Alternatives to FastStone Image Viewer

A fast Windows image browser, converter and editor covering every common format including HEIC, WebP and camera raw. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as FastStone Image Viewer.

  • PicView

    Fast keyboard-driven image viewer for Windows and macOS.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOS

    PicView is free and open source under GPL-3.0 and adds macOS, but it offers only light editing and has no batch converter.

  • qView

    A minimal image viewer that opens instantly and gets out of the way, with no interface beyond the picture.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinux

    qView is open source and runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, but it has no editing, conversion or library features and relies on Qt for formats.

  • PhotoQt

    An image viewer with an uncluttered interface and more than 140 supported formats, plus photo spheres, live photos and map views.

    FreeOpen sourceLinux

    PhotoQt is open source under GPL-2.0 with more than 140 formats, maps and detailed metadata, but it is Linux-first and has no lasting edits.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.