Prowser (Personal Image Browser) is a native image browser built specifically for macOS and Apple silicon. It reads directly from your existing folders — no import step — and gives you keyboard-driven navigation, powerful search, and practical organization tools in one app.

There are two versions of Prowser:

  1. The Swift version (recommended for most users) is very fast and very small, and provides only viewing and organization features.
  2. The Python version is more feature-rich, and adds local AI image generation, expansion, generative infill and modification, among other features.

Prowser-swift.dmg Native Swift build — browse only, very fast and very small.

A Swift (non-Python) version focused on fast image browsing, duplicate and similar images and facial recognition. Very fast and very small.

Last updated 2026-09-21 11:17 — 6 hrs, 11 mins ago
File size 6 MB
MD5 e6e1b2c5dd223dc0567d836e630f635c
Installation

Open the DMG and drag swift-prowser to Applications.

To run from source instead, save the included source folder and run
./setup.sh # First time only
./run.sh

Source code is included in the disk image.

Prowser-0.9.3.dmg Larger version with AI image generation and manipulation

Python-based build with the full feature set, including local AI image generation, expansion, generative infill and modification.

Last updated 2026-09-19 04:04 — 2 days, 13 hrs, 24 mins ago
File size 586 MB
MD5 43e92c208d9f241638110873b5605040
Installation

Open the DMG and drag Prowser to Applications.

To run from source instead, save the included source folder and run
./setup.sh # First time only
./run.sh

Source code is included in the disk image.

Code for the Python version is also available at GitHub: https://github.com/Waltz49/Prowser.
Code for the Swift version will be made available later but is available on request.

Questions or bug reports: sillysotsoftware@yahoo.com.

Settings Available

Hover over the tabs on the left to see what is available in settings.

Prowser preferences — General settings General Favorites Directories File Types Destinations Excludes Theme Maps and Editor Slideshow Models for Search Face Recognition Captioning LoRA Caches