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u/BlankTenshii

▲ 26 r/macapps

Problem

I built Contact Sheet because Finder, Quick Look, and full photo libraries can all feel surprisingly clunky when all you want to do is review a folder of images quickly.

Sometimes I do not want to import files, create albums, wait for indexing, sync to a cloud service, or maintain a giant catalog.

I just want to:

  • open a local folder
  • visually scan everything inside it
  • find the right image
  • move on

So I made a tool focused entirely on that workflow.

Contact Sheet is a lightweight macOS image browser built for fast, local-first image review. Point it at a folder and instantly get a clean contact sheet with searchable thumbnails, folder navigation, fullscreen previews, metadata inspection, and quick keyboard-driven browsing.

No friction. No library management. No “project setup” moment.

Just folders and images.

Features

  • Recursive folder scanning
  • Fast thumbnail grid built for large folders
  • Persistent folder sidebar and filtering
  • Search and sorting
  • Original-image lightbox viewer
  • Keyboard shortcuts and navigation
  • File and camera metadata when available
  • Reveal files in Finder
  • Open images in external editors
  • Optional RAW file support groups
  • Move unwanted photos directly to Trash

Everything stays local on your Mac.

No cloud account.
No uploads.
No catalog.
No lock-in.

Comparison

Compared with Finder + Quick Look, Contact Sheet gives you a much denser and faster image-review workflow. You get thumbnails, folder filtering, search, sorting, fullscreen previews, and keyboard navigation all in one place.

Compared with Photos, Lightroom, or Capture One, Contact Sheet is intentionally tiny in scope.

Those apps are fantastic for editing, presets, albums, syncing, and long-term asset management.

Contact Sheet is for the in-between task: your files already exist on disk, and you just want to fly through them without turning the folder into a managed library.

Pricing

Contact Sheet is normally $8.99 as a lifetime purchase.

For the r/macapps community, you can use code MACAPPS50 for 50% off.

If you regularly work with screenshots, exports, design assets, photography folders, or large collections of local images, Contact Sheet is built to make that workflow dramatically faster.

If you're interested, you can purchase Contact Sheet at: contact-sheet.vecho.me

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EDIT: I've added a demo download on the bottom of the gumroad page to try out the app, everything's unlocked but it only displays up to 50 images

u/BlankTenshii — 8 days ago