PicView
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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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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EUPlatforms
- Windows
- Mac
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Recent News
- Mauricio B. Holguin published news article about PicView
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Install from the command line
winget install -e --id Ruben2776.PicView
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Photos & Graphics, System & HardwareGitHub repository
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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).
Supports animated GIF/WEBP in comic CBZ/CBR formats.
...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.