Linux image viewer console

List of applications/Multimedia

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Multimedia

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Image

Image viewers

Framebuffer image viewers

• fbi — Image viewer for the linux framebuffer console.

https://www.kraxel.org/blog/linux/fbida/ || fbida

• fbv — Very simple graphic file viewer for the framebuffer console.

http://s-tech.elsat.net.pl/fbv/ || fbv

• fim — Highly customizable and scriptable framebuffer image viewer based on fbi.

https://www.nongnu.org/fbi-improved/ || fimAUR

• jfbview — Framebuffer PDF and image viewer based on Imlib2. Features include Vim-like controls, rotation and zoom, zoom-to-fit, and fast multi-threaded rendering.

https://github.com/jichu4n/jfbview || jfbviewAUR

Graphical image viewers

• CoreImage — Simple lightweight easy to use image viewer based on Qt. Part of C-Suite.

https://cubocore.org/ || coreimageAUR

• Deepin Image Viewer — Image viewer for Deepin desktop.

https://www.deepin.org/en/original/deepin-image-viewer/ || deepin-image-viewer

• Ephoto — A light image viewer based on EFL.

https://www.enlightenment.org/about-ephoto || ephotoAUR

• Eye of GNOME — Image viewing and cataloging program, which is a part of the GNOME desktop environment.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/EyeOfGnome || eog

• Eye of MATE — Simple graphics viewer for the MATE desktop.

https://github.com/mate-desktop/eom || eom

• EyeSight — Image viewer for the Hawaii desktop environment.

https://github.com/hawaii-desktop/eyesight || eyesightAUR

• feh — Fast, lightweight image viewer that uses imlib2.

https://feh.finalrewind.org/ || feh

• GalaPix — OpenGL-based image viewer for simultaneously viewing and zooming large collections of image files,

https://github.com/Galapix/galapix || galapixAUR

• Geeqie — Image browser and viewer (fork of GQview) that adds additional functionality such as support for RAW files.

http://geeqie.org/ || geeqie

• GPicView — Simple and fast image viewer for X, which is part of the LXDE desktop.

http://lxde.sourceforge.net/gpicview/ || gpicview

• Gwenview — Fast and easy to use image viewer for the KDE desktop.

https://apps.kde.org/gwenview/ || gwenview

• ida — X11 application (Motif based) for viewing images.

https://www.kraxel.org/blog/linux/fbida/ || fbida + libxpm + openmotif

• imv — Lightweight image viewer with support for Wayland and animated GIFs which uses FreeImage.

https://www.github.com/eXeC64/imv/ || imv

• Koko — Image viewer designed for desktop and touch devices.

https://apps.kde.org/koko/ || kokoAUR

• KuickShow — Fast and convenient image viewer for KDE.

https://userbase.kde.org/KuickShow || kuickshow

• LxImage-Qt — The LXQt image viewer.

https://github.com/lxde/lximage-qt || lximage-qt

• meh — meh is a small, simple, super fast image viewer using raw XLib.

https://www.johnhawthorn.com/meh/ || meh-gitAUR

• Mirage — PyGTK image viewer featuring support for crop and resize, custom actions and a thumbnail panel.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/mirageiv.berlios/ || mirageAUR

• nomacs — Qt image viewer. It is feature-rich but starts fast and can be configured to show additional widgets or only the image.

https://nomacs.org/ || nomacs

• PhotoQt — Fast and highly configurable image viewer with a simple and nice interface.

https://photoqt.org/ || photoqtAUR

• pqiv — GTK 3 based command-line image viewer with a minimal UI supporting images in compressed archives, rewrite of qiv.

https://github.com/phillipberndt/pqiv/ || pqiv

• qimgv — Fast and easy to use Qt5 image viewer. Supports webm/mp4 playback via mpv.

https://github.com/easymodo/qimgv/ || qimgvAUR

• qeh — Actually fast and simple image viewer. Like feh but faster and simpler, and support for more formats.

