Alternatives to Eye of GNOME
The classic GNOME image viewer, with a straightforward interface and support for plugins. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Eye of GNOME
The classic GNOME image viewer, with a straightforward interface and support for plugins.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Eye of GNOME.
Loupe
GNOME's default image viewer, with metadata display and quick crop, rotate and flip edits.
Loupe is GNOME's current default viewer, open source and Linux only, adding a metadata display and quick crop, rotate and flip edits beside the image.
gThumb
An open-source image viewer and browser for the GNOME desktop on Linux.
gThumb is an open-source GNOME viewer and browser under the GPL that works on local folders and adds more photo sorting features than a plain viewer.
Xviewer
Linux Mint's simple image viewer, built on gdk-pixbuf and designed to work across desktops.
Xviewer is Linux Mint's GPL-2.0 viewer built on gdk-pixbuf, designed to work across desktops and handle large images with constant memory use, without plugin support noted.
Gwenview
KDE's image viewer for browsing collections of images, with simple editing and annotation tools.
Gwenview is KDE's open-source viewer with quick folder browsing, basic crop, resize and red-eye edits and annotation tools, and it fits best with the Plasma desktop.
Ristretto
A simple, fast image viewer developed as part of the Xfce desktop environment for Linux.
Ristretto is the Xfce project's lightweight GPL viewer for Linux, quick to open images but offering viewing only, with no editing, library features or plugins.
LXImage-Qt
A lightweight image viewer and screenshot tool from the LXQt desktop project.
LXImage-Qt is a lightweight Qt viewer from LXQt with an Exif panel, thumbnail bar, annotations, screenshots and multipage TIFF support, still Linux only.
nomacs
A fast image viewer that opens RAW and PSD files and can show the same picture in two synchronised windows.
nomacs is open source and cross-platform, running on Windows, macOS and Linux, and opens RAW and PSD files with a metadata panel and basic batch processing.
Geeqie
Browse and organize images with a Unix desktop viewer.
Geeqie is a GPL-2.0 Unix desktop viewer aimed at browsing and organizing image collections without importing them into a database.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Shotwell
A photo manager for the GNOME desktop that imports, organises and makes simple edits to photos.
feh
Lightweight, keyboard-driven image viewer for X11 that also sets wallpapers and lists image files.
nsxiv
A minimal keyboard-driven image viewer for X11 with a thumbnail mode, forked from sxiv.
Swayimg
A customizable image viewer for Wayland compositors and DRM with Lua scripting, gallery and slideshow modes.
