
Introduction
- This is intended to be a reference source for all current public SL viewers / clients of which I’m aware / for which I have information, and is primarily drawn from the Second Life Third-party viewer Directory listing.
- Updates will be made as-an-when I notice / am informed of releases from the various Viewers.
- A weekly summary of changes will be published on the Monday of each week, listing all changes noted during the previous week
- Comments on this page are closed, but can be left on the relevant weekly summary page.
- Updates / releases in the past week are shown in green.
- (32/64) – indicates versions available as 32 or 64 bit; (64) – indicates available as 64-bit only.
- Note that viewers considered as now having been updated recently enough to be fully compatible with Second Life are now listed under a separate heading towards the end of this page.
- Test viewers, preview / beta viewers / nightly builds are not recorded in this page.
LL Official Viewers
Available for: Windows, Mac and Linux* .
Available Viewers
This list reflects those viewers available via the first four links in the LL Viewer Resources section, below.
- Release viewer: version version 6.5.5.571282, – formerly the MFA RC viewer, dated April 26, promoted Wednesday, May 4th – NEW.
- Release channel cohorts (please see my notes on manually installing RC viewer versions if you wish to install any release candidate(s) yourself).
- Performance Improvements RC viewer version 6.6.0.571736, May 12.
- Makgeolli Maintenance RC viewer (Maintenance M) viewer, version 6.5.6.571575, May 12.
- Project viewers:
- Performance Floater project viewer, version 6.5.4.571296, May 10.
- Mesh Optimizer project viewer, version 6.5.2.566858, dated January 5, issued after January 10.
- Legacy Profiles viewer, version 6.4.11.550519, dated October 26, 2020.
- Copy / Paste viewer, version 6.3.5.533365, dated December 9, 2019.
LL Viewer Resources
- SL release viewer download page – LL
- SL viewer release notes – LL
- SL Alternate Viewers page – LL
- SL available viewer index – LL
- Starlight alternative viewer skins page (not officially supported by LL)
- Viewer release process overview – this blog
- SL Viewer reviews on this blog
- SL viewer updates in this blog
* Linux requires community contributions to remain current.
Third Party Viewers
v6-style Viewers
- Alchemy Beta Hotfix version 6.3.6.46705 – September 19 – release notes.
- Available for: Windows, (32/64), Linux and Mac (64).
- Website.
- Download Page.
- Alchemy articles in this blog.
- Black Dragon for Windows 64-bit 4.0.5 January 23, 2022 – release notes.
- Catznip version R13.1 – May 8 – release notes.
- Available for: Windows.
- Website.
- Download page.
- Catznip reviews in this blog.
- Firestorm:
- Release version 6.5.3.65658 – March 21 – release notes / my overview.
- Available for Windows (32/64), Linux (64), Mac (64).
- Website.
- Download page.
- Older releases.
- Firestorm reviews in this blog.
- Kirstens Viewer S23-6.1610 – May 30 – release notes.
- Available for: Windows.
- Website.
- Download page.
- Kirstens Viewer articles in this blog.
- Kokua: 6.5.5.48589 (non RLV) and 6.5.5.51893 (RLV variants) May 11 (all MFA) – release notes.
- Available for: Windows, Mac and Linux 64-bit.
- Website.
- Sourceforge repositories: 64-bit Mac; 64-bit Windows
- Download page.
- Kokua reviews in this blog.
- Restrained Love Viewer version 2.9.31 May 19 – release notes.
- Available for: Windows.
- Blog home page.
- Restrained Love articles in this blog.
v1-style Viewers
- Cool VL 1.28.2.70 (Stable) and 1.29.0.6 (Experimental), May 11 – release notes.
- Available for: Windows, Linux.
- Website.
- Download page.
- Cool VL articles in this blog.
- Singularity:
- Please refer to the nightly build pages for the latest version
- Latest formal release: 1.8.9.8338 April 2, 2020 – release notes.
- Available for: Windows, Mac, Linux.
- Website.
- Download page.
- Alpha Builds (Experimental).
- Singularity reviews in this blog.
Mobile / Other Clients
- Group Tools 2.2.43.1 – February 28, 2017 (no release notes).
- Available for: Windows.
- Website.
- Download page.
- SL wiki page.
- MetaChat version 1.2.9137, March 17 – release notes.
- Mobile Grid Client version 1.25.1280 September 23 – release notes.
- Available for Android.
- Website.
- Download options.
- Reviews.
- Radegast client version 2.39 – February 17 – release notes.
- Available for: Windows, Linux Mac.
- Website.
- Reviews in this blog.
- Speedlight.
- Android, iOS and Browser v21 March 31 – release notes.
- Website.
- Discord.
- Google Play page.
- Reviews.