
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: Maintenance Q(uality) viewer, version 6.6.9.577968 Thursday, February 2, 2023.
- Release channel cohorts (please see my notes on manually installing RC viewer versions if you wish to install any release candidate(s) yourself).
- Maintenance R RC viewer, version 6.6.10.578087, February 3 – translation updates and the return of slam bits, together with the Group Chat History functionality.
- Performance Floater / Auto-FPS RC viewer, version 6.6.9.577251, January 4, 2023.
- Project viewers:
- PBR Materials project viewer, version 7.0.0.577997, February 2, 2023.
- This viewer will only function on the following Aditi (beta grid) regions: Materials1; Materials Adult and Rumpus Room 1 through 4.
- Puppetry project viewer, version 6.6.8.576972, December 8, 2022.
- PBR Materials project viewer, version 7.0.0.577997, February 2, 2023.
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 – please refer to the Alchemy Discord server for current release(s).
- Available for: Windows, (32/64), Linux and Mac (64).
- Website.
- Download Page.
- Alchemy articles in this blog.
- Black Dragon for Windows 64-bit version 4.2.0 February 4 2023 – release notes.
- Catznip version R13.2 – July 7, 2022- release notes.
- Available for: Windows.
- Website.
- Download page.
- Catznip reviews in this blog.
- Firestorm version 6.6.8. 68380 January 17, 2023:
- 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 S23-6.1725 – September 29, 2022 – release notes.
- Available for: Windows.
- Website.
- Download page.
- Kirstens Viewer articles in this blog.
- Kokua: 6.6.8.50080 (no RLV) and 6.6.8.53435 (RLV variants) January 15, 2023 – release notes.
- Available for: Windows, Mac.
- Website.
- Download page.
- Kokua reviews in this blog.
- Restrained Love Viewer version 2.9.32.1 December 20, 2022 – release notes.
- Available for: Windows.
- Blog home page.
- Restrained Love articles in this blog.
v1-style Viewers
- Cool VL:
- Maintained: 1.30.2.0 (Stable) February 4, 2023 – release notes.
- Available for: Windows, Linux.
- Website.
- Download page.
- Cool VL articles in this blog.
- Genesis Viewer version .3.622 January 29, 2023 – 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.
- 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 – currently unreachable.
- Download page.
- SL wiki page.
- MetaChat version 1.2.9140, September 21, 2022 – release notes.
- Mobile Grid Client version 1.25.1293 January 2023 – release notes.
- Available for Android.
- Website.
- Download options.
- Reviews.
- Radegast client version 2.41 -February 5, 2023 – release notes.
- Available for: Windows, Linux Mac.
- Website.
- Reviews in this blog.
- Speedlight.
- Android, iOS and Browser v26 December 29, 2022 – release notes.
- Website.
- Discord.
- Google Play page.
- Reviews.