Alternatives to qView
A minimal image viewer that opens instantly and gets out of the way, with no interface beyond the picture. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
qView
A minimal image viewer that opens instantly and gets out of the way, with no interface beyond the picture.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as qView.
PicView
Fast keyboard-driven image viewer for Windows and macOS.
PicView is a GPL-3.0 keyboard-driven viewer with broader format support and light editing, but it runs only on Windows and macOS.
PhotoQt
An image viewer with an uncluttered interface and more than 140 supported formats, plus photo spheres, live photos and map views.
PhotoQt is Linux-first with more than 140 formats, maps and extensive metadata display, at the cost of a larger interface and many settings.
FastStone Image Viewer
A fast Windows image browser, converter and editor covering every common format including HEIC, WebP and camera raw.
FastStone Image Viewer is Windows only and closed source, free for personal use, and adds camera raw support, basic editing and batch conversion.
gThumb
An open-source image viewer and browser for the GNOME desktop on Linux.
gThumb is an open-source viewer and browser for sorting photos on the GNOME desktop, but it runs only on Linux.
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.
Tonfotos
A desktop photo organizer for family archives with face recognition, duplicate finding and phone import.
Mylio Photos
A photo library app that organizes and syncs photos across your own devices without requiring cloud storage.
