Magpie

Magpie opens photos, videos, music, PDFs and fonts. Opening a file shows just that file, with the rest of its folder an arrow key away. Started on its own, Magpie opens your Pictures, with Pictures, Videos, Music and Documents in the sidebar.

Photos

• The common formats, plus HEIC, JPEG XL, TIFF, OpenEXR, JPEG 2000 and more. Animated GIF, WebP and PNG play.
• Zoom, pan, rotate, flip, copy, and a slideshow.
• Camera details, with a map link when a photo knows where it was taken.
• Set as wallpaper, for the light or the dark style. The picture is copied into ~/Pictures/Wallpapers, where Settings finds it.

Videos and music

• Videos play with frame previews when you hover the timeline, speed control, picture in picture, and subtitles from .srt or .vtt files or from inside MKV and MP4 files. Magpie remembers where you stopped.
• H.264, HEVC and other formats the viewer can’t decode itself play through the system’s media framework, with the same controls. When a video can’t play at all, Magpie offers other apps that might.
• Music turns the folder into a queue, with tags, covers, shuffle and repeat. The media controls in Notifications control it, and songs you open while one plays join the queue.

PDFs and fonts

• PDFs have selectable text, links, search, zoom and page thumbnails.
• Fonts show samples, every character, details, variable font axes and the faces in a collection. Install adds a font for your account, and you can make it the interface or monospace font from there.

Keyboard shortcuts

Shortcut	Does
Left / Right	Previous and next photo or font; seek 5 seconds in videos and music
Page Up / Page Down	Previous and next item
Space	Play or pause
J / L	Seek 10 seconds back or forward in videos
+ / - / 0 / 1	Zoom in, zoom out, fit, actual size
R / Shift+R	Rotate right and left
H	Flip
F5	Slideshow
Up / Down / M	Volume and mute
S	Shuffle
Ctrl+F	Find in a PDF
Alt+Enter	Photo details
F9	Sidebar, thumbnails, queue or pages
F or F11	Full screen