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Geeqie Image Viewer

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Geeqie is a free open software image viewer and organiser program for Linux, FreeBSD and other Unix-like operating systems.

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License model

  • Free • Open Source

Application types

Country of Origin

  • CZ flagCzechia
  • European Union flagEU

Platforms

  • Mac  via MacPorts: [https://ports.macports.org/port/geeqie/](https://ports.macports.org/port/geeqie/)
  • Linux  App-Images available: [https://github.com/BestImageViewer/geeqie/releases](https://github.com/BestImageViewer/geeqie/releases)
  • BSD
  • Xfce
  • Flathub
  • Homebrew  [https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/geeqie](https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/geeqie)
  • Windows  [https://github.com/BestImageViewer/geeqie#Windows](https://github.com/BestImageViewer/geeqie#Windows)
  • NetBSD  [https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/graphics/geeqie/index.html](https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/graphics/geeqie/index.html)
  • FreeBSD  [https://www.freshports.org/graphics/geeqie/](https://www.freshports.org/graphics/geeqie/)
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Properties

  1.  Lightweight
  2.  Privacy focused

Features

  1.  Works Offline
  2.  No registration required
  3.  Dark Mode
  4.  Multi-selection
  5.  Image Comparison

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Geeqie Image Viewer information

  • Developed by

    CZ flagbruclik, nadvornik

  • Licensing

    Open Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.

  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4

  • Alternatives

    100 alternatives listed

  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Photos & Graphics

GitHub repository

  •  529 Stars
  •  86 Forks
  •  267 Open Issues
  •   Updated Jun 15, 2025 
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Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about Geeqie Image Viewer, and it has gotten 51 likes

Geeqie Image Viewer was added to AlternativeTo by hennr on Feb 20, 2010 and this page was last updated May 19, 2025. Geeqie Image Viewer is sometimes referred to as Geeqie, GQView.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
joseluis
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Sep 20, 2019
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The fastests, most versatile, customizable, reliable and lightweight photo viewer and organizer.

Top Negative Comment
jamesbond1
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Jan 18, 2015
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Goods:

  • doesn't look like modern ugly GTK3 applications
  • picture management
  • accepts EXIF, allows to preview the page output exactly

Bads:

  • uses only outdated LPR protocol. You basically have very primitive page sizes, driver is not asked for which pages it supports. And no further printing options, except DPI setting - which is actually useless.
  • does not print with HP N911a, it just hangs. Printer lights up but nothing on display, the print queque is empty, trying to reprint results in SEGPIPE.

Do not recommend, if you are for printing.

keofox
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Dec 1, 2023
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It could have a better packaging for MacOS (I had to create my .app bundle and set GTK_THEME=Adwaita:dark environment variable to make it dark. But other than that it is my go-to image viewer for both Linux and MacOS. It has all the features I need for previewing images in a directory.

What is Geeqie Image Viewer?

Geeqie is a lightweight Gtk+ based image viewer for Unix like operating systems. It was forked from GQview. The development is focused on features for photo collection maintenance: raw format, Exif/IPTC/XMP metadata and integration with programs like UFraw, ImageMagick, Gimp, gPhoto or ExifTool.

Main features

  • EXIF, IPTC and XMP metadata browsing and editing
  • interoperability, easy integration with other software
  • geeqie works on files and directories, there is no need to import images
  • fast preview for many raw image formats
  • tools for image comparison, sorting and managing photo collection

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