Open Source XnView Classic Alternatives for Linux

XnView Classic is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best open source Linux alternative is nomacs. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to XnView Classic and many of them are open source and available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source Linux alternatives to XnView Classic are qView, Gwenview, qimgv and Shotwell.

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XnView Classic alternatives are mainly Image Viewers, but if you're looking for Image Editors or Photo Managers you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Mac, Linux and Open Source. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to XnView Classic.
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  1. nomacs icon
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    nomacs is a free, open source image viewer, which supports multiple platforms. You can use it for viewing all common image formats including RAW and psd images.

    97 nomacs alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
    • Flathub
     
  2. qView icon
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    Fast and lightweight Qt-based image viewer with support for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Features include multiple format support, customizable interface, GIF playback, high-resolution display compatibility, and efficient navigation through keyboard shortcuts.

    109 qView alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  3. Gwenview icon
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    Offers quick browsing and display of various image formats, basic editing tools like crop, rotate, lossless JPEG manipulation, folder browsing as thumbnails or slideshows, supports XCF, drag-and-drop, metadata viewing, KDE integration, and plugin extensions.

    93 Gwenview alternatives

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    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
     
  4. qimgv icon
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    Qt5 image viewer with optional video support. Ability to quickly copy / move images to different folders. Can open some extra formats (JPEG-XL, AVIF, APNG, HEIF/HEIC, RAW) via third-party image plugins.

    112 qimgv alternatives

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    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. gThumb icon
     104 likes

    gThumb is an image viewer and browser for the GNOME Desktop. It also includes an importer tool for transferring photos from cameras.

    122 gThumb alternatives

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
     
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    Workflow is trash, and when saving quality is much worse. Also not the formats covered.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • gThumb is Free and Open SourceXnView Classic is Free Personal and Proprietary
    • gThumb is Privacy focusedXnView Classic is not according to our users
  6. Pix icon
     11 likes

    An image viewer and browser utility - primarily for Linux Mint. Pix is part of the X-Apps project, which aims at producing cross-distribution and cross-desktop software.

    72 Pix alternatives

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    • Linux
     
  7. QuickViewer icon
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    QuickViewer is a graphic image viewer for comfortable browsing of many images. This software performs reading of image data in advance. And drawing the imported image data on the screen with OpenGL. You can browse images with much smoother response than ever before.

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. Eye of GNOME icon
     49 likes

    Eye of GNOME is the official image viewer for the GNOME Desktop environment. With it, you can view single image files, as well as large image collections. The Eye of GNOME supports a variety of image file formats.

    91 Eye of GNOME alternatives

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
     
  9. Oculante icon
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    A no-nonsense hardware-accelerated image viewer. Oculante's vision is to be a fast, unobtrusive, portable image viewer with wide image format support, offering image analysis and basic editing tools.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • FreeBSD
    • BSD
    • NetBSD
     
  10. Geeqie is a free open software image viewer and organiser program for Linux, FreeBSD and other Unix-like operating systems.

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Xfce
    • Flathub
    • Homebrew
    • Windows
    • NetBSD
    • FreeBSD
     
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