Universal Viewer Alternatives

Universal Viewer has been discontinued. Similar apps include nomacs, which is free and open source. Other options are Evince, qView, MPC-BE and PicView. PDF Readers like Universal Viewer are a crowded field, with more than 100 alternatives for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and the web.

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  1. Ashampoo PDF Free is a software for opening, reading, and creating PDF files. It includes a built-in printer driver for generating PDFs from any Windows application, a compact and fast PDF reader, and the ability to fill out interactive and static forms.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  2. Xviewer icon
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    Xviewer is a simple image viewer which uses the gdk-pixbuf library. It can deal with large images, and zoom and scroll with constant memory usage. Its goals are simplicity and standards compliance. Xviewer is installed by default in Linux Mint.

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Linux Mint
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  3. DocInspector icon
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    DocInspector is a professional, offline-first document processing and privacy-auditing application designed for legal, financial, and corporate teams. It enables users to clean, repair, and bundle large volumes of documents locally without relying on cloud services.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
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  4. A native hardware-accelerated Windows SVG thumbnail handler for File Explorer that uses only the Windows API, written in Rust.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  5. Extension module for Windows Explorer to render SVG thumbnails, so that you can have an overview of your SVG files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. Imagot icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
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  7. VidShrink icon
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    Play, convert, and shrink videos to an exact target size. Offline, adaptive calibration, VMAF-measured. .NET 8 + Avalonia + ffmpeg, Windows.

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    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
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  8. PDFChef icon
     3 likes

    PDFChef enhances document management with cross-platform support on PC, Mac, iOS, and browsers. It offers text-editing, page rearranging, conversion tools, and cloud-based sharing. Supporting various file formats, it also enables users to add signatures directly to PDFs for swift document finalization.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
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  9. The simplest PDF viewer. Safe (doesn't require permissions), lightweight (just 6,9MB) and modern.

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    Platforms

    • Android
    • HUAWEI AppGallery
    • F-Droid
    • Kindle Fire
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  10. SimplePDF icon
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    Simple macOS PDF reader with ChatGPT integrated. You can chat with your local PDF. The returned response can cite the page number to ensure correctness.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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  11. Caxton icon
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    Caxton is a native Mac workbench for text and data files of any size. Every delimited file opens as text and as a typed grid, edits made in either view show in the other, and saving writes the same file back. Nothing is imported anywhere.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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