nomacs Alternatives

nomacs is described as 'Free, open source image viewer, which supports multiple platforms. You can use it for viewing all common image formats including RAW and psd images' and is a very popular Image Viewer in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 100 alternatives to nomacs for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Flathub and Xfce apps. The best nomacs 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 nomacs are FastStone Image Viewer, qView, XnView Classic and Gwenview.

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nomacs alternatives are mainly Image Viewers, but if you're looking for Image Editors or Photo Managers you can filter on that. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to nomacs.
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  1. A native macOS app for viewing, editing, searching, and exporting EXIF, IPTC, and XMP metadata across 50+ image and video formats.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  2. Qiv icon
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    QIV is a very small and pretty fast gdk/Imlib image viewer. Runs on Linux, Solaris(SunOS), FreeBSD and HP-UX.

    Features:

    moving & zooming image in fullscreen mode. setting image as x11 background (centered,tiled,stretched..) with user settable background col.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
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  3. GImageView is a yet another image viewer which solves hopless situation under displaying a lot of images. It provides not only viewing image function but also managing image files function which looks like expolore of MS-Windows or tabbed web browser.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
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    Gimmage is a small gtk image viewer, perfect for command line usage as it accepts directories and image filenames as arguments. It also has a filechooser integrated into the main UI, making accessing images and directories a snap.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
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  5. kaida icon
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    Effortlessly geotag your photos with kaida ("where" in Tatar). This universal app uses GPX track data to automatically add GPS coordinates to your images.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  6. Macview icon
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    Macview opens a picture in a window the size of the picture, on a plain dark ground, and then gets out of the way. There is no toolbar, no sidebar and no title bar, and the image runs to the edges of the window.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  7. GuoheView icon
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    Possibly the world’s smallest all-format image viewer. The portable archive is around 4M, yet it delivers complete image decoding for HEIC, AVIF, WebP, RAW, PSD and many more formats, with accurate color, fast response and a stable modern UI.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  8. A lightweight, open-source image and video viewer for macOS with native HEIC and RAW support, light editing and video playback.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  11. HawkView icon
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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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