gThumb Alternatives

gThumb is described as 'Image viewer and browser for the GNOME Desktop. It also includes an importer tool for transferring photos from cameras' and is a very popular Image Editor in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 100 alternatives to gThumb for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Flathub and Flatpak apps. The best gThumb alternative is IrfanView. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try IrfanView or XnView MP. Other great apps like gThumb are ImageGlass, nomacs, FastStone Image Viewer and XnView Classic.

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  1. A fast and powerful file browser, ideal for viewing RAW images, as well as searching and sorting your media libraries.

    58 ACDSee Free alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. ExifPro icon
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    ExifPro is an image browser application that can help you display, describe, tag, and manipulate your collection of photographs.

    65 ExifPro alternatives

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. Phototheca icon
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    Helps manage extensive photo collections with import tools, duplicate detection, smart albums, keyword tagging, timeline and calendar views, background customization, instant search, and fullscreen modes for an efficient and customizable photo organization experience.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. Xviewer icon
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    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.

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    • Linux
    • Linux Mint
     
  5. KPhotoAlbum icon
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    If you have hundreds or even thousands of images on your hard drive, it becomes impossible to remember the story behind every single image or the names of the persons photographed. KPhotoAlbum was created to help you describe your images and then search the big pile of pictures...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  6. opti icon
     7 likes

    simple, transparent media viewer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. Mylio Photos icon
     41 likes

    Integrates photos from various devices into a unified, organized library, syncing collections across Apple, Android, and Windows while preserving folder structures. Enables multi-platform editing, advanced search, sharing, RAW support, offline syncing, metadata tools, and secure management.

    164 Mylio Photos alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  8. Chasys Draw IES is a suite of applications including a layer-based image editor with animation, icon editing support and super-resolution via image stacking (Chasys Draw IES Artist), a multi-threaded image file converter (Chasys Draw IES Converter), a fast image viewer (Chasys...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Tropy icon
     5 likes

    Bring order to your research — use the power of Tropy to organize and describe your research photos so you can quickly find your sources whenever you need them, whether that’s days or years later.

    13 Tropy alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  10. Image Roll icon
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    A simple and fast GTK image viewer with basic image manipulation tools. Written in Rust.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  11. Loupe is a modern image viewer designed for the GNOME desktop environment, offering fast GPU-accelerated rendering, image editing and metadata viewing. It replaced .

    60 Loupe Image Viewer alternatives

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    • Linux
    • Linux Mobile
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
     
  12. Vipsdisp icon
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    Vipsdisp can display huge (many, many gigabyte) images quickly and without using much memory. As well as the usual PNG, JPG, TIF, PDF, SVG, WEBP, JP2, JXL and GIF, it supports many scientific and technical image formats, including SVS, MRXS, OpenEXR, FITS, Matlab, NIfTI...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Mac
    • Homebrew
     
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