100% free and open source picture viewer
Fast Picture Viewer for Windows with compact UI, that can be hidden.
Features image effects, galleries, EXIF, image optimization and more.
The application will automatically adjusts itself to your screen.
Clean, free, fast. No bloated UI. No annoying pop-ups.
Why use PicView
Fast
Uses a built-in preloader to instantly switch to next image.
Clean Design
Compact and neatly organized UI, that can be completely hidden
Archive loading
View pictures inside archives such as ZIP, RAR, 7z, etc (requires 7-Zip or WinRAR to be installed).
Adapts to Screen
The application will automatically fit itself to best fit on your screen
Configurable UI
Change it and customize it to your liking
Want to just show the image with no UI?
Toggle the UI by pressing Alt + Z. Hold shift down to drag window.
UI Settings
The hover buttons and the colored window border can be turned on/off in the settings window.
You can chose a dark or a white theme and choose your favorite accent color.Change background
Press T to toggle background for images with transparent background
Display Image Info
Quickly view image info, which will update values as you browse through images.
Date and time format will be based on your system settings.
Shader effects/Image filters
Choose between 27 different shader effects
Quickly view images with effects applied to them
Effect will be kept when changing images, allowing you to quickly ascertain how each image would look with a certain filter applied.
Effects can be saved on your machine. Effects will also be applied on copying image and setting it as wallpaper.
Fullscreen & Horizontal Gallery
View all files in the current folder as a thumbnail gallery, where you can quickly scroll to the desired image.
Press G to open or close the horizontal gallery
Features smooth and beautiful animations that will adapt to your screen.
The fullscreen gallery is another way to view your images. If you close the application in fullscreen gallery mode, PicView will remember it the next time you open an image with it.
Additional Features
Press X to toggle scroll function with auto scroll (built with manga/comics in mind)
Editing
Rotate, flip, crop, convert to different image file formats
Lossless image optimization
Color Picker tool
Navigating
Drag & drop and pasting from clipholder supports files, folders, URLs and archives
Sort files by: name, file size, date created, last accessed, latest edit, file extension and randomized
Loop through files in folder
Stay on top of other windows
File management
Open file in external application
Cut, copy, send file to recycle bin or delete permanently
Show file in folder
View file properties
Quickly crop image by pressing C
Rename or move files by pressing F2 or right clicking the title bar
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
.cb7
.bmp
.kdc
.wpg
.xz
.jpe
.mef
.xbm
.gzip
.jpeg
.mos
.xpm
.tar
.mrw
.wim
.nef
.iso
.nrw
.cab
.orf
.raf
.raw
.rw2
.srf
.x3f
*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:
Chinese
Spanish
Korean
German
Danish