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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Open Source IrfanView Alternatives for Linux
IrfanView is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best open source Linux alternative is nomacs. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to IrfanView and many of them are open source and available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source Linux alternatives to IrfanView are ImageGlass, qView, Gwenview and qimgv.
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98 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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110 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.
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.
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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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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.
91 Eye of GNOME alternativesEye 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.
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.
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- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
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- Flathub
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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.
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57 PhotoQt alternativesPhotoQt is a fast and simple, good looking, yet powerful and highly configurable image viewer.
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110 Geeqie Image Viewer alternativesGeeqie is a free open software image viewer and organiser program for Linux, FreeBSD and other Unix-like operating systems.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
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- Mac
- Linux
- BSD
- Xfce
- Flathub
- Homebrew
- Windows
- NetBSD
- FreeBSD
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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.