FastStone Image Viewer Alternatives for Linux

FastStone Image Viewer is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is XnView MP. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try XnView MP or ImageGlass. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to FastStone Image Viewer and many of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to FastStone Image Viewer are qView, Gwenview, qimgv and gThumb.

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  1. XnView MP icon
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    Comprehensive photo management software for viewing, batch converting, editing and resizing images and creating thumbnail sheets.

    190 XnView MP alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

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    • Since 2010

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  2. ImageGlass icon
     271 likes

    A feature-rich, simple-to-use app seamlessly integrated with a clean, minimal and modern user interface.

    96 ImageGlass alternatives

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    Since

    • Since 2014

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  3. nomacs icon
     260 likes

    nomacs is a free, open source image viewer, which supports multiple platforms. You can use it for viewing all common image formats including RAW and psd images.

    113 nomacs alternatives

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    • Since 2012

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
    • Flathub
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  4. qView icon
     91 likes

    Fast and lightweight Qt-based image viewer with support for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Features include multiple format support, customizable interface, GIF playback, high-resolution display compatibility, and efficient navigation through keyboard shortcuts.

    130 qView alternatives

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    • Since 2018

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
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  5. Gwenview icon
     99 likes

    Offers quick browsing and display of various image formats, basic editing tools like crop, rotate, lossless JPEG manipulation, folder browsing as thumbnails or slideshows, supports XCF, drag-and-drop, metadata viewing, KDE integration, and plugin extensions.

    105 Gwenview alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2009

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
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  6. qimgv icon
     41 likes

    Qt5 image viewer with optional video support. Ability to quickly copy / move images to different folders. Can open some extra formats (JPEG-XL, AVIF, APNG, HEIF/HEIC, RAW) via third-party image plugins.

    118 qimgv alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2019

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  7. gThumb icon
     108 likes

    gThumb is an image viewer and browser for the GNOME Desktop. It also includes an importer tool for transferring photos from cameras.

    131 gThumb alternatives

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    Since

    • Since 2009

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
    • US flagUnited States
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  8. Pix icon
     12 likes

    An image viewer and browser utility - primarily for Linux Mint. Pix is part of the X-Apps project, which aims at producing cross-distribution and cross-desktop software.

    Cost / License

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    • Since 2017

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  9. Oculante icon
     6 likes

    A no-nonsense hardware-accelerated image viewer. Oculante's vision is to be a fast, unobtrusive, portable image viewer with wide image format support, offering image analysis and basic editing tools.

    68 Oculante alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2024

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • FreeBSD
    • BSD
    • NetBSD
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  10. Tonfotos icon
     102 likes

    Tonfotos simplifies browsing of large photo collection by grouping shots by events, dates, people, locations and so on. Quickly find what you need regardless where files are stored - on your computer, external drives or NAS.

    39 Tonfotos alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2021

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  11. QuickViewer icon
     19 likes

    QuickViewer is a graphic image viewer for comfortable browsing of many images. This software performs reading of image data in advance. And drawing the imported image data on the screen with OpenGL. You can browse images with much smoother response than ever before.

    120 QuickViewer alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2017

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  12. PhotoQt icon
     30 likes

    PhotoQt is a fast and simple, good looking, yet powerful and highly configurable image viewer.

    60 PhotoQt alternatives

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    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2013

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
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