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 nomacs. 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 Gwenview, qimgv, gThumb and Pix.

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FastStone Image Viewer alternatives are mainly Image Viewers, but if you're looking for Image Editors or Photo Managers you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Linux, Android, Mac, Android + Image Viewer, Mac + Image Editors, Mac + Free and iPad. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to FastStone Image Viewer.
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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.

    144 XnView MP alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Comments about XnView MP as an Alternative to FastStone Image Viewer
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    Because, XnView have many functions and it's a multi platform application.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Most users think XnView MP is a great FastStone Image Viewer alternative.

    • XnView MP is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to FastStone Image Viewer.

    • XnView MP is the most popular free alternative to FastStone Image Viewer.

    • XnView MP is Free Personal and ProprietaryFastStone Image Viewer is also Free Personal and Proprietary
  2. nomacs icon
     241 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.

    96 nomacs alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
    • Flathub
     
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    Editing option are not great

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Most users think nomacs is a great FastStone Image Viewer alternative.

    • nomacs is the most popular Open Source alternative to FastStone Image Viewer.

    • nomacs is Free and Open SourceFastStone Image Viewer is Free Personal and Proprietary
    • nomacs is Customizable and Privacy focusedFastStone Image Viewer is not according to our users
  3. qView icon
     80 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
     
  4. Gwenview icon
     90 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

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    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
     
  5. qimgv icon
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    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.

    113 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.

    122 gThumb alternatives

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
     
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    Misses some key features, just too simple.

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    • Some users think gThumb is a great FastStone Image Viewer alternative, some don't.

    • gThumb is Free and Open SourceFastStone Image Viewer is Free Personal and Proprietary
    • gThumb is Privacy focusedFastStone Image Viewer is not according to our users
  7. Pix icon
     10 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.

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    • Linux
     
  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. Oculante icon
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    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.

    61 Oculante alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • FreeBSD
    • BSD
    • NetBSD
     
  10. Eye of GNOME icon
     48 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
     
  11. Tonfotos icon
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    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.

    27 Tonfotos alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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