Gwenview Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to Gwenview for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. 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 digiKam. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Gwenview and many of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Gwenview are qView, qimgv, Shotwell 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.

    145 XnView MP alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
     
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    XnView MP vs Gwenview Comments
    Peter Mello
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    0

    It has an abundance of features, all packed into a dense UI that lets me pick and choose what information I need at any given moment.

    • XnView MP is Free Personal and ProprietaryGwenview is Free and Open Source
  2. digiKam icon
     358 likes

    digiKam is an advanced digital photo management tool that simplifies importing and organizing photos into albums. It supports various formats including RAW, features tagging, metadata management, duplicate finder, photo editing, sharing, GPS data handling, and has cross-platform compatibility.

    106 digiKam alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • KDE Plasma
    • Flathub
    • Qt
     
  3. nomacs icon
     243 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.

    97 nomacs alternatives

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
    • Flathub
     
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    nomacs vs Gwenview Comments
    Guest
    Positive
    2

    small size, can also manipulate images with surprisinly advanced tools

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • nomacs is Free and Open SourceGwenview is also Free and Open Source
    • nomacs is CustomizableGwenview is not according to our users
  4. qView icon
     81 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.

    110 qView alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  5. qimgv icon
     42 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.

    112 qimgv alternatives

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    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. gThumb icon
     104 likes

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

    121 gThumb alternatives

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
     
  7. Pix icon
     11 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.

    72 Pix alternatives

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    • Linux
     
  8. Eye of GNOME icon
     49 likes

    Eye of GNOME is the official image viewer for the GNOME Desktop environment. With it, you can view single image files, as well as large image collections. The Eye of GNOME supports a variety of image file formats.

    91 Eye of GNOME alternatives

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
     
  9. PhotoQt icon
     32 likes

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

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  10. QuickViewer icon
     20 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.

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. Oculante icon
     4 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • FreeBSD
    • BSD
    • NetBSD
     
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