sxiv is a simple image viewer for X. It only has the most basic features required for fast image viewing.
Eye of GNOME Alternatives
Eye of GNOME is described as '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' and is a Image Viewer in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Eye of GNOME for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Flathub and Flatpak apps. The best Eye of GNOME alternative is IrfanView. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try IrfanView or XnView MP. Other great apps like Eye of GNOME are nomacs, FastStone Image Viewer, XnView Classic and qView.
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WinQuickLook allows you to select a file in Windows Explorer or on your desktop and then simply press the spacebar to see the contents of the file without having to open it with a special application.
Cost / License
- Pay once
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Platforms
- Windows



- 50 ViewPic alternatives
ViewPic is a lightning fast and image viewer for Mac OS X, you can quickly browse through all images in a folder.


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Designed to be a comprehensive image viewer, Tacent View supports TGA, PNG, APNG, EXR, DDS, GIF, HDR, JPG, TIFF, ICO, WebP, and BMP files. Uses Dear ImGui, OpenGL, and Tacent. Useful for game devs as it displays information like the presence of an alpha channel and querying...


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Gimmage is a small gtk image viewer, perfect for command line usage as it accepts directories and image filenames as arguments. It also has a filechooser integrated into the main UI, making accessing images and directories a snap.
GLiv is an OpenGL image viewer. Image loading is done via Gdk-pixbuf bundled with GTK+-2.6, rendering with OpenGL, and the graphical user interface uses GTK+ with GtkGLExt.



Electro is a blazingly fast image viewer built with Rust, featuring an integrated terminal for enhanced productivity.

Imagot is an image viewer which aims to provide an open source alternative to Microsoft Photos or similar apps (and be multiplatform). It supports common image file types such as PNG, JPEG, SVG, etc.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (AGPL-3.0)
Application types
Platforms
- Linux
- Flathub
- Flatpak
- Windows
- Mac
- Android
- Android Tablet


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LeafView is a lightweight, cross-platform image viewer with smooth zoom, folder browsing, and grid view, built with Electron and Leaflet.js.


- 69 Sequential alternatives
Sequential is an image viewer for Mac OS X. It was originally designed for opening a folder of images and displaying them in order. It works well for viewing comics and manga.

Free Online Image Editor and Converter. Supports 500 image formats. Has built-in clip-art library (public domain photos).

Tom's Editor is the most popular Web-based alternative to Eye of GNOME.
- Tom's Editor is Free and Proprietary
























