nomacs Alternatives

nomacs is described as 'Free, open source image viewer, which supports multiple platforms. You can use it for viewing all common image formats including RAW and psd images' and is a very popular Image Viewer in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 50 alternatives to nomacs for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Flathub and PortableApps.com apps. The best nomacs alternative is IrfanView. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try ImageGlass or qView. Other great apps like nomacs are XnView MP, FastStone Image Viewer, XnView Classic and JPEGView.

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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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nomacs alternatives page was last updated Mar 21, 2025
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  1. Preview icon
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    Preview is a simple and elegant application by Apple for viewing and working with images and PDF documents.

    157 Preview alternatives

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Fill PDF Forms
    2.  Edit PDF
    3.  Image resizing
    4.  Built-in Image converter
    5.  PDF annotation
    6.  Combine PDF

    Preview VS nomacs

     
  2. gThumb icon
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    gThumb is an image viewer and browser for the GNOME Desktop. It also includes an importer tool for transferring photos from cameras.

    118 gThumb alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME

    Properties

    1.  Privacy focused

    Features

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  Works Offline
    3.  WEBP Support
    4.  In built video player
    5.  Search metadata
    6.  Photo selection
    7.  Slide Show
    8.  Image browser
    9.  Thumbnails

    gThumb VS nomacs

     
  3. Apple Photos icon
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    Photos is a digital photograph manipulation application developed by Apple, intended to be less complex than its predecessor iPhoto .

    107 Apple Photos alternatives

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Online
    • iPhone
    • iPad

    Apple Photos Features

    1.  Facial Recognition
    2.  Geotagged Photos
    3.  Smart Albums
    4.  RAW Photo Editors
    5.  Non Destructive Editing
    6.  Hidden Photo Album
    7.  Built-in Photo editor
    8.  Raw converter
    9.  3rd-party filters

    Apple Photos VS nomacs

     
    • Apple Photos is the most popular Web-based alternative to nomacs.

    • Apple Photos is Free and Proprietarynomacs is Free and Open Source
  4. FlowVision icon
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    Waterfall-style image viewer for macOS, offering a smooth and immersive browsing experience.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  Privacy focused

    Features

    1.  Works Offline
    2.  Dark Mode
    3.  No registration required
    4.  Ad-free
    5.  No Tracking

    FlowVision VS nomacs

     
  5. Pixyway icon
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    Pixyway is a fresh new picture viewer for Windows. It has been designed to be an 'everyday' picture viewer tool like Google Picasa viewer used to be! By the way, if you liked Picasa viewer, you will notice some references to it.

    License model

    • Free PersonalProprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Pixyway Features

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  No Tracking
    3.  Dark Mode
    4.  Geotagging
    5.  Built-in viewer
    6.  Non Destructive Editing
    7.  Works Offline

    Pixyway VS nomacs

     
  6. Musebox icon
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    Organize, edit, and share your photography and digital media with ease.

    License model

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac

    Top Musebox Features

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  File Tagging
    3.  Dark Mode
    4.  No registration required
    5.  Works Offline
    6.  Export Presets
    7.  Content Filtering
    8.  Video library
    9.  HDR10
    10. iCloud icon  ICloud Integration
    11.  HDR Support
    12.  No Subscription

    Musebox VS nomacs

     
  7. PhoXoSee icon
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    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.

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • CN flagChina

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Properties

    1.  Privacy focused
    2.  Support for Themes
    3.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  No registration required
    2.  Hardware Accelerated
    3.  Batch Editing
    4.  Works Offline
    5.  Ad-free
    6.  Dark Mode
    7.  No Tracking

    PhoXoSee VS nomacs

     
  8. Eye of GNOME icon
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    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.

    84 Eye of GNOME alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME

    Properties

    1.  Privacy focused
    2.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  Portable
    3.  Dark Mode
    4.  Works Offline

    Eye of GNOME VS nomacs

     
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    Geeqie is a free open software image viewer and organiser program for Linux, FreeBSD and other Unix-like operating systems.

    100 Geeqie Image Viewer alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • CZ flagCzechia
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Xfce
    • Flathub
    • Homebrew
    • Windows
    • NetBSD
    • FreeBSD

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  Privacy focused

    Features

    1.  Works Offline
    2.  No registration required
    3.  Dark Mode
    4.  Multi-selection
    5.  Image Comparison

    Geeqie Image Viewer VS nomacs

     
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    View directly, image pinning, diverse formats, and EXIF information. Optimized for viewing long images, the perfect mac platform image viewer.

    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac

    Picview - Image Photo Browser Features

    1.  RAW Photo Editors
    2.  Image zoom

    Picview - Image Photo Browser VS nomacs

     
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    You can use the Photos app to view or edit photos and videos in your Pictures library and on OneDrive, and to import photos and videos. The Photos app includes a wide range of editing options to enhance your photos, from automatic fixes to advanced adjustments.

    115 Microsoft Photos alternatives

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Phone

    Microsoft Photos Features

    1.  Facial Recognition
    2.  Dark Mode
    3.  Remove Image Background
    4.  Trim video
    5.  WEBP Support
    6.  Matroska
    7.  Cut video
    8.  Bundled with Windows
    9.  Photographic filters

    Microsoft Photos VS nomacs

     
  12. PhotoQt icon
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    PhotoQt is a simple, yet powerful and good looking image viewer, written in Qt, published as open-source, and completely free.

    50 PhotoQt alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux

    PhotoQt VS nomacs

     
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