Alternatives to qimgv
A fast, configurable image viewer with basic cropping and resizing and optional video playback. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
qimgv
A fast, configurable image viewer with basic cropping and resizing and optional video playback.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as qimgv.
ImageGlass
A fast image viewer that opens the formats Windows still argues about: WebP, JXL, HEIC, AVIF, SVG, HDR and raw.
ImageGlass is GPL-3.0 and runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, opening over ninety formats with predictive caching, crop and resize, though some features need the paid Pro edition.
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, open-source viewer for Windows, macOS and Linux that opens RAW and PSD files and can sync pan and zoom between two windows.
IrfanView
A tiny Windows image viewer that has opened everything since 1996 and still starts instantly.
IrfanView is a Windows-only, closed-source viewer that opens instantly and adds batch conversion and renaming, but commercial use needs a paid licence.
JPEGView
Browse images and make quick edits with a compact viewer.
JPEGView is a free GPL Windows viewer supporting common formats and many camera RAW files, with quick adjustments but no Linux version or video playback.
Oculante
A fast, simple cross-platform image viewer with basic editing tools and wide format support.
Oculante is a free Rust viewer for Windows, macOS and Linux with wide format support and basic editing tools, though the project is in maintenance mode.
XnView MP
Views, converts and organises images in more than five hundred formats, free for personal use.
XnView MP reads over five hundred formats with batch conversion and tagging on Windows, macOS and Linux, but it is closed source and slower to start.
Gwenview
KDE's image viewer for browsing collections of images, with simple editing and annotation tools.
Gwenview is KDE's Linux viewer with quick folder browsing, basic crop, resize and red-eye edits and annotations, best integrated with the Plasma desktop.
vimiv
An image viewer controlled with vim-like keybindings, with a thumbnail mode and basic editing.
vimiv is a GPL-3.0 Linux viewer driven by vim-style keybindings with a thumbnail mode and basic editing, which takes time to learn for non-vim users.
Also worth comparing
These listings name qimgv as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
BandiView
A Windows image viewer with HDR output, RAW support and a vertical webtoon viewing mode.
qimgv is free and open source for Windows and Linux, with keyboard shortcuts for sorting images, basic crop and resize, and optional video playback, though updates may be slow.
LXImage-Qt
A lightweight image viewer and screenshot tool from the LXQt desktop project.
qimgv is a GPL-3.0 viewer for Windows and Linux with configurable shortcuts, quick copy and move sorting, basic crop and resize, and optional mpv video playback.
Swayimg
A customizable image viewer for Wayland compositors and DRM with Lua scripting, gallery and slideshow modes.
qimgv is a GPL-3.0 viewer for Windows and Linux with configurable themes and shortcuts, basic crop and resize, and optional mpv video playback.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.