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PicView is a fast Picture Viewer with compact UI, that can be hidden. Features image effects, galleries, light & dark theme, image info and more. The app can automatically adjusts itself to your screen.

Downloads shield GPL v3 License Windows OS


Fullscreen Image Gallery:

View all files in current folder as a fullscreen thumbnail gallery, where you can quickly scroll to desired image.

Horizontal Image Gallery:

View all files in current folder as a thumbnail gallery, with custom animations.

Shader effects/Image filters

Choose between 27 different shader effects (image filters), including negative colors, old movie effect, pencil sketch etc. The effects can be applied to the currently viewed image, allowing you to quickly see how each image would look with a certain effect applied to them.
The effect can be copied to clipholder `Ctrl + C` or you can save it on your file system. The effect will also be applied when setting image as a wallpaper.

Display Image Info

Quickly view image info, which will update values as you browse through images.

Other features

If you have 7-Zip or WinRAR installed, you can view images inside archives, such as .zip, .rar, etc, and comic book archives (.cbr, .cb7, .cbt, .cbz, .cba).

  • For images with a transparent background, the background can be changed to a checkerboard background, a dark background or a white background by pressing T.
  • Interface can be toggled to just show the image by pressing Alt + Z.
  • hover buttons and the colored window border can be toggled on/off in the settings window.
  • Basic editing: rotate, flip, crop, change file type
  • Drag & drop/paste from clipholder support for files, folders, URLs and archives
  • Scroll function (built with manga/comics in mind)
  • Open file in external application, show it in folder or view file properties
  • Color picker


Rename or move files in the titlebar by pressing F2 or right clicking it

File support

.jpg .jpeg .jpe .png .bmp .tif .tiff .gif .ico .jfif .webp
.psd .psb .xcf .svg .heic .tga .dds
.3fr .arw .cr2 .crw .dcr .dng .erf .kdc .mdc .mef .mos .mrw .nef .nrw .f .pef .raf .raw .rw2 .srf .x3f *
.pgm .hdr .cut .exr .dib .emf .wmf .wpg .pcx .xbm .xpm .wbmp *

* RAW camera formats may be slower to load

Translators/Languages

Chinese by Crystal-RainSlide
Spanish by lk.KEVIN
Korean by VenusGirl
German by Brotbox
English and Danish by me

Looking for translators!
If you want to be help translate another language and be listed here.

Contributions

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I am just a single developer working on this in my spare time. So if you like what I have created please star it to show your support, as it would motive me to keep working on it!
Feedback and questions are always appreciated. Create an issue or take a look at an existing one if you want to report a bug or request a feature, or have something on your mind! 😊