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, CBZ (Archive), CBR (Archive), and many others.
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.
Downloads
Latest releases at PicView.org
Scoop:
scoop bucket add extras;
scoop install extras/picview
Winget:
winget install picview
Homebrew:
brew install picview
Mirrors
uptodown
FossHub
SourceForge
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Features and screenshots
UI overview with bottom gallery.
Switch between a dark and a light theme and toggle between hiding the UI.
Perform operations such as renaming, file conversion, copying, compressing, resizing, adding it to the recycle bin and editing the EXIF image rating.
You can change the image size by editing the width and/or height textboxes. To resize by a percentage, simply add the % symbol after the value.
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
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.
The bottom gallery can be turned on or off
Quickly crop image by pressing C. Hold Shift for square selection.
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
Renaming
Rename or move files in the title bar by pressing F2 or right-clicking it.
Changing the file extension will convert the image to the respective format.
File support
- Common: .jpg .jpeg .jpe .png .bmp .tif .tiff .gif .ico .jfif .webp .svg .svgz
- Advanced: .psd .psb .xcf .jxl .heic .heif .jp2 .hdr .tga .dds
- Archive: .zip .7zip .7z .rar .cbr .cb7 .cbt .cbz .xz .bzip2 .gzip .tar .wim .iso .cab
- RAW: .3fr .arw .cr2 .cr3 .crw .dcr .dng .erf .kdc .mdc .mef .mos .mrw .nef .nrw .orf .pef .raf .raw .rw2 .srf .x3f
- Other: .pgm .hdr .cut .exr .dib .emf .wmf .wpg .pcx .xbm .xpm .wbmp
Shortcuts
You can view and change keyboard shortcuts by opening the Keybindings window by pressing K.
Alternatively, they are also listed at PicView.org.
Technical overview
PicView is built in C# .NET using Avalonia cross-platform XAML UI framework.
All builds are compiled using NativeAOT (with trimming), resulting in a fully self-contained native executable.
Using Cysharp’s ZLinq and ZString for zero allocation and high performance, and R3 for high-performance ViewModel binding and event streams.
Magick.NET is used for its rich file support, image editing, and information capabilities.
Contributions
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