https://github.com/sandsmark/qeh/ || qeh-gitAUR

• Quick Image Viewer — Very small and fast image viewer based on GTK and imlib2.

http://spiegl.de/qiv/ || qiv

• qView — Qt image viewer designed with minimalism and usability in mind.

https://interversehq.com/qview/ || qviewAUR

• Ristretto — Fast and lightweight image viewer for the Xfce desktop environment.

https://docs.xfce.org/apps/ristretto/start || ristretto

• shufti — shufti non-destructively saves and restores the zoom level, rotation, window size, desktop location and viewing area on a per-image/file location basis

https://github.com/danboid/shufti || shuftiAUR

• sxiv — Simple image viewer based on imlib2 that works well with tiling window managers.

https://github.com/muennich/sxiv || sxiv

• Viewnior — Minimalistic GTK image viewer featuring support for flipping, rotating, animations and configurable mouse actions.

https://siyanpanayotov.com/project/viewnior || viewnior

• Vimiv — An image viewer with vim-like keybindings. It is written in python3 using the Gtk3 toolkit.

https://karlch.github.io/vimiv/ || vimiv

• Vimiv (Qt port) — An image viewer with vim-like keybindings. It is written in python3 and PyQt5.

https://karlch.github.io/vimiv-qt/ || vimiv-qtAUR

• vpv — Image viewer designed for scientific image visualization.

https://github.com/kidanger/vpv || vpvAUR

• Xloadimage — Classic X image viewer.

https://sioseis.ucsd.edu/xloadimage.html [dead link 2021-05-17 ⓘ] || xloadimage

Image organizers

• Deepin Album — Photo manager for viewing and organizing pictures, for Deepin desktop.

https://github.com/linuxdeepin/deepin-album || deepin-album

• digiKam — KDE-based image organizer with built-in editing features via a plugin architecture. digiKam asserts it is more full featured than similar applications with a larger set of image manipulation features including RAW image import and manipulation.

https://www.digikam.org/ || digikam

• Frogr — Small application for the GNOME desktop that allows users to manage their accounts in the Flickr image hosting website.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Frogr || frogrAUR

• GNOME Photos — Access, organize, and share your photos on GNOME.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Photos || gnome-photos

• gThumb — Image viewer and browser for the GNOME desktop.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gthumb || gthumb

• KPhotoAlbum — Digital image cataloging software that supports annotation, browsing, searching and viewing of digital images and videos.

https://www.kphotoalbum.org/ || kphotoalbum

• Memories — Image viewer and manager designed for elementary OS.

https://anufrij.org/memories/ || showmypicturesAUR

• Pantheon Photos — Photo organizer for Pantheon.

https://launchpad.net/pantheon-photos || pantheon-photos

• PhotoPrism — Personal Photo Management powered by Go and Google TensorFlow

https://photoprism.app/ || photoprismAUR

• Phototonic — Fast and functional image viewer and browser (Qt).

https://github.com/oferkv/phototonic/ || phototonic

• Pix — Image gallery and image viewer that can be used to open images with other applications like an image editor, add tags to the files, add annotations to pictures, rotate and share them.

https://apps.kde.org/pix/ || maui-pix

• Pix — Image viewer and browser based on gthumb. X-Apps Project.

https://github.com/linuxmint/pix || pixAUR

• Rapid Photo Downloader — Download photos and videos from cameras, memory cards and portable storage devices.

https://www.damonlynch.net/rapid/ || rapid-photo-downloader

• Shotwell — A digital photo organizer designed for the GNOME desktop environment

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Shotwell || shotwell

Image processing

• CairoSVG — SVG to PNG, PDF, PS converter.

https://cairosvg.org/ || python-cairosvg

• Converseen — Qt-based batch image converter and resizer.

https://converseen.fasterland.net/ || converseen

• CropGUI — GTK utility for lossless cropping and rotation of jpeg files

https://github.com/jepler/cropgui || cropguiAUR

• dcraw — Converts many camera RAW formats.

