MediaPiper

Hover any image or video to instantly preview the full-size version. MediaPiper automatically discovers full-resolution URLs, upscales with on-device AI, and gives you professional-grade media controls — all inside a floating popup.

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Intelligent Discovery

Traditional image-preview extensions rely on fragile, hand-maintained site rules that break whenever a website changes its code. MediaPiper replaces that with an adaptive discovery engine that learns patterns on its own.

Canary Pairs

The engine samples page images, identifies thumbnail-to-full-size URL patterns, and verifies them. If a pattern changes, it re-discovers automatically.

4 Resolution Strategies

Substitution (template URLs), Mutation (regex/param/host transforms), Fetch (HTTP + extraction), and Pipeline (chained steps). All declarative — no JS eval, no sandbox.

Bundled Sieves

Pre-configured rules for Imgur, Reddit, Flickr, Twitter/X, Pinterest, and other popular sites. Eliminates cold-start delay while flowing through the same verify-and-resolve path as discovered rules.

Smart Prefetch

Configurable pre-resolution tiers — Off, Light, Moderate, Aggressive, YOLO, or Custom — with per-domain probe limits, delays, and timeouts.

Image

A complete image browsing toolkit, from casual preview to professional workflow.

Full-Size Preview

Hover any thumbnail for instant full-resolution display

Zoom & Pan

Scroll to zoom, click-drag to pan when zoomed in

Rotate & Flip

Rotation dial with snap angles, horizontal and vertical mirror

Fit Modes

Contain, fill width, fill height, or actual size

Background Images

Detects and previews CSS background-images, not just img tags

Copy Anything

Copy URL, copy as Markdown, or copy the image bytes

Image Cycling

Navigate between page images without closing the popup

Standalone Viewer

Enhanced viewer for direct image URLs with background toggle

Video

Full video control inside the popup — no need to leave the page.

Inline Preview

Hover video thumbnails and links to preview with autoplay

Frame-by-Frame

Step forward and backward one frame at a time

Speed Control

Adjust playback rate with keyboard shortcuts

A/B Loop

Set loop start/end points with optional bounce-reverse

Screenshot Capture

Grab any frame as PNG, JPEG, or WebP

GIF Controller

Full playback control for animated GIFs including bounce

AI (via ToolPiper)

Upscaling and OCR run on-device on Apple Silicon through ToolPiper, with no cloud and no API keys. Upscaling needs a paid plan, shown on each card, and OCR is part of Pro. The side pane's chat runs on the model you pick in it: a local model, or a cloud provider you have set up in ToolPiper.

SPAN 4x Image Upscale

CoreML-powered super-resolution. One-click upscale of any web image directly from the preview toolbar.

Studio $29/mo

PiperSR 2x Video Upscale

Video super-resolution on the Apple Neural Engine.

Studio $29/mo

Auto Upscale

Automatically upscale images below a configurable size threshold — no manual trigger needed.

Studio $29/mo

OCR

Extract and copy text from any web image instantly.

Saved Items

Save to Collection

Save any image or video URL with metadata — source page, domain, and caption. Up to 5,000 items.

Browse & Manage

Standalone page to browse, sort by date or domain, bulk select, and delete saved media.

Customization

40+ Keyboard Shortcuts

Fully remappable hotkeys with modifier key combos

Toolbar Control

Auto-hide, always-on, or hidden. Top or bottom positioning

Popup Appearance

Backdrop overlay, border radius, shadow, caption display

Configurable Triggers

Hover-only or hover+modifier key, adjustable delays

Focus Lock

Pin the popup open so it stays while you work

Mouse Following

Popup smoothly follows your cursor until locked or zoomed

Privacy & Performance

No Analytics

MediaPiper has no analytics and no account, and it sends nothing to our servers. It checks candidate full-size URLs on the sites you browse, loads the media you preview, and talks to ToolPiper on your Mac when it is installed. Your settings, rules and saved items stay in your browser.

Site Filtering

Allowlist or blocklist mode with per-site image, video, and detection blocking. Tracking parameters (utm, fbclid, gclid) are automatically stripped.

Tuned for Speed

Configurable prefetch tuning, resolve timeouts, failed-URL tracking to prevent retry loops, and decode pre-warming for instant rendering.