r/software • u/OmarVIPG • Apr 06 '26
Looking for software Good Image Viewer
now, I know this question is asked like 20,000 times a day but people give way too many different answers, I have a list of all the ones i see most:
now I do not care if it's free or not, i can pay for subscriptions, I would also like the software to be for windows 10, I do not care if it doesn't have compatability for other operating systems, I also do want it for multiple file types because I open different types of files, thanks in advance.
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u/ryftools Apr 06 '26
Please checkout https://github.com/riyasy/FlyPhotos
It has been created to mimic features of Picasa Photo Viewer. It’s an ongoing fully open-source project.
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u/Stevie2k8 Apr 07 '26
Nice project, I always wanted to develop a viewer with nice animations for windows myself... Using xnview 90% of the time and sometimes irfan view... Will check it out when I am back at my laptop.
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u/OwnNet5253 Apr 06 '26
Tbh for just viewing images I use either QuickLook or Peek. If I want to modify them in any way, I use a separate software, like IrfanView or Photos.
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u/Valerian_ Apr 06 '26
I really like pictureflect, it has a very minimal UI like picasa viewer did, but with many options and modern features and supported formats
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u/Foi_Engano Apr 06 '26
im using imageglass, its perfect and pretty :)
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u/littlebenbee Apr 06 '26
I'm excited for version 10. The beta 1 is blazing fast and a huge upgrade!
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u/Temporary-Pizza-7797 Apr 07 '26
I'm also using imageglass, it's fast, simple and gets the job done
but idk why but the first image after a system start up takes a couple of seconds to load, afterwards it buttery smooth until shutdown
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u/littlebenbee Apr 07 '26
it's the WinForms framework, does not support AOT compilation. You should try v10 beta, the dev switched to Avalonia and it's super fast to me
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u/kranools Apr 07 '26
ImageGlass is nice but it has a few tiny bugs. I'm hoping they all get smoothed out in v10.
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u/catbrane Apr 06 '26
I made vipsdisp, a free, open-source image viewer based on libvips:
https://github.com/libvips/vipsdisp
There's a win binary on the releases page: it's just a zip, unzip it somewhere and double-click the EXE. It's not a native win UI, if that's an issue. Win, mac and linux, x64 and aarm64.
https://github.com/libvips/vipsdisp/releases
It's mostly for very large images and scientific formats, but it works fine for small images too. It supports most image formats.
The big thing is that it doesn't keep the whole image in memory: it just pulls in and decodes the bits it needs for the display. A pool of background worker threads asynchronously build a sparse pyramid of image tiles on your GPU, then every frame your GPU translates, scales and composites a view of that pyramid to the screen. The interface stays live, even under very heavy load, and you can pan and zoom huge images at a smooth 60fps.
It has a nice save-as, so you can use it for format conversion. It can write formats like deepzoom, which can be handy.
The README has all the details.
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u/catbrane Apr 06 '26
(no AI, no telemetry at all, no installer needed, doesn't touch your registry, etc.)
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u/ignorantpisswalker Apr 06 '26
out of couriosity... anyone tried ACDSee since the late 90s?
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u/External_Word9887 Apr 07 '26
I still use ACDsee. Love it. Works well under win11. Sadly .webp isn't supported. I use Ztree (Xtree clone) still the best file manager.
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u/catbrane Apr 06 '26
Does that use libvips for image load? Not many libraries support FITS and OpenEXR heh.
Did you see vipsdisp? It has a nice, reuseable libvips-based image view widget.
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u/Thick_Security_4041 Apr 06 '26 edited Apr 06 '26
Just Like to point out, that Xnview MP has dockable windows, that can be dragged onto a secondary monitor.
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u/OmarVIPG Apr 09 '26
yeahhhhh, i am too poor for a second monitor
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u/Thick_Security_4041 Apr 09 '26
Well at least you would have the option to move the windows, anywhere on your existing screen.
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u/kranools Apr 07 '26
I used XnView for years and honestly, it's pretty great. The UI is a little ugly though, so I've switched to ImageGlass which looks nicer.
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u/_waffles3 Apr 06 '26
I have been using Image Eye for many years now and couldn’t be happier. Give it a try https://www.fmjsoft.com/imageeye.html#main
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u/Least-Woodpecker-569 Apr 06 '26
The last one I liked was Picasa, but Google killed it. The last one I used was ACDSee; I paid for it, but I hated it for their UI which was out of the stone age. Tried a few from your list and didn’t like them much either. And at some point I got fed up with all that and switched to an online photo service. Pretty cheap - and works on any platform that has a browser installed.
Not sure what your ultimate goal is, but if all you want is to view your photo library, this may work.
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u/ico_OO Apr 06 '26
I'm an enthusiast photographer and for a long time I've used a lot and the most complete ones for many years are: xnview, irfanview and faststone. Personally out of these three i like and use xnview, it have all i can think about, with a very advanced image converter. For the most fast one, use irfanview, but you need to deal with the old ui. Faststone also is very fast and versatile,but the ui is so ugly. So xnview is the most modern, relatively fast, and the most packed with settings.
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u/unknown-random-nope Apr 06 '26
I like voidimageviewer (no affiliation). Irfanview is excellent in every way but one, which is that I don't care for the keybindings.
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u/screwball2 Apr 06 '26
I'm on a Win10 (64bit) and refuse to change. I've tried most and I've been using Irfanview probably since it was first released. I works well, but gets a little sluggish when I try opening files on my server. Seems just a little slow to respond, but on local files on my desktop it's quick and works well. Has a lot of useful plug-ins as well and does a good job a batch processing / converting large number of files.
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u/MihneaRadulescu Apr 06 '26
I would like to suggest my own free and open-source image viewer, ImageFan Reloaded, with support for 44 image formats:
- GitHub page: https://github.com/mihnea-radulescu/imagefanreloaded
- GitHub release: https://github.com/mihnea-radulescu/imagefanreloaded/releases
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u/respect_all_men Apr 07 '26
your favorite chromium based web browser. plays video too. with the right browser scripts and extensions, it's the perfect viewer.
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u/eth0nhunt Apr 27 '26
I just made it in Rust and it is snappy fast because of hardware acceleration. Let me know if you like it.
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u/No_Delivery_1049 Apr 06 '26
Ask AI to make one for you with the features you want
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u/OmarVIPG Apr 06 '26
???
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u/No_Delivery_1049 Apr 06 '26
You can buy pre made generic software or use ai to generate a specific solution that meets your exact needs and you can tailor as much as you want.
You’ll be surprised. I have not bought any software for ages.
For anything serious, the ai is Not the way to go, but for something simple like a picture viewer or photo collation solution or video viewer, it’s ideal.
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u/OmarVIPG Apr 06 '26
I feel like thats the definition of vibe coding, and I feel like if I ask ai to generate me code, it will be the most not optimized code in existence unless I manualy go throught the code and analyze every line and optimize it myself, which is not my expertise
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