A feature-rich, simple-to-use app seamlessly integrated with a clean, minimal and modern user interface.
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Open Source Microsoft Photos Alternatives for Linux
Microsoft Photos 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 ImageGlass. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Microsoft Photos 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 Microsoft Photos are nomacs, qView, Gwenview and qimgv.
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Microsoft Photos 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 + Open Source, Windows + Open Source, Open Source, Windows and Photo Organization. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Microsoft Photos.
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85 ImageGlass alternatives
100 nomacs alternativesnomacs 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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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.
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.
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)
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- Linux
- Mac
- Windows
- Flathub
- Flatpak
- FreeBSD
- BSD
- NetBSD
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.
Koko is an image viewer designed for desktop and mobile touch devices. It is part of the Plasma Mobile app collection.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (LGPL-2.1)
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Platforms
- Linux
- KDE Plasma
- Linux Mobile
- Flathub
- Plasma Mobile
- Flatpak
ImageFan Reloaded is a cross-platform, feature-rich, tab-based image viewer, supporting multi-core processing.
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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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Does not have full-fledged library/album support.