Comparison of image viewers

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This article presents a comparison of image viewers and image organizers which can be used for image viewing.

## Contents

* 1 Functionality overview and licensing
* 2 Supported file formats
* 2.1 Commonly used vendor-independent formats
* 2.2 Camera raw formats
* 3 Supported operating systems
* 4 Basic features
* 5 Additional features
* 6 See also
* 7 Notes
* 8 References

## Functionality overview and licensing

Name  | View functions  | Other functions  | License

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ACDSee | Thumbnails (user-defined sizes), fullscreen, slideshow, zoom, fit, view Exif info, view inside ZIP archives, ...  | Resize, crop, rotate, flip, JPEG lossless rotate/mirror, face recognition, adjust exposure and colors etc., filters (sharpen, blur, average, emboss), red eye removal, batch rename, edit Exif info  | Proprietary
Adobe Bridge | Thumbnails, slideshow, filmstrip, preview, versions with alternates  | Stand Alone: rotate, rename, delete, move, copy, batch rename, add/Edit metadata, camera raw image adjustments: crop, resize, exposure, contrast, white balance, curves

Via Photoshop: contact sheet, merge to HDR, PDF presentation, photomerge, Web picture gallery

| Proprietary
Adobe Lightroom | Library organization, RAW and JPEG editing, slideshow tools, print layout and preferences, web gallery creation and uploading  |  | Proprietary
Aperture |  |  | Proprietary
CDisplay | Fit to window, zoom, print, full-screen, slideshow, image collection, image information...  | Rotate, flip, save as, used for reading comics and manga.  | Proprietary
Darktable | Lighttable (contact sheet), darkroom (image editing), map, tethering  | Non-destructive RAW photo editing (like Adobe Lightroom) as well as common image formats  | GPL-3.0-or-later
digiKam | Fit to window, zoom, pan, light table, slideshow with effects, OpenGL viewer  | Rotate, crop, vertical/horizontal flip, lossless JPEG operations (90° steps), color management, 16bit color depth, Light Table, Exif, IPTC, XMP, GPS metadata, adjust colors/brightness/levels, elaborate Black and White conversion, automatic lens correction, anti-vignetting, sharpening tools, vibrance, many filters, face recognition, Batch operations, export to archive, HTML, flickr, gallery2, picasaweb, smugmug, iPod, Facebook, 23hq, flash.  | GPL-2.0-or-later
Eye of GNOME | Fit to window, zoom, flip, rotate, full-screen, slideshow, image collection, image information  | Delete, print, save, rename, set wallpaper  | GPL-2.0-or-later
F-Spot | Full-screen, slideshow, zoom, multiple sizes of thumbnails. Export: HTML, Flickr, Gallery Project, Picasa, Facebook (via extension) and O.r.i.g.i.n.a.l  | Tags, rotate in single degree increments, hue, contrast, white balance, colour, sharpen, soft focus, crop, auto red-eye reduction. Files stored at /user/Pictures/Photos/[year]/[month]/[day] | MIT
FastPictureViewer | Borderless full-screen kiosk mode, Fit-to-window, 1:1, 50% to 6400% magnifier, multicore-enabled, GPU-based panning/zooming, black & white preview and lost shadows/highlights view.  | File renaming, single-click background copy/move to preset location, single-click rating/labeling (writes Adobe XMP sidecar files and/or embeds XMP metadata within JPEG/TIFF/HD Photo/JPEG XR), Windows rating, color management including custom target profile selection, Unicode support, Exif shooting data (shutter speed, f-stop, ISO speed, exposure compensation) and real-time, seamless R,G,B histogram in translucent floating window. IPTC metadata editor in the registered version.  | Proprietary
FastStone Image Viewer | All major formats, thumbnail view (6 predefined sizes), full screen, magnifier, slideshow. Uses second monitor for fullscreen preview. Popups image gallery, detailed image informations, editing options at the image border in fullscreen modus.  | Many editing features: rotate, move, rename, 150+ transitional effects, crop, resize, clone, heal, convert format, color adjust, sharpen, drop shadow effects, scanner support, histogram. JPEG lossless rotate/flip/crop.  | Proprietary
Geeqie | Full-screen, slideshow, zoom, color spectrum, 14 sizes of thumbnails  | Rotate, move, rename, hue, contrast, find/remove duplicates  | GPL-2.0-or-later
Gonvisor | Fit to window, zoom, print, full-screen, slideshow, image collection, image information, view images in compressed ZIP, RAR, or 7z files.  | Rotate, flip, save as, used for reading comics and manga  | Proprietary
GraphicConverter | Full-screen, slideshow  | Rotate, move, rename  | Proprietary
gThumb | Full-screen, slideshow, zoom, color spectrum, three sizes of thumbnails  | Rotate, move, rename, hue, contrast  | GPL-2.0-or-later
Gwenview | Fullscreen, slideshow, zoom, rotate, adjust gamma/contrast/brightness, disk navigator, file tree, thumbnails, extended thumbnails, bookmarks...  | Add border, filter, effects, resize, rename, raw image converter, recompress, edit color. Share using 23, Dropbox, Facebook, Flickr, Google drive, Google photos/Picasaweb, Imageshack, Imgur, Piwigo, Rajce.net, remote storage, SmugMug, Yandex.Fotki, Zooomr  | GPL-2.0-only or GPL-3.0-only
ImageGlass  |  |  | GPL-3.0-or-later
iPhoto | Thumbnails, fullscreen, slideshow, camera information, search, tags, organize by event or album, auto organize by date during first import  | Lossless JPEG rotate, cropping (custom and template), brightness/contrast adjustment, red-eye reduction, retouch, color enhancement, B&W and sepia conversion, export to multiple formats & sizes  | Proprietary
IrfanView | Thumbnails (18 pre-defined sizes from 50×50–800×800 pixels), fullscreen, slideshow, zoom, fit (several options), view IPTC and Exif info, hex view, histogram (also RGB); Format detection with offer to rename, set wallpaper, EXE/SCR creation, Burn slideshow to CD; directory tree

