Compare the Top Photo Viewers as of November 2025

What are Photo Viewers?

Photo viewers are software applications designed to allow users to view and browse image files in various formats, such as JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, and BMP. These tools typically offer basic features like zooming, rotating, and panning, as well as support for viewing image metadata. Advanced photo viewers may include additional functionalities like slideshow creation, image editing tools, file organization, and batch processing. They are used for personal and professional purposes to manage and display digital images on computers or mobile devices, providing a user-friendly way to interact with visual content. Compare and read user reviews of the best Photo Viewers currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Handy Viewer

    Handy Viewer

    Handy Software

    Handy Viewer provides an all-in-one solution for photo viewing and editing. Handy Viewer boasts a user-friendly interface that offers an effortless experience right from the start. All required plug-ins and codecs are included, eliminating the need for cumbersome downloads. Navigating through folders and finding specific images is a breeze thanks to hotkey support and three different viewing modes you can choose from. One standout feature of Handy Viewer is its extensive format compatibility. Whether it's JPEG, TIFF, PNG, or even the latest HEIC image format, Handy Viewer will open and display nearly any image file format. Moreover, Handy Viewer shines when it comes to video playback as well. In total, more than 150 formats are supported. Photo editing and ability to apply effects is another important feature of this program. Handy Viewer allows you to resize, crop and rotate your images. The brightness, contrast, saturation, gamma can be configured as well.
    Starting Price: $0
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    Adobe Bridge
    Adobe Bridge is a powerful creative asset manager that lets you preview, organize, edit, and publish multiple creative assets quickly and easily. Edit metadata, add keywords, labels, and ratings to assets. Organize assets using collections, and find assets using powerful filters and advanced metadata search features. Collaborate with Creative Cloud Libraries and publish to Adobe Stock right from Bridge. We’re adding new features to Bridge all the time, and Creative Cloud members get them as soon as we release them. Visually manage your Adobe Substance 3D materials in Bridge. Launch multiple videos for editing in Adobe Premiere Pro or transcoding in Adobe Media Encoder. Visualize all your creative assets (including Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, After Effects, and Substance 3D files) with thumbnails and rich previews. Import your digital photos using the Photo Downloader, which lets you rename files or convert to DNG during import.
    Starting Price: $9.99 per month
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    Aftershoot

    Aftershoot

    Aftershoot

    As photographers and creatives ourselves, we believe that we should be able to spend our time on things that matter the most! Be it enjoying some time off with our loved ones or working on growing our business. That said, our users are the primary driving force behind Aftershoot and we won’t be where we are if it wasn’t for the continuous feedback and supported that we received from you at each and every step! Aftershoot can automatically cull your images by detecting unwanted blinks, camera shakes, burst shots/ duplicates, and much more. It also selects the best shot from a series of similar images, so that you don’t have to sift through!
    Starting Price: $9.99 per month
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    Image Viewer Ultimate
    Image Viewer Ultimate is a great application to view/run slideshows of your images/photos and it is also having batch resize and batch watermark features. Fit to actual size, zoom in, zoom out, full-screen mode, and play images as a slide show on Windows. Set slideshow time, setting available through application preferences. Supports retina display. Can export images as JPEG, PNG, TIFF, JIF, BMP. Batch conversion to the desired format as JPEG, PNG, TIFF, JIF, or BMP. Batch watermark to desired images. Save images in the desired size.
    Starting Price: $9.99 one-time payment
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    Picview

    Picview

    Chitaner

    Picview is an image viewer for macOS with a nice minimal modern user interface. Picview works great with JPEG, HEIC, PSD, RAW, WEBP, PNG, GIF, and many other formats. Provides basic image processing, including flip and rotate, EXIF, and other information. Supports keyboard shortcuts and trackpad gestures. The most important, Picview like Windows' default picture viewer — Photos, where zoom in and out with the mouse wheel and switch between images with arrow keys and/or with on-screen buttons.
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