Fragment App Reviews

Tried to reduce the size of an animated GIF by cropping a pointless frame. The resulting GIF was over twice the file size of the original. Not what was expected or desired. The image on the screen slowed dramatically after the change was made, possibly indicating that the app was interpolating frames or something. Something should explain the size doubling. The UI is rather opaque, particularly with aniGIFs, which have a lot more qiualities than size and shape. App needs more conceptual depth in the UI, and better button icons (you shouldn’t have to explain “Save”. The word “Save” would suffice) Yet, so far, it is the first free app I have found that will actually process an animated gif into a modified animated gif without screwing up horribly. Unfortunately, it is merely minimally competent at it, not actually useful.

All I wanted was a nice viewer, not as heavy as Photos. This looked good until the first transition…then you are endlessly asked to purchase the advanced transitions. I might have considered purchasing something later on, but it now going into the bit bucket and Im looking for something else.

The best simple image viewer I ever used, both on Mac and PC. Its fast, simple, elegant, easy to use. The hotkeys which I used to use (space for next, shift-space for last, F for full size) work even without configuration. This is really how a APP should be!

Works great! Drag & Drop gif and enjoy the animation. You can also play at ¼ speed, rotate and crop your image.

justo lo que buscaba!!! just what i was lloking for!! THANKS!

worst just ad only Never try if you dont want to waist of time.

Everytime I tried to open it, it crashed withen half a second.

I just used this to go through several folders of hundreds of images. I was able to quickly delete any out of focus or poorly composed shots. It is a lot faster than using quickview and the arrow keys if youve got to delete every 3rd or 4th image.

Exactly what I was looking for. Just wanted to easily browse full screen photos in albums on my Mac without using iPhoto. Viewing capabilities similar to Fast Stone for Windows.

I wanted to be able to just scroll thru pictures and Apple was unable to give me a user friendly program until I found this App. Apple needs to learn from this vendor! I love this picture program, basic and easy viewing!

I have only taken Fragment for a short test drive so far, but I am already glad I took the time to download it. It does what it says it does: it displays many different types of image files and it offers a flexible interface for browsing menus and zooming into and out of images. It is fast and takes up little room. The interface itself is extremely clean, which I like quite a bit, but after using a few Linux distros that were determined to stay out of my way, I am used to right-clicking everything to see whats what. So it may look sparse when you open the app, but seriously: right-click everything. If you see an icon, right-click it, no matter how small or seemingly random. To change the background and see the background options, right-click the background. Then right-click every single element of the little preference panel that appears. If you keep doing this you will discover that there are very quick and handy ways to zoom to 100% as well as to browse additional images in the folder you are currently working in. And that a quick-changing background is really useful for evaluating transparent image elements/alpha-channel effects. Update: Thank you for making the preferences text a little bigger! Unless I am hallucinating. Then nevermind or I guess it wasnt so small as I thought so nevermind. After using this application for several months, I still find it to be a very elegant way to browse images on my computer and I love almost everything about it. My last remaining frustration: if I launch Fragment by opening an image file, the intial window size is very small, and it takes several gestures to zoom both image and window to 100% of the image size--even with images that are much smaller than my monitor. I dont know if I am missing a configurabe option somewhere. Ideally, I would like to be able to set a maximum width and height up to which any initial window will be the actual size of the image being opened. At the very least, a single click/double-click should zoom both image and window to the images actual size when space permits. Thats all. :) Everything else is wonderful.

Fragment is inches from greatness. It needs a slideshow mode (windowed and fullscreen), with configurable timer, and allow pause/skip-navigation, and most importantly delete without interrupting the slideshow. This is part of the workflow I look for when reviewing/culling a bunch of images. Crop would be a nice addition (in standard mode). Lastly, the overlay menu navigation is reeeally slow. Otherwise, great app.

Finally, a way to look at all the photos on my photo cards without having to do each one at a time! The one flaw is that it doesn’t refresh the directory. Meaning if I have to take the memory stick out to take a new photo of something, Fragment thinks the directory is empty. i.e. it realizes that card was removed but I can’t get it to reload/refresh the directory once I put the card back into the reader. I have to close Fragment and restart it before it will look at that folder again. Otherwise, it does what it says. Added bonus is that I can right click on the image and open it in another application directly. And, it found all of the various image editors and tools already installed.

When I edit pictures in Photoshop, I tend to use ProPhoto RGB for the color space because it gives me the most latitude. If I export a JPG in this color space, Fracture displays it in terrible colors. If I export it to the color space it expects (sRGB), the colors are still completely off (just not as obviously off). This is any good if you do anything serious with pictures. Look for something which understands color.

Fragment has the potential to become the best image viewer in the App store. The developer continues to refine the experience, maintains a fresh, original approach. Fragment is not yet-another-chinese-knockoff type of app. I’d like to ask potential users to try Fragment, and support this developer. 5 stars : 4 stars for execution + 1 bonus star for concept

Cant get the app to do anything whatsoever. Completely useless.

This image viewer has potential. It is fast when it works, crashes frequently. The background is distracting, some kind of weird printed circuit board design. Cant save default file formats. Has trouble reading my Canon Raw files. Has trouble reading Photoshop .psd files with layers, or high bit rate files. Hopefully next version will be better. Version I tested was 1.5.1.0. Deleted

Fragment looks like a decent replacement for ViewIt, an application you can leave closed bit in the Dock and just drag a folder containing images to that Dock icon and be rewarded by having the application do what you expect - give you a basic interface for moving between and viewing each of those images. Fragment allows you to move between images both with arrow keys and with trackpad swipes, and I appreciate both options. Fragment isn’t perfect: because it runs in a security sandbox it doesn’t seem to like having a group of images dropped on it. Fragment can deal with a whole folder or a single image, but opening a group of images - either within the app or via drag-and-drop - isn’t there yet.

Keep telling me to upgrade every time I pass 2 or 3 photos