32 languages (version 4.28/4.30)

| Add Text, crop, cut/copy selected area, paste-Into selected area, paste from print screen, resize/resample, rotate, flip vertically/horizontally, JPEG lossless transformations, color adjustments, change color depth, greyscale, red-eye reduction, sharpen, effects/filters, own and 8bf (Photoshop) plugins compatibility, edit IPTC info, move, copy, delete, rename, convert, batch conversion, batch renaming/resizing/cropping, panorama creation, send email, also via IrfanView Thumbnails/Plugins: contact sheet creation, thumbnail creation, web gallery creation, face detection  | Free for non-commercial use
KPhotoAlbum | Zoom, rotate, metadata, Exif, thumbnails (customize size), slideshow, categories  | As Available per KIPI plugins  | GPL-2.0-or-later
Loupe | Fullscreen, zoom, rotate, metadata  | Print, delete, sandboxed decoding, support for touchpad and touchscreen gestures  | GPL-3.0-or-later
Phase One Media Pro | Thumbnails, slideshow, zoom, print, light table, library organization, best practice DAM  | Rotate, rename, delete, batch rename, add/edit metadata (IPTC, EXIF, Custom), free reader app to distribute catalogs  | Proprietary
Photos (Apple) |  |  | Proprietary
Photos (Windows) | fullscreen, slideshow, fit, zoom, print  |  | Proprietary
Picasa | Zoom, lossless rotate, histogram, camera information, Thumbnails (fully adjustable), Slide Show (Full Screen w/zoom), Magnifier, Search, Search for faces  | Crop, straighten, redeye, color tweaking, retouch, tuning, add text, numerous effects, batch edit, batch rename, video rendering, HTML gallery creation, photo browser application creator, screensaver, face recognition, keyword tagging, geo-tagging, photo collage, original file preservation, reorganize storage  | Proprietary
Preview | Zoom, rotate, metadata  | Crop, straighten, color tweaking, profile assignment  | Proprietary
Shotwell | Thumbnails, fullscreen, slideshow, zoom, print, camera information, events  | Auto enhance, rotate, mirror, flip, red eye reduction, crop, exposure, saturation, tint, temperature, shadows, revert to original, rename, straighten, change time/date, publish to Facebook, Picasa Web Albums, Flickr | LGPL-2.1-or-later
STDU Viewer | Fullscreen, fit to window, zoom, print  | rotate, brightness, contrast, gamma setting  | Proprietary
Windows Photo Gallery | Fullscreen, slideshow, fit, zoom, print  | Panorama stitching, adjust brightness, contrast, color saturation/hue, filters, stitching, rotate, straightening and skew, face recognition  | Proprietary
Windows Photo Viewer | Fullscreen, slideshow, fit, zoom, print  | Rotate, lossy JPEG rotate, annotate TIFF images  | Proprietary
XnView and XnViewMP  | Thumbnails (user-defined sizes), fullscreen, slideshow, zoom, fit, view IPTC and Exif info  | Resize, crop, rotate, flip, JPEG lossless rotate/flip/crop, adjust exposure and colors etc., filters (sharpen, blur, average, emboss), batch convert, batch rename, edit IPTC info  | Free for non-commercial use
Xv | View as ASCII or hex, magnify, determine pixel values  | Crop, pad, resize, rotate, flip, brightness, contrast, gamma, saturation, hue, colormap, reduce colors, dither, convert, and more  | Proprietary
Zoner Photo Studio | Thumbnails (user-defined sizes), fullscreen, histogram, slideshow with transition effects, auto rotation, JPEG lossless rotate, pan, zoom, fit, IPTC and Exif info, GPS support, full Unicode support, free version does not support color profiles  | Resize, crop, rotate, flip, JPEG lossless rotate/mirror, adjust exposure, colors, contrast, saturation, hue, white balance, levels, curves, gamma correction, filters (sharpen, blur, soften, edge, emboss, average, grayscale, ...), .8bf (Photoshop) plugins compatibility, color management, batch operations, image conversions with reduced/dithered colors, batch rename, red eye removal, edit ITPC, XMP and Exif info, time creation offset, merge to HDR, PDF presentation, panorama creation, lens correction, anti-vignetting, web picture gallery, DNG/RAW image converter, TWAIN scanners support, send pictures via e-mail, 3D pictures, dynamic calendar generation, support for WIC codecs (RAW processing)  | Proprietary
Name  | View functions  | Other functions  | License

