


PicView is described as 'Fast, free and fully customizable picture viewer for macOS and Windows 10/11. It supports virtually all image file types, including (animated) WEBP, (animated) GIF, SVG, AVIF, HEIC, PSD and many others' and is a popular Image Viewer in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 50 alternatives to PicView for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Flathub and PortableApps.com apps. The best PicView alternative is IrfanView. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try IrfanView or XnView MP. Other great apps like PicView are nomacs, FastStone Image Viewer, XnView Classic and Gwenview.






Imagot is an image viewer which aims to provide an open source alternative to Microsoft Photos or similar apps (and be multiplatform). It supports common image file types such as PNG, JPEG, SVG, etc.




Electro is a blazingly fast image viewer built with Rust, featuring an integrated terminal for enhanced productivity.

I realized I was spending a lot of time waiting for JPEGs to open, and the default viewer on my system wasnt really hot with large files. I take a lot of digital camera pictures, and viewing a few megapixels in a web browser is ugly.


Hardware accelerated image viewer and image sequence player. It supports a large variety of formats, including many camera RAW images.


“Smart SVG Viewer” is a free, fast and convenient SVG image viewer with Thumbnail Gallery and Transparency Grid. It is a must-have tool for UI/UX design, Web design, and Graphic design.

Fullscreen Photo Viewer is a program designed for high-quality viewing of high-resolution pictures on the computer screen. It renders the image using advanced scaling algorithm to fit the resolution of your monitor.

Basic Photo Viewer is a free image viewing app for Windows 10 with an optional Pro upgrade, offering a minimalist fullscreen photo viewing experience, with customization and export features.




Frameless is a borderless, captionless image viewer with commandline options for display placement.

This program was developed at first to show automatically a slide show of all the pictures of a given directory in full screen mode on machines devoid of interfaces keyboard/mouse. In that case, no user operation is possible, that is why the program's interface is minimal.
