r9view
Read comics straight out of the zip. Watch a season without unpacking a thing.
With the touch controls mpv never had.
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/XPro-Gamer-Rhine/r9view-app/main/install.sh | bashNo Developer ID, so the installer clears the quarantine flag for you. Prefer to drag it yourself? Download the .dmg.
What it does
📚 Nothing is ever unpacked
Point it at a .cbz, .cbr, .7z or .zip
and it reads the pages out of the archive, in page order, on background threads,
with the neighbours prefetched so a swipe lands on a drawn page.
🎬 mpv, with hands
The player is mpv through libmpv, rendered into the scene graph rather than a window stacked on top — which is what lets the controls be drawn over the picture. VideoToolbox decodes; the Mac stays cool.
💬 Subtitles that are actually found
Not just the .srt beside the file. It searches the whole folder and the
whole archive and works out which subtitle belongs to which episode — including
Subs/01/2_eng.ass, where the 2 is a track and not episode two.
⌨️ Every key is yours
A comic reader and mpv under one keyboard, and which one a key should mean depends on where you came from. So every binding is a row in Settings you can retype, with conflicts refused rather than silently swallowed.
🖐 Built for a tablet first
Swipe the page, pinch to zoom, double-tap a third of the screen to skip ten seconds, press and hold for 2×, drag for volume on the right and brightness on the left.
🔖 It remembers
The page you stopped on and the second you stopped at, and reopens there. Nothing is ever written next to your files.
Touch
| gesture | reading | watching |
|---|---|---|
| tap the middle | show or hide the bars | show or hide the bars |
| tap the left or right edge | previous / next page | — |
| double tap a third | zoom to that spot | back / forward 10s, then 20, 30… |
| press and hold | — | 2× speed until you let go |
| drag up or down | — | volume right, brightness left |
| swipe · pinch · drag | turn the page · zoom · pan | — · zoom · — |
Reads
The exotic half — AVIF, JPEG XL, PSD, OpenEXR, camera RAW — is decoded by macOS itself through ImageIO, so the list grows with the system.