## Supported file formats

### Commonly used vendor-independent formats

Program  | Comic book | PDF | BMP | JPEG | PNG | TIFF | GIF | PSD | Other graphics file formats

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ACDSee | CBR, CBZ |  | BMP | JPEG | PNG | TIFF | GIF | PSD | ACDSee reads 9 compression formats and writes to 2, reads 33 video formats, and supports 61 image formats and writes to 16, including EMF, PCX, PIC, PICT, PSD, PSP, SGI, TGA, WMF, XBM, various camera formats among others
Adobe Bridge |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Displays all file types supported by Adobe Creative Suite
Aperture |  | PDF |  | JPEG | PNG | TIFF | GIF | PSD | PSD, OLY, Various video formats including: AVI, MOV, MPEG
CDisplay | CBZ, CBR, CBT, CBA |  | BMP | JPEG | PNG |  | GIF |  |
digiKam |  |  | BMP | JPEG | PNG | TIFF | GIF |  | JPEG 2000, PCX, WMF, PNM, PPM, XCF, XPM, PGX, MPEG, MPO, MPE, AVI, MOV, ASF, PGF, MP4
Eye of GNOME |  |  | BMP | JPEG | PNG | TIFF | GIF |  | PNM, RAS, ICO, XPM, SVG
F-Spot |  |  |  | JPEG | PNG | TIFF | GIF |  | PPM, SVG
FastPictureViewer |  |  | BMP | JPEG | PNG | TIFF |  | PSD | HD Photo, HDP, WDP, JPEG XR
(+ RLE, DIB, ICO, MTIFF in the registered edition, as well as DjVu, TGA, PSD, HDR, DDS, EXR, J2K, PNM, PBM, PGM, PBM, LRPREV, JPS through additional WIC codecs from the optional FastPictureViewer Codec Pack or from 3rd parties)
FastStone Image Viewer |  |  | BMP | JPEG | PNG | TIFF | GIF | PSD | loading of:  JPEG 2000, PCX, WMF, ICO, CUR, TGA, CRW, FAX, JFIF, HEIC, WEBP saving to:  BMP, GIF, JPEG, JPEG 2000, PCX, PNG, PPM, TGA, TIFF, PDF
Geeqie |  | PDF | BMP | JPEG | PNG | TIFF | GIF | PSD | ANI, APM, CUR, ICNS, ICO, JP2/JPC/JPX/J2K/JPF, JPS, MPO, PCX, PBM/PGM/PNM/PPM, QIF/QTIF (QuickTime Image Format), RAS (Sun Raster), SVG/SVGZ, TGA/TARGA, WBMP, WMF, XBM, XPM
Gonvisor | CBZ, CBR, CBA, CB7 | PDF | BMP | JPEG | PNG |  | GIF |  | Opens images contained in rar, zip, ace and 7zip files.
GraphicConverter |  | PDF | BMP | JPEG | PNG | TIFF | GIF | PSD | 190 types read, 79 types saved
gThumb |  |  | BMP | JPEG | PNG | TIFF | GIF |  |
Gwenview |  |  | BMP | JPEG | PNG | TIFF | GIF | PSD | MNG, SVG, XCF, RAW (NEF), etc.
ImageGlass |  |  | BMP | JPEG | PNG | TIFF | GIF | PSD | Supports many different formats including AVIF, HEIF, HEIC, JPEG XL, WebP
