document updated 16 years ago, on Jan 2, 2008
Image viewers that work okay on Windows:
- ACDSee — latest versions have gotten bloated. Also, I need to use this on so many different machines, and it's really not worth spending enough money to register it on every machine I might use it on.
- Irfanview — seems good, but has a bug that makes it crash constantly on multi-core machines, which makes it unusable for me
- imgv
- Picasa (haven't tried it yet)
- FastStone Image Viewer (haven't tried it yet)
- XnView
- ThumbsPlus
- Cornice (haven't tried it yet)
- mozImage (haven't tried yet, but looks very hackable!)
nice features
- easy one-handed browsing -- often easiest to just use the scroll-wheel (capable of this: acdsee, irfanview)
- be able to include ALL images (including those in subdirectories) in a list, that's then randomized (capable of this: imgv)
- capable of using something beyond normal folder organization (while folders are simple and elegant, it's simply not possible to classify one image as multiple categories without making multiple copies of it)
See also