ImageView Alternatives

ImageView is described as 'A reliable and smooth-running picture viewer for Mac. Comprehensible interface, adaptable controls system, come with basic editing functions (rotate, resize, etc.). One of the first installs on my Mac, never regreted choosing it' and is an app in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 10 alternatives to ImageView for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, PortableApps.com and Electron apps. The best ImageView alternative is FastStone Image Viewer. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try FastStone Image Viewer or JPEGView. Other great apps like ImageView are Preview, gThumb, Zoner Studio and Excire Foto.

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Alternatives list

  1. Fast image browser and editor for Windows with robust support for browsing, editing, and conversion. Features red-eye removal, resizing, enhanced EXIF access, and musical slideshows with over 150 effects.

    131 FastStone Image Viewer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. JPEGView icon
     145 likes

    Lightweight Simple Image Viewer with Slide show feature, Resize and Lossless-cut, Color correction, Rename, Multi-language and more...

    138 JPEGView alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
  3. qimgv icon
     41 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.

    113 qimgv alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. Preview icon
     123 likes

    Native macOS app for viewing, annotating, and editing images and PDFs, featuring tools for cropping, rotating, resizing images, rearranging pages, full-screen viewing, markup, document merging, batch conversion, and export in multiple formats.

    169 Preview alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  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.

    121 gThumb alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
     
  6. Zoner Studio icon
     60 likes

    Advanced photo software offering RAW processing, layer support, retouching, and video editing. Includes cataloging, presets, automatic import, and robust sharing. Supports RAW and JPG editing with post-trial photo products creation while maintaining non-subscription features.

    93 Zoner Studio alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. Excire Foto icon
     2 likes

    Excire provides fast, AI-powered photo and video organization to help photographers and teams instantly find, manage, organize, and cull media files.

    81 Excire Foto alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  8. Picturama icon
     4 likes

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

    101 Picturama alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Electron / Atom Shell
     
  9. CodedColor PhotoStudio by 1STEIN is a Windows photo viewer and editor to organize, edit, resize, reformat, correct, compare, sort, watermark, annotate and print digital images, and to edit EXIF and IPTC data in digital photos.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. Veneta Viewer icon
     5 likes

    Hardware accelerated image viewer and image sequence player. It supports a large variety of formats, including many camera RAW images.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. Cornice icon
     4 likes

    Cornice is a cross-platform image viewer written in Python + wxPython + PIL. It has been inspired by the famous Windows-only ACDSee Photo Studio .

    Features

    Fully cross-platform: it should run wherever wxPython does; Detail and thumbnail view for.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
    • PortableApps.com
    • wxPython
     
  12. Phiewer icon
     2 likes

    Phiewer is the easiest and fastest way to view your images, videos and even audio files. It's folder based so you can just browse your media in one window without any extra clicking and selecting.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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