iPhoto |  |  |  | JPEG | PNG |  | GIF | PSD | RAW (All QuickTime supported images), PSD (Leopard), AVI (Leopard), MOV (Leopard)
IrfanView |  | PDF | BMP | JPEG | PNG | TIFF | GIF | PSD | ~70 types including : AIF, ANI/CUR, ASF, AU/SND, AVI, B3D, DIB, CAM (Casio JPG), CLP, DDS, Dicom/ACR, DJVU, ECW, EMF/WMF, EPS/PS, FITS, FlashPix (FPX), FSH, G3, HDR, ICO/ICL/EXE/DLL, IFF/LBM, IMG (GEM), JPEG 2000, JPM, KDC, LDF, LWF, MED, MID/RMI, MNG/JNG, MOV, MP3, MPG, MrSID, NLM/NOL/NGG, OGG, PBM/PGM/PPM, PCX/DCX, PhotoCD, PIC, PSD, PSP, RAS/SUN, RAW, Real Audio (RA), RLE, SFF, SFW, SGI/RGB, SWF (Flash/Shockwave), TGA, TTF, TXT, WAD, WAL, WAV, WBMP, WBZ/WBC, XBM, XPM, CAD formats. Partial support: MOV, QTIF, Mac PICT, FLI/FLC, SVG. Note that some modes don't display large animated GIF files entirely (for example the Slideshow mode).
KPhotoAlbum |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Photo formats supported by KDE; AVI, MPEG, RAW
Loupe |  | PDF | BMP | JPEG | PNG | TIFF | GIF | PSD | AVIF, DDS, farbfeld, QOI, HEIC, ICO, JPEG XL, OpenEXR, PNM, SVG, TGA, WEBP
Phase One Media Pro |  | PDF |  | JPEG | PNG | TIFF | GIF | PSD | Supports over 100 file formats for images, videos and documents, including: PSD, IIQ, CR, EIP, DOC
Photos (Windows) |  | PDF | BMP | JPEG | PNG | TIFF | GIF | PSD | AVIF, GIF, HEIC (with extension), ICO, JXR, RAW, THUMB, WEBP
Picasa |  |  | BMP | JPEG | PNG | TIFF | GIF |  | 8 types including TGA, RAW, and some movie formats
Preview |  | PDF | BMP | JPEG | PNG | TIFF | GIF |  | All QuickTime images:
Shotwell |  |  |  | JPEG | PNG | TIFF | GIF |  | RAW and some video formats
STDU Viewer |  | PDF | BMP | JPEG | PNG | TIFF (multipage) | GIF | PSD | TXT, EMF, WMF, DjVu, XPS
Windows Photo Viewer |  |  | BMP | JPEG | PNG | TIFF (multipage) | GIF |  | WMF, EMF, ICO
XnView and XnViewMP  |  | PDF | BMP | JPEG (IPTC&Exif) | PNG | TIFF (multipage) | GIF | PSD | reads over 500 formats,[1] including: FAX, EPS, WMF, DICOM, DPX; writes about 75 formats [2]
Xv |  |  | BMP | JPEG | PNG (with patch) | TIFF | GIF |  | PBM, PGM, PPM, XPM, Sun Rasterfile, Targa, RGB, PCX, FITS, PM, PostScript
Zoner Photo Studio |  |  | BMP | JPEG | PNG | TIFF | GIF/aGIF | PSD | HDP/WDP, PSB, PSP/PSPIMAGE, DIB/RLE, J2K/JPC/JP2, PAM, PBM, PGM, PNM, PCD, PCX, WBMP/WBM, TGA, ICO, MAC, WPG, BMI, MDM, THN, DCM, stereo pictures: JPS, PNS, BMS.
Program  | Comic book | PDF | BMP | JPEG | PNG | TIFF | GIF | PSD | Other graphics file formats

