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 PDF Reader in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Preview for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iPhone 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.

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  1. FuturixImager icon
     3 likes

    FuturixImager is a compact and customizable image viewer. It is capable of opening more then 50 file types, including all most popular ones (GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, JPEG2000, raw, DNG).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. Xee icon
     55 likes

    Xee is an streamlined and convenient image viewer and browser. It is similar to macOS's Preview.app, but lets you easily browse the entire contents of folders and archives, move and copy image files quickly, and supports many more image formats.

    84 Xee alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  3. Phatch icon
     28 likes

    Phatch is an user friendly, cross-platform Photo Batch Processor and Exif Renamer with a nice graphical user interface. Phatch handles all popular image formats and can duplicate (sub)folder hierarchies.

    91 Phatch alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  4. WinQuickLook icon
     1 like

    WinQuickLook allows you to select a file in Windows Explorer or on your desktop and then simply press the spacebar to see the contents of the file without having to open it with a special application.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. qAllInOne icon
     12 likes

    qAllInOne (aka qAIO) is a free open-source software built using Qt to provide users an All-In-One media player, so it can view images, play videos and audio.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  6. SimplePDF icon
     1 like

    Simple macOS PDF reader with ChatGPT integrated. You can chat with your local PDF. The returned response can cite the page number to ensure correctness.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  7. An attorney who deals with a lot of PDFs set himself with the task of finding a way to preview the PDFs in Windows Explorer (much like Cover Flow view already does in Mac OS X) without actually opening them.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
     
  8. WildBit Viewer is popular, extensive & fast image viewer which includes viewer, slide show, editor, search, profile switcher and multi screen viewer.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. SourcePDF icon
     Like

    SourcePDF is a completely free to use PDF editor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. LeafView icon
     2 likes

    LeafView is a lightweight, cross-platform image viewer with smooth zoom, folder browsing, and grid view, built with Electron and Leaflet.js.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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