https://dechifro.org/dcraw/ || dcraw

• G’MIC — Full-featured open-source framework for image processing, providing several different user interfaces to convert/manipulate/filter/visualize generic image datasets, ranging from 1d scalar signals to 3d+t sequences of multi-spectral volumetric images, including 2d color images.

https://www.gmic.eu/ || gmic

• GraphicsMagick — Fork of ImageMagick designed to have API and command-line stability. It also supports multi-CPU for enhanced performance and thus is used by some large commercial sites (Flickr, etsy) for its performance.

http://www.graphicsmagick.org/ || graphicsmagick

• ImageMagick — Command-line image manipulation program. It is known for its accurate format conversions with support for over 100 formats. Its API enables it to be scripted and it is usually used as a backend processor.

https://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php || imagemagick

• PosteRazor — Cut an image or PDF into pieces which can be printed and assembled to a poster

https://posterazor.sourceforge.io/ || posterazor

Image compression

Console

• Guetzli — A perceptual JPEG encoder, aiming for excellent compression density at high visual quality.

https://github.com/google/guetzli || guetzli

• jpegoptim — JPEG optimization utility providing lossless and lossy compression.

https://www.kokkonen.net/tjko/projects.html#jpegoptim || jpegoptim

• optipng — Lossless PNG compressor.

http://optipng.sourceforge.net/ || optipng

• oxipng — Lossless multithreaded PNG compressor.

https://github.com/shssoichiro/oxipng || oxipng

• pngcrush — Tool for optimizing the compression of PNG files.

https://pmt.sourceforge.io/pngcrush/ || pngcrush

• pngquant — Lossy compression of PNG images.

https://pngquant.org/ || pngquant

• zopflipng — Highly efficient PNG optimisation tool using Google’s zopfli library

https://github.com/google/zopfli || zopflipng-gitAUR

Graphical

• Curtail — GTK-based image compressor, supporting PNG and JPEG file types.

https://github.com/Huluti/Curtail || curtail

• Image Optimizer — Simple lossless image optimizer built with Vala and Gtk for Elementary OS.

https://github.com/GijsGoudzwaard/Image-Optimizer || image-optimizer-gitAUR

• Trimage — Qt-based tool for optimizing PNG and JPG files.

https://trimage.org/ || trimageAUR

Raster graphics editors

• AzPainter — Painting software for illustration drawing.

https://gitlab.com/azelpg/azpainter || azpainterAUR

• CorePaint — Simple bitmap painting tool to produce very simple graphics. Part of C-Suite.

https://cubocore.org/ || corepaintAUR

• Deepin Draw — Lightweight drawing tool for Deepin desktop.

https://github.com/linuxdeepin/deepin-draw || deepin-draw

• Drawing — Drawing application for the GNOME desktop, using Cairo and GdkPixbuf for basic drawing operations.

https://github.com/maoschanz/drawing || drawing

• Drawpile — Collaborative drawing program that allows multiple users to sketch on the same canvas simultaneously.

https://drawpile.net/ || drawpileAUR

• GIMP — Image editing suite in the vein of proprietary editors such as Adobe Photoshop. GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) has been started in the mid 1990s and has acquired a large number of plugins and additional tools.

https://www.gimp.org/ || gimp

• Glimpse — A fork of GIMP, usability-focused free software application capable of expert level image manipulation.

https://glimpse-editor.github.io/ || glimpse-editorAUR [broken link: package not found]

• Gpaint — Paintbrush clone for GNOME.

https://www.gnu.org/software/gpaint/ || gpaintAUR

• GrafX2 — Bitmap paint program specialized in 256 color drawing.

http://grafx2.chez.com/ || grafx2

• ImEditor — Simple and versatile image editor.

