A fast, distraction-free photo viewer.
Project description
AuraView
a minimal, elegant image viewer inspired by the art of melody.
✨ About
AuraView is a minimalist photo viewer designed to stay out of your way. No clutter. No unnecessary controls. Just your images — fast and clear.
It focuses on:
- ⚡ Speed
- 🧼 Clean interface
- 🖼️ Smooth image viewing
- 🪶 Lightweight footprint
🐍 Requirements
- Python 3.14.2 (Tested)
- pandas
- pillow
- pillow_heif
🚀 Features
- View photos smoothly and instantly
- Supports Apple image formats (including HEIF/HEIC)
- Keyboard-based image navigation
- Image rotation support
- In-place rotation (changes persist)
- Copy images to another location
- Move images between directories
📦 Installation
Install AuraView using pip:
pip install auraview
🖥️ Usage
Launch AuraView:
auraview
Open a specific directory:
auraview /path/to/folder
Open a specific image file:
auraview /path/to/image.jpg
📌 Command Line Options
Show version:
auraview --version
auraview -v
Show help:
auraview --help
auraview -h
Show author:
auraview --author
auraview -a
Show author email:
auraview --email
auraview -e
Show release date:
auraview --date
auraview -d
Changelog
Version 0.7.0 28-03-2026
- bugfix on --logfile mode
Version 0.6.0 24-02-2026
- Natural sort feature added.
- Transfer dev workflow to pure uv.
- Rotate image based on exif tags to avoid pixel conversion.
Version 0.5.0 23-02-2026
- Bug on file input.
Version 0.4.0 23-02-2026
- removed recursive selection of all images while using file as input.
Version 0.3.0 23-02-2026
- added additional requirement to pyproject.toml
Version 0.2.0 23-02-2026
- Added image counter
- Added go to image index feature
- added copy, move, Delete, Rotate
- Update extension feature.
- Datetime labels
Version 0.1.0 - 19-02-2026
- Initial release
- Able to view photos.
- supports apple image extensions.
- Navigation supported.
- Image transform: Rotation possible.
- Rotations are considered inplace.
- Copy and Move functions available.
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