VookiImageViewer is a cross-platform image viewer designed to provide a fast and efficient way to preview images across multiple operating systems, including Windows 11, macOS, and GNU/Linux. It emphasizes simplicity and performance while supporting a wide range of image formats.
Key Features:
Image Transformations: Includes flip (horizontal/vertical), rotation in 90° increments, zoom controls (in/out/original size/fit to window), and fullscreen mode.
Metadata Information: Displays detailed metadata about images for better understanding and organization.
Customization Options: Allows users to set custom background and image border colors and remember recent files.
Gesture Support: Supports Apple's high-definition trackpad gestures for a seamless user experience on macOS.
Cross-Platform Compatibility: Available on Windows, macOS, and GNU/Linux, ensuring consistent functionality across different operating systems.
Audience & Benefit:
Ideal for users who need a lightweight, fast image viewer without unnecessary features. It is particularly beneficial for those who work with images frequently, requiring quick access to previews and basic editing tools. The viewer’s cross-platform nature ensures that users can maintain the same workflow regardless of their operating system.
VookiImageViewer can be installed via winget on Windows, offering a straightforward setup process.
README
VookiImageViewer
A lightweight image viewer for a fast image preview. It has been developed to have the same viewer available for all major operating systems - Microsoft Windows 11, macOS and GNU/Linux.
The main goal is to have a free-of-charge cross-platform viewer with a simple design and minimum functions that are commonly used.
Transformations
Flip (horizontal, vertical).
Rotation (clockwise and counterclockwise in 90° steps).
🗒 If you are a native speaker of the non-US-English language and would like to help localize this application, please, see this guideline on how to join the localization team.
Supported image formats cover the very common formats as well as the rare ones. The viewer does not intentionally demosaic the RAW images, but only displays the embedded thumbnail.
FORMAT
DESCRIPTION
ANI
Windows Animated Cursor
GIF
Graphic Interchange Format
JPG
Joint Photographic Experts Group
JXL
JPEG XL
PNG
Portable Network Graphics
PBM
Portable Bitmap
PFM
Portable FloatMap Image
PGM
Portable Graymap
PPM
Portable Pixmap
PXR
Pixar Image Computer
QOI
Quite OK Image Format
XBM
X11 Bitmap
XPM
X11 Pixmap
SCT
Scitex Continuous Tone Format
SVG
Scalable Vector Graphics
BMP
Windows Bitmap
XCF
Gimp
PSD
Photoshop Documents
RAS
Sun Raster
PCX
Personal Computer Exchange
RGB, RGBA, SGI, BW
SGI Images
PIC
Softimage
TGA
Targa
TIFF
Tagged Image File Format
ARW
Sony Alpha Raw [Inner thumbnail only]
CR2
Canon Raw Version 2 [Inner thumbnail only]
DNG
Digital Negative [Inner thumbnail only]
ERF
Epson RAW File [Inner thumbnail only]
MOS
Leaf Raw Image File [Inner thumbnail only]
MRW
Konica Minolta RAW [Inner thumbnail only]
NEF
Nikon Raw Image File [Inner thumbnail only]
ORF
Olympus Raw Image File [Inner thumbnail only]
PEF
Pentax Raw Image File [Inner thumbnail only]
RAF
Fuji Raw Image File [Inner thumbnail only]
RW2
Panasonic RAW Image File [Inner thumbnail only]
SRW
Samsung RAW Image File [Inner thumbnail only]
X3F
SIGMA X3F Camera RAW File [Inner thumbnail only]
[macOS/Windows only] HEIC
High-Efficiency Image File Format
All operations have assigned shortcuts and all of them can be user re-assigned except the one which is used for Preferences on macOS.
macOS
Windows
GNU/Linux
OPERATION
⌥c
ALT+c
ALT+c
Clear recent file
q
q
q
Quit application
⌘,
p
p
Preferences
f
f
f
Show image in fullscreen mode
,
,
,
Rotate left
.
.
.
Rotate right
h
h
h
Flip horizontally
v
v
v
Flip vertically
+
+
+
Zoom in
-
-
-
Zoom out
*
*
*
Zoom reset
w
w
w
Fit to window
[
[
[
Previous image
]
]
]
Next image
i
i
i
Scroll up
k
k
k
Scroll down
j
j
j
Scroll left
l
l
l
Scroll right
s
s
s
Toggle statusbar
n
n
n
Toggle filesystem navigation
t
t
t
Toggle toolbar
e
e
e
Toggle metadata information
F1
F1
F1
About application
none
none
none
About components
none
none
none
About Qt
none
none
none
About supported formats
All code developed during this project is GPLv3 licensed. Images as well as the 3rd-party components have their own licenses, see proper LICENSE files in a GitHub Source Tree.
Releases
Prebuilt binaries for Windows 11, Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, and macOS, as well as sources, are available here..
amd64 / x64
arm64 / aarch 64
macOS
✅
✅
GNU/Linux
✅
✅
Windows 11
✅
✅
Mac users can install the VookiImageViewer by the Homebrew.
brew tap vookimedlo/homebrew-vookiimageviewer
brew install --cask vookiimageviewer-macos
Windows users can install the VookiImageViewer by the Microsoft WinGet tool or by the application installer.
winget install --id MichalDuda.VookiImageViewer
Debian Trixie users can install the VookiImageViewer from the APT repository hosted by the cloudsmith.io for free.
All binaries could be built easily. For your convenience, GitHub's Actions are used to continuously check if the current source code is buildable on the Linux and macOS.