https://imeditor.github.io/ || imeditorAUR

• KolourPaint — Free raster graphics editor for KDE, similar to Microsoft’s Paint application before Windows 7, but with some additional features such as support for transparency. Part of kde-applications and kde-graphics groups.

http://kolourpaint.org/ || kolourpaint

• Krita — Digital painting and illustration software included based on the KDE platform.

https://krita.org/ || krita

• Milton — Infinite-canvas paint program.

https://www.miltonpaint.com/ || miltonAUR

• mtPaint — Graphics editing program geared towards creating indexed palette images and pixel art.

http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/ || mtpaint

• MyPaint — Free software graphics application for digital painters.

http://mypaint.org || mypaint

• PhotoFlare — Simple but powerful image editor originally inspired by PhotoFiltre.

https://photoflare.io/ || photoflare

• Pinta — Drawing and editing program modeled after Paint.NET. Its goal is to provide a simplified alternative to GIMP for casual users.

https://pinta-project.com/ || pinta

• Pixelitor — Advanced image editor with support for layers, layer masks, text layers, multiple undo, blending modes, cropping, Gaussian blurring, unsharp masking, histograms, etc.

https://pixelitor.sourceforge.io/ || pixelitorAUR

• Swappy — Wayland native snapshot editing tool.

https://github.com/jtheoof/swappy || swappy

• XPaint — Color image editing tool which features most standard paint program options.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/sf-xpaint/ || xpaintAUR

Some image viewers and organizers like digiKam, Ephoto, GNOME Photos, gThumb, ida, nomacs, Pantheon Photos, Phototonic and Shotwell also provide some basic image manipulation functionality.

Specialized photo editors

• darktable — Photography workflow and RAW development application.

https://www.darktable.org/ || darktable

• Filmulator — Simple raw photo editor based on the process of developing film.

https://filmulator.org/ || filmulatorAUR

• FOSStriangulator — Tool for making triangulated illustrations out of photos.

https://github.com/FOSStriangulator/FOSStriangulator || fosstriangulatorAUR

• Hugin — Panorama photo stitcher.

http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ || hugin

• LightZone — Professional-level digital darkroom and photo editor comparable to Photoshop Lightroom.

http://lightzoneproject.org/ || lightzoneAUR

• Luminance HDR — Open source graphical user interface application that aims to provide a workflow for HDR imaging.

http://qtpfsgui.sourceforge.net/ || luminancehdr

• nUFRaw — Utility to read and manipulate raw images from digital cameras using DCRaw.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/nufraw/ || gimp-nufraw

• Oqapy — Photographic workflow application.

https://oqapy.eu/ || oqapyAUR

• Rawstudio — Raw-image converter written in GTK.

https://rawstudio.org/ || rawstudioAUR

• RawTherapee — A powerful cross-platform raw image processing program.

https://www.rawtherapee.com/ || rawtherapee

• Showfoto — Photo editor with powerful image editing tools.

https://www.digikam.org/ || digikam

Photo geotagging

• Geotag — Match date/time information from photos with location information from a GPS unit or from a map.

http://geotag.sourceforge.net/ || geotag

• Geotagging — Photography geotagging tool to synchronize photos with gps track log (GPX).

https://github.com/jmlich/geotagging || geotaggingAUR

• GottenGeography — Easy to use photo geotagging application for the GNOME desktop.

https://launchpad.net/gottengeography || gottengeography

• GPicSync — Inserts location in your pictures metadata from a GPS tracklog.

https://github.com/FrancoisSchnell/GPicSync || gpicsyncAUR

• GPSCorrelate — Correlate (geotagging) digital camera photos with GPS data in GPX format.

https://github.com/freefoote/gpscorrelate || gpscorrelate

Vector graphics editors

• Dia — GTK-based diagram creation program.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Dia || dia

• diagrams.net — Diagram drawing application built on web technology. Based on the Electron platform.

https://www.diagrams.net/ || drawio-desktopAUR

• Dot Matrix — The glyph playground of creativity from simple lines.

