Free and customizable image viewer

PicView is a fast, free and fully customizable picture viewer for macOS and Windows 10/11. It supports virtually all image file types, including (animated) WEBP, (animated) GIF, SVG, AVIF, HEIC, PSD and many others.

Additional features includes viewing EXIF metadata, image compression, batch resizing, viewing images within archives and comic books, image effects, image galleries, and more.

Enjoy a clean, free, and fast experience with no annoying pop-ups, and zero tracking. It works out of the box — or you can customize it to your needs.

Available in portable and installable versions.

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PicView free and fast picture viewer, light theme

PicView open source image viewer that support zipped files, dark theme

Why use PicView

Fast

Lightning fast start up & uses a built-in preloader to instantly switch to the next image.

Clean Design

Compact, customizable and neatly organized UI, that can be conveniently hidden when not needed.

Archive loading

View pictures inside archives such as ZIP, RAR, CBR, etc (.7z .cb7 and requires 7-Zip or WinRAR to be installed).

Portable

No installer required, does not write to registries, does not need external libraries.

An overview of the UI

Customizable Interface

Switch between a dark and a light theme and toggle between hiding the UI

Want to just show the image with no UI?

Toggle the UI by pressing Alt + Z. Hold shift down to drag window.

The hover buttons, and the hover menu, can be turned on/off in the settings window.

Display Image Info

Quickly view image information, which will update as you browse through images

The Image information window can be opened by pressing I by default.
It will show File information, Printing size, Megapixels, Exif information, such as Date taken, GPS location, etc.

Functions

Losslessly compress current image by pressing the Optimize Image button .

Click on the stars to save EXIF image rating.

Rename or move files by editing the corresponding text-boxes.

Resize image

Changing size can be done by editing the Width or Height text-boxes

Use the % keyboard button to resize it by percentage.

Find where the photograph was taken

If the GPS coordinates are saved on the image, you can click the Google or Bing buttons to open the respective maps at the GPS coordinates.

Image Gallery

Features smooth and beautiful animations that will adapt to your screen

Press G to open or close the image gallery

Navigate the gallery with the arrow keys or W,A,S,D and load the selected image with Enter or the E key.

Right click thumbnails to open the context-menu

Each gallery thumbnail image has it's own context-menu, allowing you to quickly find an image and perform operations for it.

Batch Resizing

Resize, optimize, convert a bunch of images at the same time

Convert/Optimize all your pictures

All selected files will be sent to Output folder. The default name for the output folder will be the localized translation for Batch resize.

The Convert to dropdown option allows you to convert all the files to a popular format.

The Compression dropdown option allows you to compress the files, either without losing quality or sacrifing some quality for greater reduced file size.

The Quality dropdown option allows you to change quality of supported file types. The higher the Quality setting, the more detail is preserved in the image, but the larger the file size.

The Resize dropdown option allows you to resize the picture by height, width and percentage while keeping the aspect ratio of the image.

Generate thumbnails

The thumb tab item allows you to generate up to 7 thumbnails.

They can be resized by height, width and percentage while keeping the aspect ratio.

Each thumbnail will be sent to its own folder. Each folder will have a suggested folder name from small to medium, large etc., in an ascending order

Image Effects

Add various effects to your image, and adjust the brightness or contrast

Use the slider to change the intensity of the effect

Save it locally, set is as wallpaper/lock-screen image, or copy it to clip-holder with the effect applied.

Settings Window

Customize settings to your liking

Press F4 to open the Settings window

From UI => use the shortcut from the context menu
or click the Settings button in the Quick Settings Menu.

Other features

Editing

Rotate, flip and crop.

Lossless image optimization.

Convert to different image file formats.

Navigating

Drag & drop and pasting from clipholder supports files, folders, URLs and archives.

Sort files by: file name, file size, created, last access time, and randomized.

Loop through files in folder.

Stay on top of other windows.

Navigate through file history with the contextmenu or by using the back and forth buttons on your mouse.

File management

Open file in external application.

Copy, duplicate, send file to recycle bin or delete permanently.

Show file in folder.

View file properties.

Quickly crop image by pressing C

Hold Shift for square selection

Rename or move files in the titlebar by pressing F2 or right it.
Changing the file extension will convert the image to the respective format.

