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Open Source IrfanView Alternatives

The best open source alternative to IrfanView is nomacs. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to IrfanView and loads of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to IrfanView are ImageGlass, JPEGView, qView and Gwenview.

IrfanView alternatives are mainly Image Viewers but may also be Photo Managers or Image Editors. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of IrfanView.
This page was last updated Jun 29, 2022
IrfanView
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  • Free Personal • Proprietary
  • Windows
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Fast and compact image viewer/converter trying to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals. Many supported...

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  1. 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.

    nomacs vs IrfanView opinions
    Most users think nomacs is a great alternative to IrfanView.
    KennethWilhelmsson

    nomacs is so far the best contender to irfanview. You can go through images and delete or keep. Scale and cut. Having some trouble with paste, but I hope that is a setting. Or an yet undiscovered feature.

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    Has possibilty to paste image from clipboard!

    Top positive comment  over 1 year ago
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    not supported on Catalina

    Top negative comment  over 2 years ago
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    No bloated user interface.

    Positive comment • over 1 year ago
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    Closest thing I've used so far to Irfanview on windoze. Quickly view, resize, crop and move on. Perfect for e-mailing work related photo's.

    Positive comment • over 3 years ago
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    yuriykaz

    Very fast and efficient open source multi platform image viewer!

    Positive comment • over 4 years ago
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    bnbaz

    open source, leightweight

    Positive comment • over 5 years ago
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  2. ImageGlass is a simple picture viewer with which you will be able to display your image collection in a very similar way to the one that Windows provides by default, but with some additional functions.

    Bundleware

    The first installer available on the website, presented by the author, "ImageGlass Spider", is bundleware. From the privacy policy: "Also, the software shares available resources with the Spider's customers, to pass traffic through your device."The author is aware of the problem and indecisive on what action to take. Since less experienced users would fall for the "Spider" edition, be careful when downloading this software.

    ImageGlass vs IrfanView opinions
    Almost everyone thinks ImageGlass is a great alternative to IrfanView.
    moxwel

    It's lightweight, and it looks more pretty than IrfanView

    Positive comment • about 1 year ago
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    s0me0ne

    Open source, supports more formats than any other viewer

    Positive comment • over 2 years ago
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    Shuunen

    Lightweight, minimalist & effective

    Positive comment • almost 3 years ago
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  4. JPEGView is a lean, fast and highly configurable viewer/editor for JPEG, BMP, PNG, WEBP, TGA, GIF and TIFF images with a minimal GUI.

    Discontinued

    This project hasn't been updated since 2018 and has since been forked with numerous updates at https://github.com/sylikc/jpegview

    JPEGView vs IrfanView opinions
    Almost everyone thinks JPEGView is a great alternative to IrfanView.
    madamek

    More features, less resource-savvy

    Positive comment • over 4 years ago
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    Best free for commercial use alternative to IrfanView. Small, fast, and better than the default Windows image viewer.

    Positive comment • over 6 years ago
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    michaelino

    It's fast and it doesn't eat as many resources as Irfan.

    Positive comment • over 3 years ago
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  5. qView

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    • Free • Open Source
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    qView is a Qt-based image viewer designed to be practical and minimal, available for Windows, macOS, and Linux

    qView vs IrfanView opinions
    pros, cons and recent comments

    IrfanView is not a simple viewer. Take all of what qView does away from IrfanView and you still have a complete program. qView appears to be a good program just not an alternative to IrfanView.

    Negative comment • 8 months ago
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    Only processes single images, no way to look at folders or organize.

    Negative comment • over 1 year ago
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  6. Gwenview

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    • Free • Open Source
    • Linux
    • KDE

    Gwenview is an image viewer for KDE. It can load and save all image formats supported by KDE, but Gwenview can also browse GIMP files (*.xcf).

    Some users think Gwenview is a great alternative to IrfanView, some don't.

  8. Qt5 image viewer with optional video support. Contribute to easymodo/qimgv development by creating an account on GitHub.

  9. gThumb is an image viewer and browser for the GNOME Desktop. It also includes an importer tool for transferring photos from cameras.

    gThumb vs IrfanView opinions
    Some users think gThumb is a great alternative to IrfanView, some don't.

    It lacks the simplicity and the 'just-works' feel of Irfan. gThumb keeps resizing images, doesn't respond logically to a scroll wheel and has an overal annoying interface.

    Negative comment • about 5 years ago
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    gThumb does not have some of the more important and convenient features found in IrfanView.

    Negative comment • over 3 years ago
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  10. PhotoQt

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    • Free • Open Source
    • Windows
    • Linux

    PhotoQt is a simple, yet powerful and good looking image viewer, written in Qt, published as open-source, and completely free.

  11. QuickViewer

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    • Free • Open Source
    • Windows
    • Linux

    QuickViewer is a graphic image viewer for comfortable browsing of many images.

    Discontinued

    The latest version (1.1.8) was released in December 2019.

  12. Eye of GNOME

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    • Free • Open Source
    • Linux

    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.

    Eye of GNOME vs IrfanView opinions
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    It is very bad and it is only for GNOME

    Negative comment • almost 2 years ago
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