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19 Best Free and Open Source Web Photo Gallery Solutions

June 3, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup, Web Apps

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 15 of the most useful open source web photo gallery software.

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Fractals

17 Best Free and Open Source Linux Fractal Tools

May 25, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup

Fractals are rooted in chaos theory, and because of their nature they are perfect for organic looking artwork and landscapes. We recommend the best Linux fractal tools.

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Fractals

Fractals Explorer – real-time GPU-accelerated fractal explorer

May 24, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Fractals Explorer renders Mandelbrot, Julia, Burning Ship and Newton fractals in real time with GPU acceleration and deep zooming.

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Alaska

TermVisage – browse and view images in the terminal

May 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, TUI

TermVisage is a terminal image browser offering recursive navigation, configurable grids, image animations and Kitty/iTerm2 rendering.

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matugen – Material You and Base16 colour generation tool

May 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

matugen generates Material You and Base16 colour schemes from images or colours with flexible templates and extensive customisation.

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imgcat – output images in the terminal

March 5, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

imgcat displays still and animated images using terminal truecolour, with stdin support, transparent backgrounds and image resizing options.

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rsimg – lightweight terminal image viewer

February 18, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, TUI

rsimg renders JPEG and PNG images using Unicode and truecolour output, automatically fitting pictures to the terminal window.

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Fractorium – Qt-based fractal flame editor and animator

November 10, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Fractorium is a Qt fractal flame editor and animator with CPU and OpenCL rendering, flame editing, animation and Linux support.

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Fractals

FLAM3 – fractal flame renderer and genetic language

November 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

FLAM3 renders fractal flames and animations from the command line, with genome generation, mutation, crossover and a reusable C library.

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Fractals

fractal-generator – explore Mandelbrot and Julia fractals

November 9, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

fractal-generator provides an interactive Libadwaita interface for exploring Mandelbrot and Julia sets with keyboard and mouse navigation.

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imv – X11/Wayland image viewer

August 23, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

imv is a lightweight X11 and Wayland image viewer with configurable controls, slideshows, recursive navigation and scriptable commands.

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Adobe Lightroom

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Lightroom Classic

January 5, 2024 Steve Emms Graphics, Software

Adobe Lightroom Classic is a creative image organization and image manipulation software. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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GUI Prototyping

Inkscape – powerful, free design tool

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, and Xara X.

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Fractals

Mandelbulber v2 – generate three-dimensional fractals

October 16, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Mandelbulber2 creates detailed 3D fractals with GPU acceleration, materials, animation, ray marching and distributed rendering.

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Fractals

Gnofract 4D – create and explore fractal images

October 16, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Gnofract 4D creates and explores Mandelbrot, Julia and custom fractals with formula support, deep colouring options and animation.

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Fractals

Fraqtive – interactive Mandelbrot family fractal generator

October 16, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Fraqtive is an interactive Mandelbrot and Julia fractal generator with real-time navigation, anti-aliasing, 3D rendering and image export.

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Fractals

NextFractal – create fractal and algorithmic images

October 16, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

NextFractal creates fractal and algorithmic images from scripts, with interactive exploration, animation tools and image export.

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Fractals

Electric Sheep – collaborative evolving fractal artwork

October 16, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Electric Sheep displays evolving collaborative fractal animations, combining distributed rendering, voting and genetic algorithms.

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Painting tools

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Fresco

September 29, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, Software

Adobe Fresco is a vector and raster drawing and painting app. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Fractals

Qosmic – fractal flame editor for FLAM3

August 13, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Qosmic is a mouse-driven fractal flame editor for flam3 genomes with live previews, mutation tools, palettes, undo and image rendering.

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