### Camera raw formats

Program  | ARW
Sony | CR2
Canon | DNG
Adobe | NEF
Nikon | ORF
Olympus | PEF
Pentax | RAF
Fujifilm | SRW
Samsung | X3F
Sigma | Others  | Notes

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ACDSee | ARW | CR2 | DNG | NEF | ORF | PEF | RAF | SRW | X3F | cRAW, CRW, DCR, ERF, HDR, MRW, RAW, RWL, sRAW | [1]
Aperture | ARW | CR2 | DNG | NEF | ORF | PEF | RAF | SRW | X3F | CRW, MOS, RAW, FFF, 3FR | [2]
digiKam | ARW | CR2 | DNG | NEF | ORF | PEF | RAF | SRW | X3F | Several | [3][4]
F-Spot | ARW? | CR2 | DNG | NEF | ORF | PEF | RAF | SRW? | X3F? |

CRW, MRW, RAW, SRF

FastPictureViewer
(registered edition)  | ARW | CR2 | DNG | NEF | ORF | PEF | RAF | SRW | X3F | NRW, RW2, SR2, SRF, RWZ etc. | [5]
FastStone Image Viewer | ARW | CR2 | DNG | NEF | ORF | PEF | RAF | SRW | X3F | CR3, CRW, NRW, RWL, MRW, SR2, SRF, RW2 | [6]
Geeqie | ARW | CR2 | DNG | NEF | ORF | PEF | RAF | SRW | X3F |

3FR, CRW, DCR, ERF, K25, KDC, MEF, MOS, MRW, PTX, R3D, RAW, SR2, SRF

ImageGlass  | ARW | CR2 | DNG | NEF | ORF | PEF | RAF | SRW | X3F | CRW and more | [7]
IrfanView | ARW | CR2 | DNG | NEF | ORF | PEF | RAF | SRW | X3F | CRW, EEF, DCR, MRW, NRW, RW2, SRF | [8]
Phase One Media Pro | ARW? | CR2? | DNG | NEF | ORF? | PEF? | RAF | SRW | X3F? |

CRW, MOS, RAW

Photos (Windows) | ARW | CR2 | DNG | NEF | ORF | PEF | RAF | SRW | X3F |

CRW, MOS, RAW

Picasa | ARW | CR2 | DNG | NEF | ORF | PEF | RAF | SRW | X3F | 3FR, CRW, DCR, KDC, MRW, NRW, RAW, RW2, SRF, SR2 | [9]
Shotwell | ARW? | CR2? | DNG? | NEF? | ORF? | PEF? | RAF? | SRW? | X3F? |  | Support "limited", export 8-bit only [10]
XnView and XnViewMP  | ARW | CR2 | DNG | NEF | ORF | PEF | RAF | SRW | X3F  | CRW, RWZ and more | [11]
Zoner Photo Studio | ARW | CR2 | DNG | NEF | ORF | PEF | RAF | SRW | X3F | 3FR, CRW, ERF, KDC, MEF, MRW, RAW, RW2, RWZ, SR2, SRF | [12]

