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.
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The Best Open Source IrfanView AlternativesTop Image Viewers & Image Editors like IrfanView
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.
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100 nomacs alternatives
84 ImageGlass alternativesA feature-rich, simple-to-use app seamlessly integrated with a clean, minimal and modern user interface.
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Lightweight Simple Image Viewer with Slide show feature, Resize and Lossless-cut, Color correction, Rename, Multi-language and more...
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111 qView alternativesFast 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.
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93 Gwenview alternativesOffers 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.
PicView is a fast, free and fully customizable picture viewer for macOS and Windows 10/11. It supports virtually all image file types, including (animated) WEBP, (animated) GIF, SVG, AVIF, HEIC, PSD and many others.
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112 qimgv alternativesQt5 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.
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121 gThumb alternativesgThumb is an image viewer and browser for the GNOME Desktop. It also includes an importer tool for transferring photos from cameras.
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Desktop app for photo sorting on Windows & Mac, managing JPG+RAW files. Sort photos into folders using keys, providing easy navigation and clean interface without deletion, ensuring a focused experience with flexible viewing, safe storage, and no fluff.
73 Pix alternativesAn 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.
35 ExifToolGUI alternativesGraphical user interface to ExifTool for reading and writing metadata in images.
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.
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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.