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.

XnView Classic is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is XnView MP. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try XnView MP or nomacs. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to XnView Classic and loads of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to XnView Classic are qView, Gwenview, qimgv and Shotwell.
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.

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.


Geeqie is a free open software image viewer and organiser program for Linux, FreeBSD and other Unix-like operating systems.



Picturama is a free and open-source image organizer for the desktop built on Electron and powered by web technology.




ImageFan Reloaded is a cross-platform, feature-rich, tab-based image viewer, supporting multi-core processing.




feh is an X11 image viewer aimed mostly at console users. Unlike most other viewers, it does not have a fancy GUI, but simply displays images. It is controlled via commandline arguments and configurable key/mouse actions.



µPhotos is a fast OpenGL-based cross platform immersive photo viewer and organizer. Here is a list of features, that make µPhotos special:

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.



Its minimalistic interface provides more screenspace for your images. Among its features are:

sxiv is a simple image viewer for X. It only has the most basic features required for fast image viewing.