ImageMagick Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to ImageMagick for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is XnConvert. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try XnConvert or G'MIC. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to ImageMagick and 18 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to ImageMagick are OptiImage, Converseen, Switcheroo Image Manipulation and nConvert.

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  1. G'MIC icon
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    G'MIC is a full-featured open-source framework for image processing, distributed under the CeCILL free software licenses (LGPL-like and/or GPL-compatible). It provides several different user interfaces to convert / manipulate / filter / visualize generic image datasets...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Krita
    • GIMP
    • C++
     
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  2. GraphicsMagick icon
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    GraphicsMagick is the swiss army knife of image processing. Comprised of 282K physical lines (according to David A. Wheelers SLOCCount) of source code in the base package (or 952K including 3rd party libraries) it provides a robust and efficient collection of tools and libraries...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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  3. OptiImage icon
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    Optimize PNG, JPEG, WebP, and SVG images efficiently with flexible lossless and lossy compression modes, metadata control, and safe mode to avoid data loss, using tools like oxipng, jpegoptim, scour, and cwebp, enhancing image storage and load efficiency.

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  4. Converseen icon
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    Converseen is a free cross-platform batch image processor for Windows and Linux that allows you to convert, resize, rotate and flip an infinite number of images with a mouse click.

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    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. Switcheroo is designed to give you a simple, quick, and easy-to-use tool to convert and manipulate your images in whatever way you like. It is built on top of the most advanced image editing libraries, ImageMagick.

    68 Switcheroo Image Manipulation alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
    • Linux Mobile
     
  6. nConvert icon
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    NConvert is a powerful command line multi-platform batch image processor with more than 80 commands. Compatible with 500 image formats.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
     
  7.  Like

    libvips is a demand-driven, horizontally threaded image processing library. Compared to similar libraries, libvips runs quickly and uses little memory. libvips is licensed under the LGPL 2.1+.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  8. Thumbor icon
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    Thumbor is a smart imaging service. It enables on-demand crop, resizing and flipping of images. It features a very smart detection of important points in the image for better cropping and resizing, using state-of-the-art face and feature detection algorithms (more on that in...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  9. Phatch icon
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    Phatch is an user friendly, cross-platform Photo Batch Processor and Exif Renamer with a nice graphical user interface. Phatch handles all popular image formats and can duplicate (sub)folder hierarchies.

    91 Phatch alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  10. pngquant icon
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    pngquant is a command-line utility and a library for lossy compression of PNG images.

    74 pngquant alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. Optimizt icon
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    Optimizt is a CLI tool that helps you prepare images during frontend development.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • npm
     
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