PicView
PicView is a 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.
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Features
Properties
- Lightweight
- Privacy focused
- Customizable
Features
- Fullscreen support
- Image zoom
- Image Optimizer
- Image Conversion
- Lossless Compression
- Portable
- Dark Mode
- Multiple languages
- WEBP Support
- No registration required
- Ad-free
- Works Offline
- Live Preview
- Hardware Accelerated
- Batch Editing
- No Tracking
- Borderless
- Batch processing
Tags
- Resize Images
- image-gallery
PicView News & Activities
Recent News
- Maoholguin published news article about PicView
PicView 4.0 launches with updated zoom, image search, navigation & print preview featuresPicView 4.0 brings a rebuilt zoom system with a preview window that shows the full image while zoom...
Recent activities
- eirenar929 reviewed PicView
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- eirenar929 added Live Preview as a feature to PicView
- eirenar929 liked PicView
ddnn added PicView as alternative to Xviewer and Eye of GNOME- Ruben2776 updated PicView
- Ruben2776 replied to a comment / review on PicView
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- TBayAreaPat reviewed PicView
Best I've ever seen ability to switch image view to well-displayed thumbnail browser from the lower right icon.. can be a little slow for the images to load though. Great if you have many images with similar names and want a good way to choose. Note that the bottom icon is only present in full view mode vs compact viewer. PicView runs far heavier than FastStone viewer. And the strip/ film / bottom gallery has funky resizing techniques, which is too bad. I'm hoping to replace FastStone which...
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What is PicView?
PicView is a 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.
Additional features includes viewing EXIF metadata, image compression, batch resizing, viewing images within archives and comic books, image effects, image galleries, and more.
Enjoy a clean, free, and fast experience with no annoying pop-ups, and zero tracking. It works out of the box — or you can customize it to your needs.
Available in portable and installable versions.
PicView information
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Comments and Reviews
Best I've ever seen ability to switch image view to well-displayed thumbnail browser from the lower right icon.. can be a little slow for the images to load though. Great if you have many images with similar names and want a good way to choose. Note that the bottom icon is only present in full view mode vs compact viewer. PicView runs far heavier than FastStone viewer. And the strip/ film / bottom gallery has funky resizing techniques, which is too bad. I'm hoping to replace FastStone which will only do thumbnail strip in full size vs windowed view making it difficult to work with other programs at the same time.
I went for PicView as it claims to recognise .cr3 files. Well it doesn't so it's not much use to me.
The open file dialog (when you press Ctrl + O) was missing the option for .cr3, however you were always able to load them using drag and drop or copy and pasting the files, as well as selecting it as the default option in Windows. This has been fixed in version 2.0 and later. I'm sorry for the inconvenience caused
Thank you for responding. I checked and my .cr3 files are now being recognised. Thank you. The only problem is that some of the functions don't work with my files. For example, the "Optimise Image" function just throws up a really long "System - Invalid Operation Exception" message. As soon as I closed the error dialog the app crashed, as it did every other time I tried it. I performed the same operation with a .jpg version of the file and it worked fine. I'm not really much further forward, I'm afraid.
Version 2.2 has stability improvements for the Optimize image function, as well as showing an error tooltip message for unsupported files. Only JPEG, PNG and GIF are supported for lossless compression, I'm afraid.
If you want to further reduce the file size of the images, consider converting them to WEBP formats. If you rename a file's extension within PicView, the file will be converted as well. This works for .cr3, .cr2, .nef and other files as well. You can rename them by pressing F2 (by default).
...is Lite simple universal
I'm loving it, it's light, has great batch editing tools, however it's lacking support to animated avif, and if you are using scaled screen the windows with fixed size (like the one for batch editing) doesn't fit the screen properly.
Excellent UI including possibility to hide all elements but the image itself.
Blazing fast switching of images using scroll-wheel.
Portable version; no install required.
Free and open source!
It is about 250mb and has a lot of unnecessary features that any photo editor already has. But is not a fully fledged photo editor.
There have been significant work to reduce the application size. While the 1.x and 2.x did indeed take up 245mb on the x64 Windows builds, the 3.x versions has reduced that file size down to about a 130mb. And the new 4.0 release has it down to 83mb.
Tried a lot of alternatives to Irfanview, Liked this one. Especially like the viewer that slightly feels like the depreciated Picasa.