Default Shortcuts

Ordered by keyboard layout

* Shortcuts can be changed by opening the Application shortcuts window (K)

Shortcut

Explanation

Esc

Close window or current open menu

Open the about window

Rename or move the current file

Open and select current file in Explorer

Open the settings window

Start slideshow

Open the effects window

Open the batch resize window

F10

Show or hide UI

F11

Toggle fullscreen

Ctrl + Q

Exit the application

Rotates the image up (clockwise).

Scrolls up when scrolling is enabled

E, Enter

Opens highlighted image if in gallery view

Ctrl + E

Open with another application

Reset zoom

Ctrl + R

Reload

Toggle if the applications should stay above other windows

Show the image info window

Ctrl + I

Show file properties

Ctrl + Alt + I

Open the image resize function

O, Ctrl + O

Open file picker dialog

Ctrl + P

Print image

Ctrl + A

Navigate to the first image

Shift + A

Navigate to the previous folder

Rotates the image down (counterclockwise).

Scrolls down when scrolling is enabled

Ctrl + S

Save current file

Ctrl + Shift + S

Save as...

Navigate to the next image

Ctrl + D

Navigate to the last image

Alt + D

Duplicate file

Shift + D

Navigate to the next folder

Flip the image

Ctrl + F

Search for images within current directory

Toggles the gallery view

Open the image resize window

Show the keybindings window

Toggle looping

Alt + Z

Show or hide UI

X, Scroll Lock

Toggle scrolling the image

Crop image

Ctrl + C

Copy image or copy cropped image

Ctrl + Shift + C

Copy file

Ctrl + Alt + C

Copy file path

Ctrl + V

Paste from clipholder, URL, file, file path or image

Alt + Enter

Toggle fulscreen

Toggle background color

Ctrl + N

Open new window

Space

Centers window on the current screen (if gallery is open, it will scroll to the center of the highlighted image)

Left

Navigate to the previous image

Ctrl + Left

Navigate to the first image

Ctrl + Right

Navigate to the last image

Shift + Right

Navigate to the next folder

Shift + Left

Navigate to the previous folder

Scrolls up when scrolling is enabled

Page Up

Scrolls up when scrolling is enabled

Down

Rotates the image down (counterclockwise).

Page Down

Scrolls down when scrolling is enabled

Zooms in at cursor position

Zooms out at cursor position

Del

Send current file to the recycle bin

Shift + Del

Permanently delete current file

Home

Scrolls to the top, when scrolling is enabled

End

Scrolls to the bottom, when scrolling is enabled

Double click

Reset zoom

Mouse Browserback

Go to the previous entry in the file history

Mouse Browserforward

Go to the next entry in the file history

Scrollwheel *

Navigates back or forth

Ctrl + Scrollwheel *

Zoom in or out

* Scrollwheel behavior can be changed in settings

File Support

Common formats

Photoshop & Apple

Camera

Uncommon

Comic Book & archives

.jpg

.psd

.3fr

.pgm

.zip

.png

.psb

.arw

.ppm

.7zip *

.svg

.xcf

.cr2

.cut

.rar

.webp

.heic

.crw

.exr

.cbr

.ico

.hdr

.dcr

.dib

.cb7 *

.tiff

.tga

.dng

.emf

.cbt

.gif

.dds

.erf

.wmf

.cbz

.ico

.hdr

.dcr

.dib

.xz

.bmp

.jxl

.kdc

.wpg

.gzip

.jpe

.jp2

.mef

.xbm

.tar

.jpeg

.heif

.mos

.xpm

.wim

.mrw

.svgz

.iso

.nef

.b64

.cab

.nrw

.qoi

.orf

.avif

.raf

.raw

.rw2

.srf

.x3f

.cr3

*requires 7-Zip or WinRAR installed

PicView also supports reading and converting to and from Base64-image format.

Languages

PicView has been translated into the following languages:

Brazilian Portugese

Danish

Dutch

French

German

Hebrew

Hungarian

Italian

Japenese

Korean

Polish

Romanian

Russian

Serbian

Simplified Chinese

Spanish

Swedish

Traditional Chinese

Turkish