https://github.com/lainsce/dot-matrix/ || dot-matrixAUR

• Figma — Unofficial desktop application for Figma collaborative design tool. Based on the Electron platform.

https://github.com/Figma-Linux/figma-linux || figma-linuxAUR

• Gravit Designer — Proprietary vector design application. Based on the Electron platform.

https://designer.io/ || gravit-designer-binAUR

• Inkscape — Vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) file format. Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. It’s developers also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development.

https://inkscape.org/ || inkscape

• Karbon — Vector graphics editor, part of the Calligra Suite.

https://www.calligra.org/karbon/ || calligra

• LibreOffice Draw — Vector graphics editor and diagramming tool included in the LibreOffice suite similar to Microsoft Visio.

https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/draw/ || libreoffice-still or libreoffice-fresh

• Mockingbot — Proprietary prototyping & collaboration design tool. Based on the Electron platform.

https://mockingbot.com/ || mockingbotAUR

• OpenOffice Draw — Vector graphics editor and diagramming tool included in the OpenOffice suite.

https://www.openoffice.org/product/draw.html || openoffice-binAUR

• Pencil Project — GUI prototyping and mockup tool. Based on the Electron platform.

https://pencil.evolus.vn/ || pencilAUR

• sK1 — Replacement for Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw, oriented for «prepress ready» PostScript & PDF output.

https://sk1project.net/ || sk1AUR

• SvgVi — SVG viewer and editor using XML declarations.

https://gitlab.com/pwmc/svgvi || svgviAUR

• yEd — General-purpose proprietary diagramming program for flowcharts, network diagrams, UML diagrams, BPMN diagrams, mind maps, organization charts, and Entity Relationship diagrams.

https://www.yworks.com/products/yed || yedAUR

• Xfig — Interactive drawing tool.

http://mcj.sourceforge.net/ || xfigAUR

Font editors

2D animation

• enve — Flexible, user expandable 2D animation software.

https://maurycyliebner.github.io/ || enve-gitAUR

• Glaxnimate — Vector 2D animation software, mainly for Lottie and TGS formats, but have a good standard animated SVG export

https://glaxnimate.mattbas.org/ || glaxnimateAUR

• OpenToonz — 2D animation creation software.

https://opentoonz.github.io/e/ || opentoonz

• Pencil2D — Easy, intuitive tool to make 2D hand-drawn animations.

https://www.pencil2d.org/ || pencil2d

• qStopMotion — Application for creating stop-motion animation movies. The users will be able to create stop-motions from pictures imported from a camera or from the harddrive and export the animation to different video formats such as mpeg or avi.

http://qstopmotion.org/ || qstopmotion

• Scribl — Application to create simple video lectures that combine audio with hand-drawn animation.

https://www.scribl.ink/ || scriblAUR

• Stopmotion — Application to create stop-motion animations. It helps you capture and edit the frames of your animation and export them as a single file.

http://linuxstopmotion.org/ || stopmotionAUR

• Synfig Studio — 2D animation software, designed as powerful industrial-strength solution for creating film-quality animation using a vector and bitmap artwork.

https://www.synfig.org/ || synfigstudio

• TupiTube Desk — Desktop application to create and share 2D animations, focused on kids and teenagers.

https://www.maefloresta.com/ || tupitube

• Aseprite — Pixel art 2d animation

http://www.aseprite.org/ || asepriteAUR

• Pixelorama — Pixel art 2d animation

https://orama-interactive.itch.io/pixelorama || pixeloramaAUR

The drawing application Krita and the 3D editor Blender (Grease Pencil mode) have both 2D animation features too.

