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IrfanView vs ImageMagick: catalog facts
IrfanView	ImageMagick
Freemium Free for private, educational and charitable use. A paid licence is required for…	Free Free and open source under the ImageMagick licence, an Apache 2.0 style licence.
Windows	Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
Opens instantly, even on old hardware Batch conversion and renaming across whole folders	Over 200 formats, with conversion, resizing, compositing and effects from one command APIs for most programming languages as well as the command line
Windows only and closed source Commercial use needs a paid licence	The project advises creating and validating a security policy before use, especially with untrusted files Its format handling has been a repeated source of security vulnerabilities
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Closed source	Open source
License not stated	License: ImageMagick
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026

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