IrfanView Alternatives for LinuxFiltered by 'Portable'

IrfanView is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux 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 14 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to IrfanView are qView, Gwenview, qimgv and Eye of GNOME.

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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, Mac, Linux + Open Source, 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. XnView MP icon
     400 likes

    Comprehensive photo management software for viewing, batch converting, editing and resizing images and creating thumbnail sheets.

    148 XnView MP alternatives

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    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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  2. nomacs icon
     247 likes

    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.

    98 nomacs alternatives

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
    • Flathub
     
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  3. ImageGlass icon
     249 likes

    A feature-rich, simple-to-use app seamlessly integrated with a clean, minimal and modern user interface.

    83 ImageGlass alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
     
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  4. qView icon
     82 likes

    Fast 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.

    110 qView alternatives

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    • Flathub
     
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  5. Gwenview icon
     92 likes

    Offers 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.

    93 Gwenview alternatives

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    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
     
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  6. qimgv icon
     42 likes

    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.

    112 qimgv alternatives

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    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. Eye of GNOME icon
     49 likes

    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.

    91 Eye of GNOME alternatives

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
     
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  8. QuickViewer icon
     20 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. ImageFan Reloaded is a cross-platform, feature-rich, tab-based image viewer, supporting multi-core processing.

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  10. µPhotos icon
     2 likes

    µPhotos is a fast OpenGL-based cross platform immersive photo viewer and organizer. Here is a list of features, that make µPhotos special:

    14 µPhotos alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
     
  11. imv icon
     2 likes

    imv is a command line image viewer intended for use with tiling window managers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Linux
     
  12. qAllInOne icon
     12 likes

    qAllInOne (aka qAIO) is a free open-source software built using Qt to provide users an All-In-One media player, so it can view images, play videos and audio.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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