IrfanView Alternatives for Windows

There are many alternatives to IrfanView for Windows if you are looking for a replacement. The best Windows alternative is XnView MP. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try XnView MP or nomacs. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to IrfanView and loads of them are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to IrfanView are ImageGlass, XnView Classic, JPEGView and qView.

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IrfanView alternatives are mainly Image Viewers, but if you're looking for Image Editors or Photo Managers you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Linux, Android, Linux + Open Source, Mac, Open Source, Image Editors and Android + Open Source. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to IrfanView.
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  1. Tonfotos icon
     100 likes

    Tonfotos simplifies browsing of large photo collection by grouping shots by events, dates, people, locations and so on. Quickly find what you need regardless where files are stored - on your computer, external drives or NAS.

    28 Tonfotos alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Tonfotos vs IrfanView Comments
    tomater
    Positive
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    Has very useful features such as import images from smartphone and duplicates detection.

    • Tonfotos is Free Personal and ProprietaryIrfanView is also Free Personal and Proprietary
  2. Oculante icon
     4 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • FreeBSD
    • BSD
    • NetBSD
     
  3. Geeqie is a free open software image viewer and organiser program for Linux, FreeBSD and other Unix-like operating systems.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Xfce
    • Flathub
    • Homebrew
    • Windows
    • NetBSD
    • FreeBSD
     
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    Geeqie Image Viewer vs IrfanView Comments
    Guest
    Positive
    0

    Selecting Images for a collection (e.g. Calendar) is easy and works super fast with the keyboard. And another keystroke copies all selected images in a separate folder for printing.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Geeqie Image Viewer is Free and Open SourceIrfanView is Free Personal and Proprietary
    • Geeqie Image Viewer is Privacy focusedIrfanView is not according to our users
  4. ImageFan Reloaded is a cross-platform, feature-rich, tab-based image viewer, supporting multi-core processing.

    Cost / License

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  5. Unifie icon
     4 likes

    Unifie is a fast, thumbnail-focused image viewer with dual viewing surface that lets you see two folders of images side-by-side for easy comparison.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. Phototheca icon
     25 likes

    Helps manage extensive photo collections with import tools, duplicate detection, smart albums, keyword tagging, timeline and calendar views, background customization, instant search, and fullscreen modes for an efficient and customizable photo organization experience.

    39 Phototheca alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. PhoXoSee icon
     4 likes

    PhoXoSee is a blazing fast and lightweight image viewer, Highly optimized at only 3.8MB in size, it brings you ultra-fast loading speeds and minimal memory usage. It features powerful real-time image processing that enhances your viewing experience.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Fly Photos icon
     3 likes

    Fly Photos is one of the fastest photo viewers built for Windows, designed as a modern replacement for the now-discontinued Google Picasa Photo Viewer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Image Eye icon
     15 likes

    Simplistic Image Viewer with focus on speed of rendering and switching between images. A good complement when no editing capabilities are nessesary.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. Chasys Draw IES is a suite of applications including a layer-based image editor with animation, icon editing support and super-resolution via image stacking (Chasys Draw IES Artist), a multi-threaded image file converter (Chasys Draw IES Converter), a fast image viewer (Chasys...

    55 Chasys Draw IES alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. FastStone MaxView is a fast, compact and innovative image viewer that supports all major graphic formats. Its intuitive layout lets you view images in a variety of ways. It even lets you view images in password-protected ZIP and RAR archive files directly and instantly, which is...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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