder and the photos are there.

Viewer

Zoom, preloading so moving between images never waits, photo details (camera, exposure, date, place on a map), videos with sound and a full-screen slideshow.

Copy between devices

Copy and move from the phone to a disk or a server and back, rename, delete with a trash on every device.

Convert

Images to JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, TIFF and more, many files at once; videos with FFmpeg, on the graphics card when it can, keeping the metadata and the GPS track of dashcams and drones.

Duplicates

Finds identical photos, videos and audio files in a folder and its subfolders, on any device, and always keeps at least one copy.

Formats

HEIC, AVIF, JPEG XL, PSD, Camera RAW from many brands, and rarer formats through ImageMagick. English and Italian, light and dark theme.

The numbers

A folder of 400 files on a POCO X7 Pro over USB, Fedora 44, cold caches.

0.07 sEyeCanSee lists the folder, after a 0.5 s open; first thumbnails within 0.8 s

9.3 sthe file manager (gvfs) just to list the names

5.5 → 0.40 sfolder listing in mtp-rs with my PR #45, measured by the maintainer on a Galaxy S23 Ultra (3248 photos)

2.8 → 0.24 sthe same on a Pixel 9 Pro XL

On Linux EyeCanSee talks to the phone directly over USB with mtp-rs, a pure Rust MTP library, instead of going through the file manager.

Screenshots

The grid: thumbnails of a folder, with the devices and the folder tree on the left — The grid, with devices and folders on the left

Folders, disks, a server and a phone side by side in the left panel — Disks, a server and a phone side by side

Saving in another format, the original and the result side by side — Saving in another format

Converting videos, on the graphics card when it can — Converting videos

The server manager, with a master password for the saved servers — The server manager

Trust

Every release file is signed with minisign, and the app installs only updates with a valid signature.
Free and open source, GPL-3.0-or-later.
No ads, no account, no data collected: see the privacy policy.
I am not a programmer any more: I wrote EyeCanSee with the help of Claude Code, and I test every feature on my own computers and devices before it goes in.