## Supported operating systems

Name  | Windows | macOS | Linux | BSD

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ACDSee | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No
Adobe Bridge | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No
Adobe Lightroom | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No
Aperture | No  | Yes  | No  | No
CDisplay | Yes  | No  | No  | No
digiKam | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Eye of GNOME (aka Image Viewer)  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes
F-Spot | No  | No  | Yes  | No
FastPictureViewer | Yes  | No  | No  | No
FastStone Image Viewer | Yes  | No  | No  | No
Geeqie | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Gonvisor | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No
GraphicConverter | No  | Yes  | No  | No
gThumb | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes
Gwenview | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes
ImageGlass  | Yes  | No  | No  | No
iPhoto | No  | Yes  | No  | No
IrfanView | Yes  | No  | No  | No
KPhotoAlbum | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes
Loupe (aka Image Viewer)  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes
Phase One Media Pro | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No
Photos (Apple) | No  | Yes  | No  | No
Photos (Windows) | Yes  | No  | No  | No
Picasa | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No
Preview | No  | Yes  | No  | No
Shotwell | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes
STDU Viewer | Yes  | No  | No  | No
Windows Photo Gallery | Yes  | No  | No  | No
Windows Photo Viewer | Yes  | No  | No  | No
XnView | Yes  | No  | No  | No
XnViewMP | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No
Xv | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes
Zoner Photo Studio | Yes  | No  | No  | No

## Basic features

Program  | Fullscreen  | slideshow  | zoom
(styles)  | cache decoded images  | thumbnails (sizes)  | thumbnail caching  | navigation views  | print  | sort
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ACDSee | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
1:1, fit width and/or height, lock  | Yes
previous, next  | Yes
user-defined  | Yes
database  | directory-tree, albums, calendar, favourites, search results  | Yes  | Yes
user-defined, name, date, size, type, ...
CDisplay | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
1:1, fit over/under width/height, fullscreen, doublepage  |  | Yes
Fixed, with scroll  |  | Thumbnails(of current folder images or archive)  | No  | No
digiKam | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
fit, in/out  | Yes
previous, next  | Yes
adjustable size  | Yes  | Yes album-tree, tags, calendar, searches, map (geolocation)  | Yes  | Partial
tags, date, keywords, metadata; no user-defined order
Eye of GNOME | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
+/-, 1:1, best fit  |  | image collection pane, only one row  |  | Thumbnails(of current folder images)  | Yes  | No
F-Spot | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |  | Yes  |  | list, file-tree  |  | Yes
keywords
FastPictureViewer | Yes  | Yes
Auto-advance mode  | Yes
1:1, fit, 50%-6400% magnifier, click-and-hold zooming  | Yes
dynamic, adaptive  | Yes
96x96px, shown on navigation slider (Vista or later)  | Yes
(uses OS-managed cache on Windows Vista or later)  | Yes
Windowed or full-screen, back and forth navigation, bookmarks, navigation slider  | No  | Yes Filenames, file creation/modification date, Exif date taken, GPS timestamp
FastStone Image Viewer | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
1:1, 2%-5000% magnifier, click-and-hold zooming, fit width and/or height, lock  | No  | Yes
6 predefined sizes  | Yes
database  | dir-tree, back and forth navigation, bookmarks  | Yes  | Yes
user-defined, name, date, file size, image size, type
Geeqie | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
fit, 1:1, in/out  | Yes
previous, next  | Yes
24x24 - 256x256  | Yes
as png-files centrally or in sub-dir  | list, dir-tree, collection  | Yes  | Yes
collections, keywords, directory
gThumb | Yes  | Yes
random, forward, reverse  | Yes
fit, 1:1, remember, fit-if-larger, in/out  |  | Yes
48x48 - 256x256, 9 sizes  | Partial Newer versions cache in a central directory  | list, icon, subfolders, categories, catalog  | Yes  | Yes
catalogs, categories
Gwenview | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
fit, 1:1, fit-if-larger, zoom to 1600%  |  | Yes
adjustable size  | Yes  | Yes
fullscreen thumbnails, dir-tree  | Yes  | Yes
name, size, date
IrfanView | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
1:1, fit width and/or height, lock  | No  | Yes
18 predefined sizes: 50×50–800×800  | No  | dir-tree, search results  | Yes  | Yes
name, date, file size, image width/height, type, user-defined
KPhotoAlbum | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
fit, in/out, presets  |  | Yes  |  | views search results  |  | by date
Phase One Media Pro | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Fit to viewing area/height/width, 1:1, zoom to 1600%  | Yes  | Yes
Yes, user-defined  | Yes
Database  | Yes Catalog-sets, date, filetypes, events, author, people, by search, by keywords and all metadata  | Yes  | Yes
name, date, size, user-defined
Photos (Windows) | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Partial
Date taken, created, modified, name
Picasa | Partial
only in slideshow mode  | Yes  | Partial
no view window, fit to viewing area, 1:1, zoom to 400%  | No  | Yes
user defined  | Yes
database  | directory-tree, albums, timeline  | Yes  | Partial
name, date, size, user-defined
Shotwell | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes
fixed size  | Yes  | Thumbs, Events (dates), tags  | Yes  | Yes
Title, Exposure Date
STDU Viewer | Yes  | No
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fit to width, fit to height, fit to size  | No
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Windows Photo Viewer | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
1:1, fit, in/out  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | No
XnView and XnViewMP  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
1:1, fit width and/or height, lock  | Yes
previous, next  | Yes
user-defined  | Yes
database  | dir-tree, favourites, categories  | Yes  | Partial
name, date, size, type, etc.; no user-defined order
Xv | No  | Yes  |  | No  | Yes
fixed size  | Yes
in subdirectory (.xvpics)  |  | Yes  | Partial
name
Zoner Photo Studio | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
1:1, fit width and/or height, lock  | Yes
in Viewer, previous and next  | Yes
user-defined  | Yes
database  | dir-tree, albums, CD compilations, media archive, search results, web albums  | Yes
contact sheet, templates, calendars, paper saver  | Yes
name, date, size, type, etc.; user-defined order
Program  | Fullscreen  | slideshow  | zoom (styles)  | cache decoded images  | thumbnails (sizes)  | thumbnail caching  | navigation views  | print  | sort (schemes)

