Phoenix Slides is a fast full-screen slideshow program/image browser, for flipping through folders or disks full of images. Phoenix Slides also does lossless JPEG transformations and can display EXIF data. It runs on macOS 10.13 or later.

Version 1.5.9 released 2024 May 15
Download Phoenix Slides 1.5.9 (885 KB) - or download on github

For OS X 10.9-10.12, download version 1.4.7 (659 KB)
For OS X 10.3-10.8, download version 1.3.1 (870 KB)

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Source code - now available on github!

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What's New

• by popular demand, add preference to default to slideshow-in-window
• fix crash when generating thumbnails for cr3 files
• fix arw and nef files showing up the wrong size (very small!) in slideshow mode (appears to be a bug in Apple's frameworks)
• show (non-collapsed) file browser section of window for new users of the app (it was accidentally collapsed by default starting in version 1.5.3)
• auto-advance is now paused when you go backwards (hit space or right arrow to resume; hit 0 to kill the timer completely)
• add hidden preference to ignore the notch on macbook: run defaults write net.blyt.phoenixslides pretendNotchIsntThere -bool YES in Terminal

• fix hang (and runaway memory usage) when a parent directory of the current directory is deleted
• show filename in title bar of slideshow window

More version history.

And/or a recent-ish blog post here: Phoenix Slides Lives!

Donations

Phoenix Slides is free! If you feel you have benefited from this software and feel inclined to make a donation, here are some buttons:

You are also welcome to contact me for whatever reason, of course.

Comments

"Phoenix Slides is blazingly fast. With my 1000+ photos, iPhoto smoulders along, but the phoenix burns right though them." --Eugene Liu

Phoenix shows the directory structure perfectly, and having them display full screen one by one or as manual or timed slide shows is just perfect. The ability to play a slide show including subdirectories is just brilliant. Well done, and thank you for a very professional piece of software. --ChrisG_UK, versiontracker

Exactly what I was looking for! A way to browse my photos without importing to iPhoto. I can also scroll through folders in full screen using the mouse buttons. Well done! --steve, versiontracker

License

Copyright 2005-2024 by Dominic Yu. This software is free and open source. You are free to use it for non-commercial purposes. Derivative works must give proper credit to me and be shared under the same license, unless I give written permission stating otherwise.