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Universal Viewer

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Universal Viewer is an advanced file viewer for wide range of formats. Supported file formats are:

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License model

  • Freemium • Proprietary

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Platforms

  • Windows
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NavPanel add-on, Word file opened
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Word file with images (Pro version)
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Discontinued

The latest version (6.7.9) is from 2021.

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Universal Viewer information

  • Developed by

    UVViewSoft

  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Freemium product.

  • Pricing

    One time purchase (perpetual license) ranging between $26 and $360 + free version with limited functionality.

  • Rating

    Average rating of 5

  • Alternatives

    160 alternatives listed

  • Supported Languages

    • English

Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about Universal Viewer, and it has gotten 22 likes

Universal Viewer was added to AlternativeTo by Danilo_Venom on Dec 5, 2011 and this page was last updated Jan 12, 2025.

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Dawid Ferenczy
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Top positive comment •Jul 27, 2021
• Edited Jul 27, 2021

Universal Viewer is awesome not only as a standalone application but also as an external viewer for Total Commander, where it replaces many Total Commander extensions needed for the internal Viewer to be able to render various file formats correctly. And it even supports the Total Commander's Viewer extensions so you may install support for additional file formats in (rare) case it doesn't support some!

The only issue may be that compared with the internal Viewer, the Universal Viewer is unfortunately not able to display big files.

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TBayAreaPat
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Pending approval • Edited Sep 10, 2024

It accepts Total Commander Plug-ins. Here's one for pdf files: https://totalcmd.net/plugring/pdfview.html Universal is great versatile tool for so many file types. With the pdf plug-in, Universal is very similar to Sumatra in running weight and quality. I find Universal's windowing easier to manage, though Sumatra has a "frequently viewed" option Universal doesn't.

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rbawri4
Comment •Apr 26, 2017

Universal Viewer is one of the BEST softwares that I have come across in all categories. It is extremely convenient and time saving as documents in all formats as well as images can be 'opened without opening'. The tardy process of opening each file contained in a folder, one at a time, is eliminated. For images other such viewers are aplently but for documents .. this is WOW ! Thank you for this priceless gift, UVViewSoft Developer.

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What is Universal Viewer?

Universal Viewer is an advanced file viewer for wide range of formats. Supported file formats are:

Images: all major graphics formats: JPG BMP ICO GIF PNG WMF TIFF PSD..., over 40 formats. Also RAW images from 400+ cameras are supported. Multimedia: all major media formats: AVI MPG WMV MP3 MP4 FLV MKV..., over 170 formats. Word: file types of MS Office Word: DOC DOCX. Excel: file types of MS Office Excel: XLS XLSX. PDF: Adobe PDF format, plus DJVU XPS CBR CBZ. RTF: Rich Text format. Internet: all file types supported by MS Internet Explorer: HTML XML MHT... Text: text view for unknown file types. Files of unlimited size can be shown (even 4Gb+ sizes are allowed). All major text encodings supported. Unicode/UTF-8 views are present. Plugins: all file types supported by Total Commander Lister plugins.

Universal Viewer Pro additional features/changes are:

support for Word, Excel files (including DOCX XLSX). MS Office not needed preinstalled PDF plugin. Adobe/Foxit Reader not needed new multimedia player, which supports over 170 formats. External codecs not needed support for complex RTF files (with images, tables...) support for RAW-images (from 400+ cameras) image panel with "Convert to" feature options added: option "Fit window to media size" search option "Highlight all matches" (Text mode) more NavPanel add-on doesn't need registration

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