## Additional features

Program  | search (criteria)  | selection (styles)  | metadata  | adjust image (functions)  | hotkeys  | color management (ICC)  | JPEG Lossless operations  | Unicode support  | other / special

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ACDSee | Yes  | Yes
individual, linear, block  | Yes
Exif, IPTC  | Yes
many  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
rotation only  | Yes  | GPS Location, Scripts for batch/pre processing, automatic slideshow
CDisplay | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes
Rotate, Filter  | Yes
configurable  | Yes  | No  | No  | Slider, automatic slideshow, mouse control
digiKam | Yes
file name, comments, most Exif and meta data  | Yes
linear, block, complex  | Yes
Exif and IPTC  | Yes
many editing function  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
by changing EXIF orientation and not in editor  | Yes  | Geotagging, batch processing, detect duplicate/similar images, export to Internet/social media/HTML
Eye of GNOME | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes
Rotate  | Yes
unconfigurable  |  | Yes  |  |
F-Spot |  |  | Yes  |  |  |  |  |  | Export to HTML, Flickr, or O.r.i.g.i.n.a.l.
FastPictureViewer | Yes
Filter the view by rating, file name...  | Yes
Copy, move, delete, rate, label  | Yes
Write XMP Rating/Label, IPTC metadata, Windows Rating, embedded or in sidecar files, shows shooting info (Exif) and realtime RGB histogram  | No  | Yes  | Yes
(supports custom monitor profile, direct conversion from image colorspace to monitor colorspace, ICC v4)  | N/A  | Yes, native  | Native 32 and 64-bit, Tethered shooting (MTP/PTP over USB), Multicore-aware, DirectX accelerated, HD Photo / JPEG XR support.
FastStone Image Viewer |  | Yes
individual, linear  | Yes
EXIF, JPEG comment  | Yes
many  | Yes  |  | Yes
lossless transitions  | Yes  | full screen mode with all commands available via pop-up menu bars when approaching the mouse from the borders of the screen
Geeqie | Yes
collections, keywords, filename, location, size, date, dimensions, comments, previous results  | Yes
block, linear, complex  | Yes  | Yes
rotate, brightness, contrast  | Yes  | Yes  |  |  | find duplicates, sort manager, recent collections
Gonvisor | No  | Yes
Delete, rename  | No  | Yes
| Yes  | Yes  | N/A  | Yes, native  | Made to easily read comics or manga can display two pages at time and view images in compressed ZIP, RAR, 7z, cbr, cba, cbz etc.
gThumb | Yes
name, comment, date, category, folder, recursive-folder  | Yes
linear, block, complex  | Partial  | Yes
manipulate color, flip/rotate, etc.  | Yes  |  | Yes  |  | bookmarks, comments, rename series, create index image, create HTML album
Gwenview | Yes
tags  |  | Yes
Exif, IPTC, XMP  | Yes
Rotate, Red eye removal, saturation, color balance, levels and more  | Yes  |  | Yes, rotation and flipping  | Yes  | batch processing, export to Internet/social media/HTML
IrfanView
& Thumbnails  | Yes  | Yes
various options  | Yes
EIF, IPTC, Comment  | Yes
many features  | Yes
many  | Yes  | Opens and saves jpg2000 and jpgls photo files  | Yes, native  | can search for and replace pixel of a certain color (with some latitude) and replace all with a given color of pixels
KPhotoAlbum | Yes
keywords, comments, title, any field from Exif metadata  | Yes
linear, complex  | Partial  | Yes
