Open Source PictureViewer AlternativesImage Viewers and other similar apps like PictureViewer

The best open source alternative to PictureViewer is ImageMagick. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to PictureViewer and 15 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to PictureViewer are qView, Gwenview, JPEGView and PicView.

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  1. ImageMagick icon
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    ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a variety of formats (about 100) including GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PNG, PDF, PhotoCD, TIFF, and DPX.

    88 ImageMagick alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Xfce
     
  2. qView icon
     87 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.

    111 qView alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  3. Gwenview icon
     95 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.

    93 Gwenview alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
     
  4. JPEGView icon
     150 likes

    Lightweight Simple Image Viewer with Slide show feature, Resize and Lossless-cut, Color correction, Rename, Multi-language and more...

    141 JPEGView alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
  5. PicView icon
     50 likes

    PicView is a fast, free and fully customizable picture viewer for macOS and Windows 10/11. It supports virtually all image file types, including (animated) WEBP, (animated) GIF, SVG, AVIF, HEIC, PSD and many others.

    64 PicView alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
     
  6. 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

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
     
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    Image viewer for Wayland.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
  8. 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
     
  9. feh icon
     26 likes

    feh is an X11 image viewer aimed mostly at console users. Unlike most other viewers, it does not have a fancy GUI, but simply displays images. It is controlled via commandline arguments and configurable key/mouse actions.

    51 feh alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  10. Xviewer icon
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    Xviewer is a simple image viewer which uses the gdk-pixbuf library. It can deal with large images, and zoom and scroll with constant memory usage. Its goals are simplicity and standards compliance. Xviewer is installed by default in Linux Mint.

    90 Xviewer alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Linux Mint
     
  11. Viewnior icon
     34 likes

    Its minimalistic interface provides more screenspace for your images. Among its features are:

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
     
  12. sxiv icon
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    sxiv is a simple image viewer for X. It only has the most basic features required for fast image viewing.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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