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XnView MP

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

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License model

  • Free PersonalProprietary

Application types

Country of Origin

  • FR flagFrance
  • European Union flagEU

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
4.4 / 5 Avg rating (33)
379likes
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Features

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  1.  Media library
  2.  Batch image manipulation
  3.  Batch Editing
  4.  Thumbnails
  5.  Ad-free
  6.  Sorting by tags
  7.  Multi Platform
  8.  Batch processing
  9.  EXIF Editing
  10.  Cross-Platform
  11.  Remove EXIF Data
  12.  Batch conversion
  13.  Photo effects
  14.  Watermark images
  15.  Geotagged Photos
  16.  File Tagging
  17.  Works Offline
  18.  Portable
  19.  Batch Rename Files
  20.  Multiple languages
  21.  Dark Mode
  22.  No Tracking
  23.  No registration required
  24.  RAW Photo Editors
  25.  Facial Recognition
  26.  Retouch photos
  27.  Image Conversion
  28.  Tagging
  29.  Shell integration

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XnView MP information

  • Developed by

    FR flagXnSoft
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Free Personal product.
  • Pricing

    One time purchase (perpetual license) ranging between $5 and $32.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.4 (33 ratings)
  • Alternatives

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  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • Armenian
    • Catalan; Valencian
    • Chinese
    • Czech
    • Danish
    • Dutch
    • Estonian
    • Finnish
    • French
    • German
    • Hungarian
    • Italian
    • Japanese
    • Korean
    • Norwegian
    • Polish
    • Portuguese
    • Romanian
    • Russian
    • Slovak
    • Slovene
    • Spanish
    • Swedish
    • Turkish
    • Ukrainian

Our users have written 30 comments and reviews about XnView MP, and it has gotten 379 likes

XnView MP was added to AlternativeTo by klischee on Jun 20, 2010 and this page was last updated Apr 8, 2025. XnView MP is sometimes referred to as XnViewMP.

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Comment summary: XnView MP is widely praised for its features like batch processing, image editing, and multi-monitor support, making it a strong free image viewer and manager. Its cross-platform compatibility and customization options are appreciated, but some users note startup delays on Windows due to its use of Qt libraries. Although not open-source, users admire its vast format support and plugin extendability. However, issues like limited file renaming and cluttered configuration are mentioned.
Top Positive Comment
Anamon
Jan 23, 2017
7

I've been using XnView as my main image viewer for many years, and XnViewMP by the same creators is to be its replacement and gets the main focus of development. The big new feature is that while XnView was a Windows-only application, XnViewMP also comes in versions for Linux and MacOS X ("MP" stands for multi-platform).

For several years, I kept XnView installed in parallel (which works without problem), as XnViewMP is a complete rewrite, and as such only gradually started reintroducing features I had gotten used to. As of the current versions, however (as of this writing, version 0.84 has been released), XnViewMP has really come of age and is a very complete, comfortable, and mostly stable image viewer and manager.

The manager portion is focussed around a file system browser with thumbnail view, and it offers many options to search, filter and categorise images. All the important metadata standards are supported, XnViewMP supports EXIF (read-only) and IPCT-IIM/XMP tags, so your applied edits work fine in other applications, as well. The program uses its own thumbnail catalog, so previews are cached and load quickly.

Many very useful management tools are available. For example, you can look for duplicate pictures, not just by finding exact copies of files but optionally also using a visual similarity metric, which for example can be useful to find slightly edited or cropped versions of a picture. XnViewMP has a powerful export feature to convert images to various formats, letting users choose many settings manually, supports direct uploading to FTP servers and some image hosting services, generating file lists, mosaics, multi-frame images, or capturing images from the screen or a website.

Of course there is a full-featured image viewer, with slideshow functionality. And it's one of the fastest viewers I've ever used! The only other viewer that I can think of which is in the same league, would be IrfanView. XnViewMP lets you quickly flip through images in a folder or a selection, zoom and rotate, and even display alpha channels, helpful grids, and histograms. If you need to crop pictures or copy content to other applications, there are tools to fix the size or aspect ratio of the selection rectangle. This is one of the few areas where XnView's options are still superior, but it's still very helpful and appreciated.

A pretty nice set of editing tools is available as well. From the standards of cropping, rotating, scaling, mirroring etc. to basic colour corrections and manipulations (contrast, brightness, gamma, saturation etc.) to a few basic (blur, sharpness, denoise) and artistic (sepia, vignette) filters. There's red-eye correction, and even some basic drawing tools to, for instance, put annotations or censor parts of an image. Although I haven't used it, it's even supposed to support Photoshop plug-ins.

Easily one of the most powerful features is the batch processing dialog. Make any selection of images, and go through the three steps of configuration: Input lets you add and remove images and entire folders, and set filters to decide which images your modifications will apply to; Processing allows you to set up a chain of editing steps from a selection of over 80 processing options, each with various parameters to set up; and Output decides where and in what format the resulting images should be saved – anything from overwriting the originals, to setting up automatic folders and file names while converting to different formats and stripping certain metadata.

As an image viewer, XnViewMP is right up there with IrfanView at the top of its class. As a picture manager, it is powerful, customizable, and fast. And as a basic editor with powerful batch processing, in many cases it is the only post-processing software I need for my photos, from actual corrections and edits right up to exporting them for upload. And maybe best of all, it's a true PC desktop software, with a powerful preferences dialog that lets you customise and adopt to your own way of working. None of that dumbed-down touchscreen nonsense here, you are in control. I wholeheartedly recommend you give it a try!

Korwin
Mar 8, 2025
0

A very inconsistent product. The declared functionality amazes with its diversity. But how unstable the result is, and how internally inconsistent it is, is astounding. A monstrous mountain of crooked crutches, slow, with an unclear logic of interface dependencies, crashing on Windows 10 with an error at least once a day.

lau22
Sep 11, 2024
-1

By far the best photo management software. It's been around for a long time, it's free, and it works extremely well.

G-D-B-9-9
Jul 30, 2024
-1

Organizing, tagging, rating, pruning, similars and reverse finding ~ all management is fast and easy - no other app can do this. Editing and conversion options are professional as well as many batch operations - fast and robust. GUI can be changed to liking an app is extendable with built in plugins and get/do more.

DirkF3
Feb 27, 2024
-1

I love Xnview MP. For the Mac it is the best batch converter. One of the best features is "Keep original date/timestamp". And there's a lot more (like Avif support)

Lehuga ntaps
Jan 23, 2024
-1

It's one of the best photo viewer and editor in one package, especially with batch processing and muli tab viewer I've tried faststone and irfanview for years but turns out this one it's combine both with much better and polished way Absolutely recommended app

strokesspace
Oct 17, 2023
-1

Oh my good, exactly what I was looking for

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What is XnView MP?

XnViewMP is a free software to view, organise, convert graphics and photos files or to create slide show, contact sheet, HTML pages.

Compared to the original XnView, notable features in XnView MP have been re-tweaked, enhanced and visually re-styled. XnView MP is intended to have a unified look and feel across all platforms it runs on. All core features and functionalities of the standard XnView 1.9x are all still present in XnView MP, whilst some features are scheduled to be re-introduced.

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