Slides App Reviews

I love this software, Lots of cool feature, nothing comes close to Slides for viewing photos on your Mac.

Since transitioning from Windows to Mac a few months ago, I had been looking for a good image viewing program that will allow for slideshow viewing, but then iCloud Drive came into the picture and I started using that. Unfortunately not all apps support it yet, but this one does. It’s more than I wanted to spend on this kind of app, but it does work well and I’m happy with it. More importantly, the developer was able to answer all my questions before purchase, and very quickly, something that was extremely influential in my purchase of this app.

I recently switched from Windows to Mac and have been looking for an easy photo viewer. This is it! I have iPhoto but I don’t like the fact it keeps photos in its own library. This app allows you to easily view photos where ever they are stored. Nice options to go with it too. Maybe the price is a bit high, but it is just what I was looking for so worth the price for me.

I like the UI a lot. Unfortunately, it just crashed several times in rapid succession when I tried to run it in slideshow mode. Brand new macbookpro with yosemite.

Its a very good image browser with thumbnails and a large preview area. The preview area will *not* play GIFS, but it does support Quicklook which will play the gifs. The thumbnails have a max size of 256x256 which can be a bit small on a 27” imac. It offers tags support in the thumbnail area and you can add a keyboard shortcut (for Show Tags…) to set Spotlight tags using the Keyboard preferences pane. That’s a great feature to have. I would give it 5 stars if it had GIF support and larger thumbnails. ** after using it for a week ** I like this quite a bit. I sent the developer my feedback and he’s putting it into the next update. I also just discovered that the slideshow function plays gifs as well. ** Two weeks later ** Just read about the “recurse” option. Its like using the Deep option in Leap which is what I was using until I saw that. And slideshows also support this option! It works well for me. I’m changing my rating to 5 stars since these extra features that I keep discovering really make this a very useful app.

I’ve been an extremely happy user of this neat app for a number of months and it fits my needs exactly. I recall ages ago using a light table at work to sort through hundreds of 35mm slides daily and this app makes that job so easy. There are several options to refer to each image below, such as by image name, resolution, creation/modification date, file size, and any associated tags. In addition to viewing that actual image, these data provide added help in sorting into specific folders, which are listed in the sidebar. Please note that this is not an image editor though it does provide the opportunity to rotate and resize images. This app has helped me manage thousands of images, even to the point of finally discarding images an old Photography instructor referred to as “stale gum” (rejects). It has also given me the easy means of putting images that I want to edit or enhance in the future in separate folders. This app is so good that my only contact with the dev was over a smal detail but his response was quick and helpful. Highly recommended!

For anyone who keeps lots of photos and images stored in folders on a hard drive (outside of a DAM like iPhotos, Photos, Aperture or Lightroom), this image browser is wonderful. It’s beautifully designed and very light, with just enough options to customize it for one’s personal tastes and workflow, but not so many features to be cumbersome. It’s responsive and fast, with the ability to view and sort images, to see them in zoom, preview and slideshow views, and to open them in other applications — plus one can create new folders and rearrange existing folders of images. Highly recommended!