Eagle 4.0.0 build 11 20250627 Mac

Eagle is built for Macs running macOS 10.15 Catalina or newer, with native support for both ARM-based Apple Silicon and x86 64-bit Intel processors. It acts as a searchable library for designers who collect screenshots, mood boards, textures, and other visual files. The app accepts dragged folders, clipboard captures, and images saved through browser extensions for Safari, Chrome, Edge, and Firefox.

A viewer for more than pictures

Double-clicking an asset opens a built-in viewer that handles GIFs, videos, fonts, and layered PSD files without launching other applications. Hovering over a file in the grid now also previews AVIF images, a capability added in the latest release. Metadata, color palettes, and font details appear in a side panel, so the information arrives before a file is even opened. Ratings, notes, and annotations can be written directly onto images, turning the library into a working reference rather than a passive folder of thumbnails.

Finding files by their qualities

Filters sort the entire catalog by color, size, shape, file type, and date. Smart folders populate themselves according to rules set once, which means a designer can drop new files into a watched folder and find them already grouped by the morning. For visually similar assets, the detection engine now handles files up to 128 MB, widening the net for high-resolution scans and complex illustrations.

A thumbnail slider that reshuffles the scan-and-zoom rhythm

Two small additions in build 20250627 quietly reshape a typical working session. The thumbnail display control in the layout panel means a UI designer reviewing hundreds of icon variants can shrink the grid to scan faster, then enlarge it when comparing two nearly identical states — no menu diving, no resizing the whole window. The new "remove specified folder" and "remove specified tag" actions strip away batch-clutter that used to require selecting items first; a motion designer can purge a stale reference folder from a library without opening it, and a mis-tagged batch of autumn palette images can shed the wrong label in one move.

The AVIF hover preview, while modest on paper, cuts out the extra step of opening files that Safari and Chrome increasingly serve by default. For anyone hoarding web-sourced mood imagery, the grid now delivers a fast finger-check rather than a double-click interruption.

A workflow: curating a UI reference library from scratch

Start by adding the Eagle browser extension to Safari — the same process works for Chrome, Edge, or Firefox. Browse a design gallery, right-click any screenshot, and save it directly to an Eagle library named Mobile Patterns stored on an external drive. The app accepts the file without switching windows.

Back in Eagle, create smart folders that watch for file types: one for PNG screenshots, another for Figma mockups, a third for logo SVGs. Drag a folder of older client work from the desktop onto the sidebar; Eagle imports everything while preserving the folder structure as nested subfolders. As files arrive, apply multi-level colored tags — blue for iOS, green for Android, yellow for web — and add a star rating to any screen that solves a particular layout problem well.

When a search calls for all yellow-tagged files with rounded corners and a specific hex range, type an advanced query using parentheses and AND logic. The filter panel narrows by shape and color faster than scrolling. Annotate the strongest candidates right in the viewer, circle a spacing issue, and the notes stay with the file. Export the shortlist as a clean folder of PNGs for a client deck, with the folder structure Eagle generates from the tag hierarchy.

Version 4.0.0 build 11 20250627 lifts the previous time limit on audio files, so clips longer than one hour are now supported. Thumbnail display controls have been added to the layout panel, and AVIF images show a hover preview in the grid. Two new actions let users remove a specified folder or tag, and a macOS bug that could cause the main window to appear after taking a screenshot has been fixed.

• macOS 10.15 or later
• Apple Silicon or Intel processor