per KIPI plugins  | Yes
configurable  |  |  |  | Quick-tagging using keyboard tokens
Phase One Media Pro | Yes
name, date, rating, file size, and many more.  | Yes
individual, linear  | Yes
EXIF, IPTC, and custom keywords  | Yes
Rotate, Red eye removal, saturation, color balance, levels and more  | Yes  | Yes  |  | Yes  | Find duplicates, hierarchical keywords, distributable catalog with free Media Pro reader, offline browsing of images
Picasa | Yes
name, date, rating, faces  | Yes
individual, linear  | Partial
Keywords  | Partial
basic  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
rotation only  | Yes  | collages, Geotagging, Search for Faces, find duplicates
Shotwell | No  | Yes
individual, linear, hide  | Yes
Read IPTC, Exif, XMP  | Yes
Exposure, Saturation, Tint, Shadows, Temperature, and more  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | Non-destructive editor, Auto Enhance Images, Duplicate, Upload, Favorite
STDU Viewer | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  |
Windows Photo Viewer | No  | No  | Yes: Exif  | Yes
rotate, lossless JPEG rotate, annotate TIFF images  | Yes  |  | Yes
rotate only  | Yes  |
XnView and XnViewMP  | Yes
name, date, file size, image size, meta data, ...  | Yes
individual, linear  | Yes
IPTC, Exif, JPEG comment  | Yes
many  | Yes
configurable  | Yes
Custom monitor profile supported  | Yes  | Partial
Supported in XnViewMP  | Supports Adobe Photoshop Filter 8BF plugins
Xv | No  | Partial
individual, all  | Partial
view comments  | Yes
many  | Yes  |  |  |  |
Zoner Photo Studio | Yes
name, date, file size, meta data  | Yes
individual, linear  | Yes
IPTC, Exif, XMP, JPEG comment  | Yes
very many  | Yes
configurable  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | sign images, 16 bits per channel, GPS support, merge pictures to HDR, WIC codecs support
Program  | search (criteria)  | selection (styles)  | metadata  | adjust image (functions)  | hotkeys  | color management (ICC)  | JPEG Lossless operations  | Unicode support  | other / special

## See also

* Comparison of raster graphics editors
* Image editing
* List of Image file formats

## Notes

* iPhoto is part of iLife, which includes a DVD authoring package (iDVD), a video editor (iMovie), a music player (iTunes), a multimedia web publisher (iWeb), and an audio-sequencing program (GarageBand).
* FastPictureViewer's DirectX hardware acceleration support depends on the actual video card installed and the amount of available video memory. The commercial version also supports previewing some camera RAW formats for which a WIC-enabled codec exists. Such RAW codecs are currently available from Canon, Nikon, Olympus, Pentax, Sony and for Adobe DNG.
* Many applications on Mac OS X use either the Core Image or QuickTime APIs for image support. This enables reading and writing to a variety of formats, including JPEG, JPEG 2000, Apple Icon Image format, TIFF, PNG, PDF, BMP and more.
* SView5 may also run on Linux/x86 and MacOS/x86 using Mono.

## References

1. ↑ "[Windows Best free image viewer — IrfanView vs XnView vs FastStone vs Picasa vs Zoner | dotTech"]. October 8, 2013. https://dottech.org/129555/windows-review-top-best-free-image-viewer-program/.
2. ↑ "Supported formats". XnView.com. https://www.xnview.com/en/image_formats/.

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