Alternatives to XnView MP

Views, converts and organises images in more than five hundred formats, free for personal use. 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 XnView MP.

  • IrfanView

    A tiny Windows image viewer that has opened everything since 1996 and still starts instantly.

    FreemiumProprietaryWindows

    IrfanView is a Windows-only viewer that starts instantly and offers batch conversion and renaming, but is also closed source and needs a paid licence for commercial use.

  • ImageGlass

    A fast image viewer that opens the formats Windows still argues about: WebP, JXL, HEIC, AVIF, SVG, HDR and raw.

    FreemiumOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinux

    ImageGlass is an open-source GPL-3.0 viewer for over ninety formats on Windows, macOS and Linux, with light tools but no batch conversion or library tagging.

  • nomacs

    A fast image viewer that opens RAW and PSD files and can show the same picture in two synchronised windows.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinux

    nomacs is a free GPL-3.0 viewer that opens RAW and PSD files with basic batch processing and synchronised windows, but supports fewer formats and minimal adjustments.

  • digiKam

    A photo manager built for libraries of a hundred thousand images, with face recognition, batch processing and heavy metadata support.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinux

    digiKam is a free open-source manager for libraries over 100,000 images with face detection and advanced search, but is a larger application with a steeper learning curve.

  • Geeqie

    Browse and organize images with a Unix desktop viewer.

    FreeOpen sourceLinux

    Geeqie is a free GPL-2.0 viewer for browsing and organizing images without a database, but it targets Linux and Unix-like systems only.

  • JPEGView

    Browse images and make quick edits with a compact viewer.

    FreeOpen sourceWindows

    JPEGView is a free open-source compact viewer for Windows with quick edits and camera RAW support, but lacks batch conversion and library organisation.

Also worth comparing

These listings name XnView MP as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.

  • ImageMagick

    A command-line image toolkit that creates, edits, converts and composes images across more than 200 formats.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinuxCommand line

    XnView MP does batch conversion, renaming and adjustment through a graphical interface across five hundred formats, but it is closed source and not built for scripting.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.