
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.
- 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.
- Default viewer – 26.2.0.25386466510, May 19 -“flat” UI and font update.
- Second Life Lua Editor Alpha viewer 6.1.0.23768336784, April 29.
Official Viewer Release Cadence and Version Numbering
- Official viewer updates are generally made on a planned release cadence, with viewers generally issued as Release Candidate (RC) viewers (also referred to as Beta viewers, prior to being promoted to the default release viewer once sufficiently mature in terms of stability, crash rates, etc.
- The viewer version numbering system generally takes the following format:
- Major releases: Year.Release Number.0.Build Number. So: 2026.3.11223344556 = the third viewer of 2026 (2026.03.0) and has the build number 11223344556.
- Minor / Maintenance releases: fit into the above numbering system, but include a Minor Release number. So: 2026.3.1.66554433221 = is the first minor release to follow viewer viewer 2026.3 (2026.3.1) and has the build number 66554433221.
LL Viewer Resources
- SL release viewer download page – LL
- SL viewer release notes – LL
- SL Alternate Viewers page – LL
- SL available viewer index – LL
- SL Viewer reviews on this blog
- SL viewer updates in this blog
* Linux requires community contributions to remain current.
Current Third Party Viewers
v6+ Viewers
- Black Dragon for Windows – 5.6.0 March 1 – release notes.
- Firestorm version 7.2.4.80712 – June 1 – release notes – my overview.
- Available for Windows, Linux and Mac.
- Website.
- Download page.
- Firestorm reviews in this blog.
- Kirstens Viewer S24(7) Build 3470 (RC-1) – June 14 – release notes.
- Available for: Windows.
- Website.
- Download page.
- Kirstens Viewer articles in this blog.
- Kokua: 26.2.0.58527 (no RLV) and 26.2.0.62339 (RLV variants), May 24 – release notes.
- Available for: Windows, Mac and Linux.
- Website.
- Download page.
- Kokua reviews in this blog.
- Megaphit viewer version – 26.2.0.55409 – May 19 – changelog.
- Available for: MacOS (Arm chips) and Linux
- Website and downloads
v1-style Viewers
- Cool VL viewer Stable: 1.32.4.33; Experimental 1.32.5.3: June 13 – release notes.
- Available for: Windows, Linux.
- Website.
- Download page.
- Cool VL articles in this blog.
TPV Viewers Not Updated for 12+Months
The following viewers have not been updated in at least 12 months, and so may lack more recent features and capabilities found within the official viewers.
V6+ Viewers
- Alchemy – 7.1.9.2516 (Beta WebRTC build) January 20, 2025 – release notes.
- Available for: Windows.
- Website.
- Download Page.
- Alchemy articles in this blog.
- Aperture Viewer for Windows – 1.0.0, May 4. 2025 – release notes.
- Catznip version R13.2 – July 7, 2022 – release notes.
- Available for: Windows.
- Website.
- Download page.
- Catznip reviews in this blog.
- Lovense Viewer version 1.0.1.240230927, June 5, 2024 – no release notes
- Available for: Windows and MacOS
- Website with download links
- Restrained Love Viewer version 2.9.34 March 11, 2024 – release notes.
- Available for: Windows.
- Blog home page.
- Restrained Love articles in this blog.
V1-Style Viewers
- Genesis Viewer version 1.10.1089 March 29, 2024 – release notes.
- Available for Windows.
- Website
- Nightly builds
- 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.
- Beta Builds (currently down).
- Singularity reviews in this blog.
Mobile / Other Clients
The following are both graphical and non-graphic clients available for use with Second Life.
Official Mobile Client
Third-Party Clients
- Mobile Grid Client version 1.34.1315, 16 July 2023 – changelog.
- Available for Android.
- Website.
- Download options.
- Reviews.
- Radegast client version 2.52, March 3 – release notes.
- Speedlight – Android, iOS and Browser v2026.1 – January 1 – release notes.
- Website.
- Discord.
- Google Play page (new location).
- Apple Store page.
- Reviews.