Image Capture vs Preview

Image Capture

Description: Image Capture is a built-in macOS app for transferring images from cameras or scanners. It allows importing photos directly into the Photos app or saving them to a folder on your Mac. Useful for easily downloading images without needing additional software.

Type: software

Preview

Description: Preview is a free and open-source document viewer application for macOS. It allows quick viewing of multiple file formats including images, PDFs, Markdown files, Office documents, and more. Preview has basic editing capabilities and annotation tools for PDFs.

Type: software

Pricing: Open Source

Image Capture Features

• Import photos directly from digital cameras and scanners
• Supports common image formats like JPEG, RAW, TIFF
• Adjust camera settings like ISO and white balance
• Organize photos into albums and events in Photos app
• Share photos to social media, email or AirDrop
• Basic image editing like rotate, crop and red eye removal

Preview Features

• View PDFs, images, text files and more
• Annotate PDFs with shapes, text boxes, signatures
• Basic image editing tools
• Fill out and sign PDF forms
• Combine PDFs and export as PDF or other formats
• Tabbed interface to view multiple files
• Quick Look support to preview files
• Built-in screen capture tool

Image Capture

• Not listed

Preview

• Open Source