ImageMagick AlternativesImage Optimizers & Image Converters like ImageMagick

ImageMagick is described as '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' and is a very popular Image Optimizer in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 50 alternatives to ImageMagick for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and SaaS apps. The best ImageMagick alternative is File Converter, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like ImageMagick are JPEGView, XnConvert, Dinky and G'MIC.

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  1. File Converter icon
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    File Converter is a very simple tool which allows you to convert and compress one or several file(s) using the context menu in Windows Explorer.

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • File Explorer
     
  2. JPEGView icon
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    Lightweight Simple Image Viewer with Slide show feature, Resize and Lossless-cut, Color correction, Rename, Multi-language and more...

    150 JPEGView alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
  3. XnConvert icon
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    XnConvert is an easy image converter for graphic files, photos and images available on Windows, MacOSX and Linux.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. Dinky icon
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    Free macOS tool for compressing images, videos, and PDFs—just drag and drop to support numerous formats, flatten or rewrite PDFs, remove metadata, set size targets, preserve quality, and save compressed files alongside originals without internet required.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  5. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Krita
    • GIMP
    • C++
     
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    It isn't better than Imagemagick, but it's an extremely powerful tool and unlike IM it can be installed into GIMP, making it more powerful than Photoshop.

    • G'MIC is Free and Open SourceImageMagick is also Free and Open Source
    • G'MIC is an Image Editor ImageMagick is an Image Optimizer
  6. 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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    command line based and does many of the same functions as ImageMagick. The command line interface is easier to understand then ImageMagick and it is extremely fast.

    • GraphicsMagick is Free and Open SourceImageMagick is also Free and Open Source
  7. 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.

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
    • Linux Mobile
     
  8. 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.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  9. 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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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • FreeBSD
     
  10. Preview icon
     123 likes

    Native macOS app for viewing, annotating, and editing images and PDFs, featuring tools for cropping, rotating, resizing images, rearranging pages, full-screen viewing, markup, document merging, batch conversion, and export in multiple formats.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  11. Imagine icon
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    Imagine is an Image & Animation Viewer for Windows with screen capture function.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Mobile
     
  12. RasterFox icon
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    Compress images with pixel-perfect precision using advanced algorithms that preserve quality while dramatically reducing file sizes.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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