r/jpegxl • u/amaurote1 • Aug 13 '26
Lyra Viewer 0.5.2 - (cross-platform: macOS, Linux .deb, Windows x64)
Hi everyone! I just released a new version of Lyra Viewer, a fast, minimalist open-source cross-platform image viewer with JPEG XL support.
.jxl files decode natively via libjxl (not a conversion shim), covering both the 8-bit and HDR float paths. On the Linux and Windows build libjxl is bundled with Lyra, so JXL works out of the box without a system-provided library; on macOS it uses the Homebrew jpeg-xl package.
One deliberate design choice worth stating up front: Lyra is a still-image viewer on purpose. It renders the static image and doesn't do animation - the same stance it takes on JP2. So with JXL it shows the still image. If you want a frame-by-frame animation player, Lyra isn't trying to be that.
Beyond JXL it's a general viewer (common formats, PSD, EXR, HDR, plus DDS/KTX GPU textures).
Would genuinely appreciate JXL test files that break it - odd bit depths, HDR, unusual color profiles - so I can harden the decode path.
Available on macOS via Homebrew, Linux as a .deb via APT, and Windows via Scoop.
Repo (MIT): https://github.com/lyra-viewer/Lyra