Preview Alternatives
Preview is described as 'Native macOS tool for viewing, annotating, and editing images and PDFs, offers cropping, resizing, markup tools, page rearrangement, and export to multiple formats' and is a very popular Image Editor in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Preview for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and Flathub apps. The best Preview alternative is SumatraPDF, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Preview are Okular, IrfanView, XnView MP and ImageGlass.
Alternatives list
Main point of this app is to scan or select existing PDF documents simply using intent or chooser. Other apps require payment to access their api/sdk or simply don't have a possible way to do it. So they rely on switching between an app ,file chooser and a scanner.

- 82 Kami alternatives
Cloud-based PDF viewer and annotation tool for your browser. Perfect for Chromebook 1:1 schools. View, export, print and share your PDF files straight from your browser. Kami works on all browsers and works best with Google Chrome.
Cost / License
- Freemium (Subscription)
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Online
- Google Chrome
Kami is the most popular Web-based alternative to Preview.
- Kami is Freemium and Proprietary
- 55 Scanner Pro alternatives
Scanner Pro turns your iPhone into portable scanner in your pocket. It lets you scan multipage documents, email them and even upload to Dropbox, MobileMe iDisk or any other WebDAV enabled server.



- 88 Xviewer alternatives
Xviewer is a simple image viewer which uses the gdk-pixbuf library. It can deal with large images, and zoom and scroll with constant memory usage. Its goals are simplicity and standards compliance. Xviewer is installed by default in Linux Mint.



- 76 PDF Reader Pro alternatives
Read, edit, annotate, and sign PDF documents with built-in AI features like summarize and translate, OCR in 50+ languages, fill forms, export to major formats offline, apply watermarks, compress files, secure with passwords, and use text-to-speech on all major platforms.
Cost / License
- Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad


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- 107 Geeqie Image Viewer alternatives
Geeqie is a free open software image viewer and organiser program for Linux, FreeBSD and other Unix-like operating systems.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
- BSD
- Xfce
- Flathub
- Homebrew
- Windows
- NetBSD
- FreeBSD



Ashampoo Photo Commander provides robust photo management, editing, and sharing, along with audio and video features. It includes automatic image optimization, batch processing, and tools for red-eye correction, noise reduction, and slideshow creation with transitions and music.
Cost / License
- Freemium (Pay once)
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Windows


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Besides exceptionally fast launching and displaying speed, Gaaiho Reader is reliable in printing, filling forms annotating documents and adding bookmarks.
Cost / License
- Pay once or Subscription
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Windows
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Mac


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Fly Photos is a blazing-fast, ultra-lightweight photo viewer for Windows that revives the beloved user experience of the discontinued Google Picasa Photo Viewer . Designed as an ideal replacement, it offers immediate loading of large images — including raw files over 100?



Get rid of paper clutter with Stack. Stack is a PDF scanner, document organizer, and detail finder. All in one.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Android



A fast, secure, and minimalist C++ image viewer for Windows. It's a single ~82 KB executable with zero telemetry and broad image support.































