IrfanView Alternatives

IrfanView is described as 'Fast and powerful image viewer, editor, and converter for beginners and pros. Supports various formats, batch processing, and many extensions' and is a leading Image Viewer in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 100 alternatives to IrfanView for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Flathub and Web-based apps. The best IrfanView alternative is XnView MP. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try XnView MP or nomacs. Other great apps like IrfanView are ImageGlass, XnView Classic, qView and JPEGView.

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  1. Tacent View icon
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    Designed to be a comprehensive image viewer, Tacent View supports TGA, PNG, APNG, EXR, DDS, GIF, HDR, JPG, TIFF, ICO, WebP, and BMP files. Uses Dear ImGui, OpenGL, and Tacent. Useful for game devs as it displays information like the presence of an alpha channel and querying...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. 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
     
  3. nsxiv icon
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    Neo Simple X Image Viewer (nsxiv) is a fork of the now-unmaintained sxiv with the purpose of being a (mostly) drop-in replacement for sxiv.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  4. “Smart SVG Viewer” is a free, fast and convenient SVG image viewer with Thumbnail Gallery and Transparency Grid. It is a must-have tool for UI/UX design, Web design, and Graphic design.

    33 Smart SVG Viewer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Mirage icon
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    Mirage is a fast and simple GTK+ image viewer. Because it depends only on PyGTK, Mirage is ideal for users who wish to keep their computers lean while still having a clean image viewer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
     
  6. Pixeluvo icon
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    Pixeluvo is a beautifully designed photo and image editor for PC. It supports everything from simple color and contrast tweaks, cropping and resizing, to complex photo montage with multiple layers, masks and effects.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. PhotoInsight icon
     1 like

    Image viewer and organizer. Detects your images on your disk automatically. Help you find them through a powerful search engine.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Viso icon
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    Viso is a beautiful minimal image viewer for MacOS. Features a non intrusive UI that allows you to get the most viewing experience out of your images.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  9. ToolThump icon
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    ToolThump is a collection of practical, no-nonsense utilities built on a simple principle: your data should stay in your hands.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  10. Enhanced Android Gallery App to manage local photos: geotagging with map, tags (keywords), find, sort, view, copy, delete, set gps exif data, send, ... .

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • F-Droid
     
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