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roseate – simple image viewer

March 15, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Roseate is an image viewer built in Rust with a focus on speed, configurability, and a polished desktop experience.

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imgcat – output images in the terminal

March 5, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

imgcat displays images and gifs in your terminal emulator.

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Shotwell – photo manager for GNOME

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics

Shotwell is an open source image organizer designed to provide personal photo management for the GNOME 3 desktop environment.

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Image Viewers

Lightning Image Viewer – fast and lightweight desktop image viewer

February 18, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI, Reviews

Lightning Image Viewer (LIV) is billed as a desktop image (previewer) with some notable UX features.

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rsimg – terminal image viewer

February 18, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, TUI

rsimg is a terminal image viewer written in rust which displays images with Unicode characters.

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PixelTerm-C – terminal image viewer

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, TUI

PixelTerm-C is a high-performance terminal image browser written in C, based on the Chafa library.

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mcat – extended cat command

December 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Utilities

mcat is a terminal image, video and Markdown viewer. It’s written in the Rust programming language.

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Imagot – image viewer

November 21, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Imagot is a basic graphical image viewer. It’s sort of an alternative to xnview/irfanview. It’s built with Godot.

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PTUI – terminal-based image viewer

September 25, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, TUI

PTUI is a terminal-based image viewer written in Rust that provides a file browser interface with real-time image preview capabilities.

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SphereView – image viewer

July 10, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

SphereView is an image viewer for 360° equirectangular photospheres and panoramas. It’s written in the Rust language.

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Blackbody is a thermogram viewer

May 14, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

It allows viewing FLIR and TIFF images, giving control over the render settings.

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Tenmon is a FITS and XISF image viewer, converter and indexer

April 23, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Tenmon is a FITS/XISF image viewer with multithreaded image loading.

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FIM – universal image viewer

February 17, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

FIM (Fbi IMproved) is a highly customizable and scriptable image viewer. It aims to be a “Swiss Army knife” for viewing images.

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flxvwr – simple, cross-platform image viewer

February 7, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics

flxvwr is a simple, cross-platform image viewer which provides a minimal user interface, keyboard shortcuts, and smooth performance.

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Foto – simple image viewer

February 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

Foto is a simple image viewer. It simply shows an image either on a window or in the terminal. It is designed to be used in scripts.

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PixelViewer – cross-platform image viewer

February 6, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics

PixelViewer is a cross-platform image viewer supports reading raw Luminance/YUV/RGB/ARGB/Bayer pixels data from file and rendering it.

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vv – image viewer for sixel terminals

February 6, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews

vv is different from the vast majority of image viewers. It’s a small command-line program to view images from the terminal.

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Eye of MATE – simple graphics viewer for the MATE Desktop Environment

February 4, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics

Eye of MATE (or eom) is the official image viewer for the MATE Desktop Environment.

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QIV – Quick Image Viewer

February 4, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics

Quick Image Viewer (QIV) is a very small and pretty fast open source gdk/imlib image viewer.

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Mirage – fast and simple GTK+ image viewer

February 3, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics

Mirage is a fast and simple GTK+ image viewer which only depends on PyGTK.

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