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. Lightweight and fast free image viewer, ' FocusOn Image Viewer '. It is free for everyone - individuals, companies, organizations. It can also automatically organize photos by date and edit the photos without damaging the original.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. Extension module for Windows Explorer to render SVG thumbnails, so that you can have an overview of your SVG files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. µPhotos icon
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    µPhotos is a fast OpenGL-based cross platform immersive photo viewer and organizer. Here is a list of features, that make µPhotos special:

    14 µPhotos alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Linux Mobile
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
     
  5. ViewPic icon
     Like

    ViewPic is a lightning fast and image viewer for Mac OS X, you can quickly browse through all images in a folder.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  6. AYVY icon
     Like

    JPEG/PNG/RAW Images viewer.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  7. 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
     
  8. Handy Viewer icon
     3 likes

    Handy Viewer provides an all-in-one solution for photo viewing and editing.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. PhotoBatcher icon
     1 like

    PhotoBatcher is a photo batch application that makes it easy to convert, resize, rotate, color control, apply effects, add watermark and rename photos in a single operation. It supports all popular formats.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  10. 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 types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
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    Guest
    9

    Image navigation is extremely poor and essentially all other functionality is missing.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    4

    osc preview is not even close to irfanview. It can preview images and that's about it.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
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    0

    Preview is completely useless.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Preview is Free and ProprietaryIrfanView is Free Personal and Proprietary
  11. Image Detail icon
     1 like

    A new image viewer that has nice features like identifying and generating colors from image, changing colors of image with color adjustment and color matrix tools, crop & split image for Instagram, TIF/GIF Animated extractor, batch functions.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. Texeled icon
     1 like

    Simple texture viewer and editor for Windows.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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