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 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 many of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to XnView Classic are Gwenview, qimgv, Shotwell and gThumb.

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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. XnView MP icon
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    Comprehensive photo management software for viewing, batch converting, editing and resizing images and creating thumbnail sheets.

    145 XnView MP alternatives

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    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    One word! Just fantastic tool with all the features that you need!

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • XnView MP is Free Personal and ProprietaryXnView Classic is also Free Personal and Proprietary
  2. nomacs icon
     243 likes

    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
     
  3. qView icon
     81 likes

    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.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  4. Gwenview icon
     91 likes

    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
     
  5. qimgv icon
     42 likes

    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.

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    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. 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.

    121 gThumb alternatives

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
     
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    gThumb vs XnView Classic Comments
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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
  7. 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
     
  8. Tonfotos icon
     99 likes

    Tonfotos simplifies browsing of large photo collection by grouping shots by events, dates, people, locations and so on. Quickly find what you need regardless where files are stored - on your computer, external drives or NAS.

    27 Tonfotos alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. QuickViewer icon
     20 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. 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.

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
     
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