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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Photos

Microsoft Photos is an image viewer and image organizer. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives for Linux.

pwall is billed as a modern style photo/video viewer and organizer.

pho (pronounced like the first syllable in “photo”) is a lightweight program for viewing large numbers of images quickly,

catimg renders images in the terminal. It supports JPEG, PNG and GIF formats.

pxv is an instant feature rich terminal image viewer. It claims to be as fast as catimg, if not faster.

iv is a command-line image viewer which uses Sixel, iTerm Inline Images, or Kitty graphics protocols where available.

imv is a command line image viewer intended for use with tiling window managers.

vipsdisp displays an image with libvips and GTK4. This is supposed to be a slightly useful image viewer.

swayimg is a lightweight image viewer for Wayland display servers.

pqiv is a powerful GTK-based command-line image viewer with a minimal UI. It is highly customizable and can be controlled from scripts.

Pineapple Pictures is a lightweight image viewer that allows you view JPEG, PNG, GIF, SVG, PSD, KRA, XCF, TGA, HDR, AVIF images.

ParaPara is an image viewer created with lightweight and high-speed operation in mind. It’s written in Vala.

Oculante is billed as a fast and simple image viewer and image editor. This is free and open source software.

LXImage-Qt is the Qt port of LXImage, a simple and fast image viewer.

PreviewQt is a file previewer that strives to be lightweight, very fast, and simple. It supports a huge range of files and formats.