Alternatives to Geeqie
Browse and organize images with a Unix desktop viewer. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Geeqie
Browse and organize images with a Unix desktop viewer.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Geeqie.
gThumb
An open-source image viewer and browser for the GNOME desktop on Linux.
gThumb is an open-source GNOME image viewer and browser for Linux that works on local folders, so it suits users who want tighter GNOME desktop integration.
nomacs
A fast image viewer that opens RAW and PSD files and can show the same picture in two synchronised windows.
nomacs is a free GPL-3.0 viewer that opens RAW and PSD files and synchronises two windows, running on Windows and macOS as well as Linux.
XnView MP
Views, converts and organises images in more than five hundred formats, free for personal use.
XnView MP adds batch conversion and tagging across five hundred formats on Windows, macOS and Linux, but it is closed source with paid commercial use.
Gwenview
KDE's image viewer for browsing collections of images, with simple editing and annotation tools.
Gwenview is KDE's image viewer, which adds basic crop, resize and red-eye edits plus arrow and text annotation, and it works best on the KDE Plasma desktop.
ImageGlass
A fast image viewer that opens the formats Windows still argues about: WebP, JXL, HEIC, AVIF, SVG, HDR and raw.
ImageGlass is a GPL-3.0 viewer with over ninety formats and light tools, though its Linux build is much newer than the Windows one and some features are Pro only.
Loupe
GNOME's default image viewer, with metadata display and quick crop, rotate and flip edits.
Loupe is GNOME's default image viewer, offering a simpler modern interface with metadata display and quick crop, rotate and flip, but it has fewer collection browsing features.
Eye of GNOME
The classic GNOME image viewer, with a straightforward interface and support for plugins.
Eye of GNOME is a simpler open-source Linux viewer with plugin support, focused on viewing with little editing or organising.
qimgv
A fast, configurable image viewer with basic cropping and resizing and optional video playback.
qimgv runs on Windows and Linux, adds quick copy and move shortcuts for sorting folders, and offers optional video playback via mpv, marked experimental.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Geeqie as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
LXImage-Qt
A lightweight image viewer and screenshot tool from the LXQt desktop project.
Geeqie is a GPL-2.0 Unix viewer geared to browsing and organizing image collections without importing them into a database.
nsxiv
A minimal keyboard-driven image viewer for X11 with a thumbnail mode, forked from sxiv.
Geeqie is a fuller Linux desktop viewer for browsing and organising collections, trading nsxiv's minimal keyboard-driven design for a traditional graphical interface.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
digiKam
A photo manager built for libraries of a hundred thousand images, with face recognition, batch processing and heavy metadata support.
Shotwell
A photo manager for the GNOME desktop that imports, organises and makes simple edits to photos.
KPhotoAlbum
A KDE desktop app for tagging, describing and quickly searching large personal photo collections.
feh
Lightweight, keyboard-driven image viewer for X11 that also sets wallpapers and lists image files.
Fotocx
A free Linux photo editor and collection manager released under the GPL version 3.
