Free · Open source · Windows

Images, PDFs, videos. They just open.

A viewer for images, PDFs and videos that shows your file and nothing else. No account, and no adware slipped in with an update.

Free forever · No sign-up · Nothing is uploaded

SeeAnyFile showing a photo with the folder filmstrip and file information panel

No ads unless you want them

Off in the app until you switch them on. Never in the installer, never bundled software.

No account

Install and open a file. There is nothing to sign up for.

Your files stay on your PC

Background removal and text recognition run on your computer. Nothing is uploaded.

What it does today

Everything below works now, on your PC, without uploading a single file.

Images, PDFs and videos open instantly

41 extensions: the common photo formats, PSD, SVG and DXF drawings. MP4, MOV and WebM videos play with speed, loop and mute.

One-click background removal

Cut out the subject on your own PC: transparent, white or any colour, a square 1000 px shop preset, and whole folders at once.

Copy text out of a photo

Korean and English text recognition: drag across a receipt, a letter or a screenshot and copy. One key: T.

Edit and convert in batches

Crop, resize, rotate, flip, undo. Turn a whole folder into JPG, PNG or WebP and rename it in one go. The original is never overwritten.

Real PDF viewing

Continuous pages, thumbnails, selectable text, find in document. A PDF reopens on the page you left.

Walk a folder with the arrow keys

Sorted the way a person reads (IMG2 before IMG10), with a filmstrip of cached thumbnails.

Small tools you use every day

Eyedropper colour codes, QR code reading, copy a picture, paste to open (Ctrl+V), always on top, command palette (Ctrl+K).

A library that stays on this PC

Recent files, stars, favourites and resume points, kept on this PC with no account and no server.

12 languages, light and dark

Follows your system language and theme. One damaged file fails alone and never takes the program down.

Formats

Images

JPEGPNGWebPGIFBMPTIFFSVGPSDJXLICODXF

Documents

PDFHEICAVIFRAW

Video

MP4MOVWebM

Local first, by construction

This is a property of the build, not just a promise in a policy. Your files are processed on your computer and never uploaded, and the page the interface runs in cannot load anything from a remote address. The program goes online only when you ask it to - for an optional AI model, or sponsored pictures you switch on - and even then sends no file, file name or personal data. A file becomes readable only after you point at it: through the dialog, a drop, or opening it with SeeAnyFile from Explorer.

  • No telemetry, no analytics, no crash reporting in the program
  • Settings, thumbnails and logs stay in your own user folder
  • Release logs record warnings and errors, never file contents
Read the privacy policy

What comes next

Built in order. A phase ships when it works in real use, not when it compiles.

Phase 1 Shell, image viewer, PDF viewer Done
Phase 2 Crop, resize, rotate, export, undo Done
Phase 3 Conversion and batch processing Done
Phase 4 Merge, split and reorder PDF pages Next
Phase 5 Text recognition in photos (Korean, English) Done
Phase 6 Searchable PDF from a scan Planned

Questions

Is it really free?

Yes. There is no paid tier and no subscription. The program shows sponsored pictures only if you switch them on, and the website may show ads. The source is public under the MIT licence, so you can check that for yourself.

Will an update install something I did not ask for?

No. That behaviour is the reason this program exists. The installer contains the viewer and nothing else.

Does it send my files anywhere?

No. Your files - including photos you remove a background from or read text in - are processed on your computer and never uploaded. The program goes online only for an optional AI model you choose to download, or for sponsored pictures you switch on, and sends no file or personal data. You can confirm it by reading the source or by watching your firewall.

Can it do OCR or editing yet?

Yes. Cropping, resizing, rotating and exporting, batch conversion, one-click background removal and text recognition in photos are built in and run on your computer. Text recognition in scanned PDFs and PDF page tools come next, as the roadmap above shows.

Download

Windows 10 and 11. About 30 MB, AI models included.

Every release is built in public by GitHub Actions, so the installer you download matches the source you can read.

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