3D computer graphics

• Art of Illusion — 3D modeling and rendering studio written in Java.

http://www.artofillusion.org/ || aoiAUR

• Blender — Fully integrated 3D graphics creation suite capable of 3D modeling, texturing, and animation, among other things.

https://www.blender.org/ || blender

• CloudCompare — 3D point cloud and mesh processing software.

https://cloudcompare.org/ || cloudcompareAUR

• Dust3D — 3D modeling software. It helps you create a 3D watertight base model in seconds. Use it to speed up your character modeling in game making, 3D printing, and so on.

https://dust3d.org/ || dust3dAUR

• F3D — A fast and minimalist KISS 3D viewer. Supported file formats: VTK (legacy and XML), STL, GLTF, PLY, OBJ, 3DS, …

https://kitware.github.io/F3D/ || f3dAUR

• Goxel — Open Source 3D voxel editor.

https://goxel.xyz/ || goxel

• MakeHuman™ — Parametrical modeling program for creating human bodies.

http://www.makehumancommunity.org/ || makehumanAUR

• MeshLab — System for processing and editing 3D triangular meshes.

https://www.meshlab.net/ || meshlabAUR

• Sweet Home 3D — Interior design software application for the planning and development of floor plans

http://sweethome3d.com/ || sweethome3d

• POV-Ray — Script-based raytracer for creating 3D graphics.

https://www.povray.org/ || povray

• VoxelShop — Extremely intuitive and powerful software to modify and create voxel objects.

https://blackflux.com/node/11 [dead link 2021-05-17 ⓘ] || voxelshopAUR

• Wings 3D — Advanced subdivision modeler that is both powerful and easy to use.

http://www.wings3d.com/ || wings3dAUR

Color pickers and palettes

• Agave — Colorscheme designer tool for GNOME.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170327063642/http://home.gna.org/colorscheme/ || agaveAUR

• Chameleon — Simple color picker for X11 which outputs colors to stdout.

https://github.com/seebye/chameleon || chameleon-gitAUR

• ColorGrab — Cross-platform color picker.

https://github.com/nielssp/colorgrab || colorgrabAUR

• Color Palette — Tool for viewing the GNOME color palette as defined by the design guidelines.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/design/palette || paletteAUR

• colorpicker — Click on a pixel on your screen and print its color value in RGB. Written for X11.

https://github.com/Jack12816/colorpicker || colorpickerAUR

• Color Picker — Simplistic color picker for the Pantheon desktop.

https://github.com/RonnyDo/ColorPicker || color-pickerAUR

• Coulr — Color box to help developers and designers.

https://github.com/Huluti/Coulr || coulrAUR

• Deepin Picker — Color picker tool for Deepin desktop.

https://www.deepin.org/en/original/deepin-picker/ || deepin-picker

• delicolour — Lightweight GTK 3 color finder.

https://github.com/eepp/delicolour || delicolourAUR

• gcolor2 — Simple GTK 2 color selector.

http://gcolor2.sourceforge.net/ || gcolor2

• Gcolor3 — Simple GTK 3 color selector.

https://www.hjdskes.nl/projects/gcolor3/ || gcolor3

• GPick — Advanced color picker tool.

http://www.gpick.org/ || gpick

• KColorChooser — Simple application to select the color from the screen or from a pallete. Part of kde-graphics .

https://apps.kde.org/kcolorchooser/ || kcolorchooser

• Kontrast — Tool to check contrast for colors that allows verifying that your colors are correctly accessible. Part of kde-accessibility .

https://apps.kde.org/kontrast/ || kontrast

• MATE Color Selection — Choose colors from the palette or the screen. Run with mate-color-select .

https://mate-desktop.org/ || mate-desktop

• Pick — Simple color picker tool for the Linux desktop.

https://www.kryogenix.org/code/pick || pick-colour-pickerAUR

• PrestoPalette — An artist’s tool for creating harmonious color palettes.

https://github.com/PrestoPalette/PrestoPalette || prestopaletteAUR

• xcolor — Lightweight color picker for X11.

https://soft.github.io/xcolor/ || xcolorAUR

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Digital camera managers

Audio

Audio systems

Audio players

Many applications in the #Video players section also support audio playback.

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