Candy

Small edits.
Back to your day.

A small image tool for your Mac. Open a screenshot, make the few edits you need, and save a copy. Then get on with it.

Get CandyView on GitHub

macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon · Free & open source

Candy’s native editor with a yellow highlight drawn across the sample image’s headline
The real Candy editor, with a synthetic sample image.

From your terminal.
At home on your Mac.

Preview an image in a Kitty-compatible terminal. Need an edit? Open a native macOS window, with familiar tabs, shortcuts and save dialogs. 

candy photo.png
candy edit photo.png
# Your shell is ready for the next command.

Just the tools
you came for.

Keep the good part.

Select a region and extract it into a new image. Move it, resize it, get it just right.

Make your point.

Draw a translucent highlight. Pick the color, width and opacity.

Mosaic a little. Or a lot.

Pixelate a region, or find English and Korean text locally with Apple Vision. Review the boxes before applying.

A better fit.

Resize an image while keeping its proportions, or set the exact dimensions you need.

Set the background.

Flatten transparency onto a color, ready for an image format that needs a solid background.

Your original stays yours.

The first save makes a copy. Undo and redo along the way. Image processing and OCR stay on your Mac.

Open   PNG · JPEG · WebP · HEIC · AVIF

Save   PNG · JPEG · WebP

Small tool.
Open source.

Candy is free under the MIT license. Install the app and terminal command together with Homebrew, or download the app directly.

Download Candy for Mac 
brew install --cask rath/tap/candy

For Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 14 or later. Signed with Developer ID and notarized by Apple. No build tools needed.