Microsoft Photos Alternatives

Microsoft Photos is described as 'You can use the Photos app to view or edit photos and videos in your Pictures library and on OneDrive, and to import photos and videos. The Photos app includes a wide range of editing options to enhance your photos, from automatic fixes to advanced adjustments' and is a Image Viewer in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Microsoft Photos for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and Flathub apps. The best Microsoft Photos alternative is IrfanView. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try IrfanView or ImageGlass. Other great apps like Microsoft Photos are nomacs, Fossify Gallery, FastStone Image Viewer and qView.

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    MA Photos

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    A basic photos app built with Material You.

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    Electro

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    Electro is a blazingly fast image viewer built with Rust, featuring an integrated terminal for enhanced productivity.

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    • Windows
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  4. File Viewer for macOS icon

    File Viewer for macOS

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    File Viewer allows you to view any file on your Mac. Simply drag and drop any file or folder onto the program window. File Viewer supports playback of many common audio and video formats, and can display many image, Web, and page layout file types.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    MiniTool MovieMaker

    Accessible video editing software with a simple interface and free version. It offers intuitive timelines, trimming, animated titles, filters, transitions, multiple formats, customizable features, 3D LUTs, modern techniques, and ...

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    MetaScope - Metadata Studio

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    A native macOS app for viewing, editing, searching, and exporting EXIF, IPTC, and XMP metadata across 50+ image and video formats.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    • European Union flagEU
    MetaScope file browser with image preview, metadata inspector, and professional EXIF, IPTC, and XMP tools.
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  9. Pix42 icon

    Pix42

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    Fast image and media viewer for Windows and macOS. Opens RAW, FITS, PSD, HEIC, AVIF, JPEG XL, OpenEXR, video, audio and 50+ formats in one window — no codec packs needed.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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    • European Union flagEU
    Main UI in light theme
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  10. PixFinder icon

    PixFinder

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    PixFinder is photo search and viewer tool for your image collection. With OCR text recognition and AI-powered visual and similar picture search you can find meme, screenshot, family photo, receipt or that from three years ago without remembering the filename.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    AI Semantic search by photo content
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    HawkView

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    Fast, GPU-accelerated image viewer for Windows. Opens RAW, HEIC, AVIF, JPEG XL, WebP and 40+ formats instantly, with editing, conversion and slideshows.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  12. Imagin Raw icon

    Imagin Raw

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    A lightweight, native macOS application for browsing, culling, and organizing RAW photos - built as a more efficient alternative to Adobe Bridge.

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • RO flagRomania
    • European Union flagEU
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  13. MediaExplorer icon

    MediaExplorer

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    MediaExplorer is a Windows app for visually browsing local media files and folders without importing files into a library.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • CA flagCanada
    Lighting Fast, No Importing, and Built for Large Collections
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    Imava

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    A fast, 100% offline, privacy-first Android photo and video gallery with hardware-backed AES-256 vault encryption and throwback stories.

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    • Android
    • IN flagIndia
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    pictkura

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    pictkura does two things and stops: it imports from a USB drive or SD card into folders sorted by capture date, and it lays out a large library so you can find and look at what you already have.

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    The library, laid out by capture date, with a year scrubber down the right edge.
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