timg ☆

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Description:
Terminal image and video viewer

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Multimedia

Tags: terminal image-viewer video cli sixel

Install: brew install timg

About:
Timg is a high-performance terminal image and video viewer that renders media directly in the command line using various protocols like Sixel, Kitty, and iTerm2. It provides fast, high-quality previews of images, GIFs, and videos without requiring a GUI. Its main value is enabling rich visual feedback in terminal-based workflows and remote sessions.

Key Features:

Supports multiple terminal graphics protocols (Sixel, Kitty, iTerm2, etc.)
High-performance rendering with multithreading
Handles images, GIFs, and video files
Provides detailed image metadata and statistics

Use Cases:

Previewing images and videos in terminal file managers like ranger or lf
Viewing media over SSH connections without X11 forwarding
Quickly inspecting image properties and dimensions in scripts

Alternatives:

chafa – Chafa focuses on converting images to ANSI/Unicode character art, while Timg focuses on high-fidelity graphics protocols.
lsix – lsix is a simple shell script for thumbnails, whereas Timg is a compiled binary with broader format support and better performance.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 16, 2025 6:20am		1	VERSION_BUMP	d0bb8824
Sep 13, 2024 7:45pm		1	VERSION_BUMP	bf4f0dbf