Sequential is a free image viewer for Mac OS X. It was originally designed for opening a folder of images and displaying them in order. It works well for viewing comics. Sequential can display folders and archives (ZIP, RAR, CBZ and CBR) of images (including JPEG, PNG, and GIF) and PDF files. Keep reading for a brief overview.
There’s nothing wrong with Preview, and Quick Look is handy, but when it comes to features, Sequential has them both beat, hands down. While giving Sequential a try, it didn’t take long for me to change file associations for all my images so that they open with it instead of Preview.
- After opening an image, Sequential scans the rest of the directory and allows you to quickly scroll through them as well. Click anywhere on the picture and Sequential will move to the next one (or use one of the keyboard shortcuts, scroll to the end of this post for the full list).
- The top frame of Sequential displays the folder name and current image number of the total images in that folder (eg. 2 of 9).
- You can jump to any image in the folder by using the Page drop-down list.
- There are a number of sorting options available via the Sort drop-down list.
- And images can be sized in various ways by using the Scale drop-down list.
- Select Sequential -> Preferences to change some of the default options to best suit your needs.
Sequential Keyboard Shortcuts
| Documents & sessions | Shortcut | |
| Open local file | Command-O | |
| Open URL | Command-Shift-O | |
| Close window | Command-W | |
| Close all documents | Command-Option-W | |
| Pause current session | Period (.) | |
| Scrolling | Shortcut | |
| Any direction | Arrow keys | |
| One screen forward, by column then row | Space, 0 (Number pad) | |
| One screen backward, by column then row | B, Shift-Space, Shift-0 (Number pad) | |
| One screen forward, by row then column | V, Enter (Number pad) | |
| One screen backward, by row then column | C, Shift-V, Shift-Enter (Number pad) | |
| One screen up | Page up | |
| One screen down | Page down | |
| Beginning of page | Home | |
| End of page | End | |
| One screen in the specified direction (i.e. 8 is up) |
1-9 (Number pad) | |
| Display | Shortcut | |
| Enter/exit full screen | Command-F, Escape | |
| Show/hide info | I, Command-I | |
| Show/hide exif data panel | E | |
| Show/hide timer panel | T | |
| Show/hide activity panel | Command-Shift-A | |
| Read from left to right | Command-L | |
| Read from right to left | Command-; | |
| Rotate image clockwise | R | |
| Rotate image counter-clockwise | Shift-R | |
| Scaling | Shortcut | |
| Actual size | A | |
| Actual size with DPI | D | |
| Automatic Fit | F | |
| Fit to Window/Screen | S | |
| Zoom In | Command-plus (+) | |
| Zoom Out | Command-minus (-) | |
| Sorting | Shortcut | |
| Sort by name | Command-1 | |
| Sort by date modified | Command-1 | |
| Sort by date created | Command-3 | |
| Sort by file size | Command-4 | |
| Shuffle | Command-0 | |
| Navigating | Shortcut | |
| Go to next/previous page | [, ], + (Number pad), – (Number pad) | |
| Go to last/first page | Command-[, Command-] | |
| Skip past/before folder | K, Shift-K | |
| Go to first page of next/previous folder | J, Shift-J | |
| Go to last/first page of current folder | L, Shift-L | |
| Set timer (amount in seconds) | 1-9 (Not on number pad) | |
| Set timer (amount in seconds x10) | Option-1-9 (Not on number pad) | |
| Stop timer | 0 (Not on number pad) | |
| Searching | Shortcut | |
| Show find panel | Command-F | |
| Find next | Command-G | |
| Find previous | Command-Shift-G | |
| Other | Shortcut | |
| Switch to Finder | Command-Option-F | |
| Switch to Path Finder (when Path Finder is running) |
Command-Option-P | |
| Reveal in Finder/Browser | Command-R | |
| Reveal in Path Finder (when Path Finder is running) |
Command-Option-R | |
| Extract images | Command-E | |
| Move image to trash | Command-delete | |
| Quit Sequential | Q, Command-Q | |
OWH! this is great! I’m so glad to see pics of Derek and Susan too. I’ll be checking back soon!