XnView for Windows

File Details
File Size	5.5 MB
License	Freeware
Operating System	Windows (All)
Date Added	February 1, 2023
Total Downloads	152,485
Publisher	Pierre-e Gougelet
Homepage	XnView

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roj reviewed v2.20 on Mar 23, 2014

Blows away all comers while still retaining free-ness.

FIVE stars.

fortakrafa reviewed v2.20 on Mar 20, 2014

Excellent!

OAKsider reviewed v2.05 on Nov 11, 2013

XnView is pretty incredible. I first tried out the "lite" (portable) version, and really appreciated all of its customization options, from colors to keyboard shortcuts. The interface is not bad, and also highly customizable (from super detailed to clean and neat). I enjoy and trust it so much that it I have now--finally--replaced my default photo viewer (Windows Live Photo Gallery). Oh, and it's freeware (with donations appreciated). Highly recommended.

Karol Mily reviewed v2.05 on Sep 12, 2013

Very useful for me.

After extra effort to setup full or half screen viewer - simply perfect.

roj reviewed v2.04 on Jul 19, 2013

I wanted to wean myself off of commercial software and P{aint Shop Pro with its integrated file manager was what I had been using. I hate Corel products - buggy junk with insidious nagware even in the paid versions - so the GIMP and Xnview became my mainstays. The combination is far superior to the Corel product.

Excellent image management tool.

FIVE stars.

rip_pit reviewed v2.00 on Apr 9, 2013

simply the best !

uberfly reviewed v1.99.6 on Dec 23, 2012

Hands down the best and always updated...

SL600 reviewed v1.99.6 on Dec 19, 2012

When will it display thumbnails of PDFs like PaperPort????

SineWave reviewed v1.99.1 on Sep 6, 2012

Simple to use, reliable, full of useful tools for all your picture editing needs, and it reads every image format ever devised. ;) No other viewer does that. I can even view pictures from Atari or Commodore... Incredible program. It's not a bad file browser, too. Small and compact, portable, too. I cannot praise it enough. However, just one thing always bothers me with XNView: it feels slow. I mean especially filters and zoom in-out if filtering is enabled. Why not using hardware acceleration for that, and a little bit more efficient code. That would make me give it ten stars. :) So because the code feels a bit slow, just five stars. :) Thank you for a great program. I've been using it for like 10 years or so. [after ACDSee that became too bloated for me]

Karol Mily reviewed v1.99 on Jun 5, 2012

Nice and usefull.

I am using a lot - conversion functions.

nilst2006 reviewed v1.98.7 on Mar 1, 2012

Overrated junkware....

Sorb reviewed v1.98.7 on Feb 29, 2012

Yesterday they released v1.98.6 and today we have v1.98.7. This is what happened apparently:

XnView v1.98.7 (LIBFORMAT v6.05) 27/02/2012:
Fixed:
* APNG crash - http://newsgroup.xnview....ic.php?f=36&t=25075

egg83 reviewed v1.98.6 on Feb 27, 2012

Awesome software, like ACDSEE from way back, but without the bloat. 5 stars the way.

uzi reviewed v1.98.5 on Dec 19, 2011

A superb viewer. I have checked a few including Irfanview and while both are excellent I prefer XNView.

Many of the "problems" that cause people to lower their grades for this program, can easily be solved by changing the configuration. One of XNViews strongest sides is its flexible and powerful configuration, but one has to invest some time choosing the ones that match you preferences.

stisev reviewed v1.98.2 on Aug 20, 2011

Excellent pic viewer. Probably the best with irfanview.

Like another user said below, it could use a speed boost dealing with RAW + CR2 (canon raw) formats.

irfanview handles them so much faster!

Blaxima reviewed v1.98 on May 28, 2011

I really do love XnView for it's power, simplicity and speed BUT, it's speed is reduced to a stand still when dealing with RAW images.

I'm also still holding my breath for better keyboard/wheel shortcut options

escasilla17 reviewed v1.98 Beta 2 on Apr 8, 2011

I've also downloaded XnView @ spanish.200sharewarelinks.com and I have no problems so far ;)

Hallway reviewed v1.97.8 on Sep 21, 2010

I really like it BUT there is 1 really annoying thing about it, it uses regular keys as function shortcuts, so you can not click a starting key to jump to the first filename beginning with it, really clumsy IMHO.

anomoly reviewed v1.97.8 on Sep 20, 2010

If you use the built-in batch processing tool you will find it is not only the easiest to use but also the very best.

SteveJohnSteele reviewed v1.97.7 on Sep 7, 2010

Very good

BUT...
I'd like to see better support for vector formats, AI, EPS, CorelDraw (drawings) etc
Ideally I'd like to see complete integration into the windows filer
... but that is probably not the aim of this program.

robmanic44 reviewed v1.97.6 on Jun 18, 2010

Amazing image software, but it can be intimidating for first time users. For most users I would recommend Irfanview. That doesn't alter the fact that this is very powerful software. If you're a experienced user, go for it.

Blaxima reviewed v1.97.6 on Jun 17, 2010

1.97.6 Changelog
Fixed:
* Folder tree problem

Sure I can use the wheel but as I said, I want to use the dedicated back button seeing as every other app recognizes it. The keyboard shortcuts need to have more options

dhry reviewed v1.97.5 on Jun 12, 2010

Still the absolute best graphics viewer. And it supports back and forward with the mouse - just that it uses the wheel rather than the buttons. Far better AFAIC, especially if you have a Logitech Nano or other mouse with the option for freespin wheel mode.

Blaxima reviewed v1.97.5 on Jun 11, 2010

1.97.5 Changelog

Added:
* PFM format read support
* TXC format read support
* Clean metadata for TIFF files
* RIOT addon
* NConvert: -no_auto_ext

Changed:
* 'Show mask' kept

Fixed:
* EXIF GPS
* Tagged files in statusbar
* Print picture with EXIF orientation
* Security error in MBM code
* CAM QV7000
* MBM
* Slow treeview (problem with ZIP files) on Vista/7
* Ctrl+F2 to edit timestamp
* RAW in slideshow
* ICNS
* Sort by folder
* Export & extension
* Batch convert/Rotate
* Convert into
* -capture you can use all time variable from http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clib ... /strftime/
(-capture=desktop,file-%Y-%B-##.jpg)
* Edit IPTC on TIFF file
* Thumbnail for mpeg file
* RAW
----------------------------------------------------

XnView is a very good free alternative but it lacks some little touches that hold it back. For instance, every other image viewer responds to clicking dedicated back buttons on a mouse and the options in general for keyboard and mouse shortcuts are too few

Virtual_ManPL reviewed v1.97.4 on May 8, 2010

5/5

but still waiting for Unicode support ;p

lehenryjr reviewed v1.97.4 on May 4, 2010

I previously used Paperport, from Nuance, and the problem with Paperport was the MAX format; it drove me crazy. Eventually, I converted all my MAX files to PDF or JPG and now I use XnView. It even has the batch scanning with ADF. Works wonderful for me...

Recommended.

LHenryJr.
www.lehsys.com

gawd21 reviewed v1.97.3 on Apr 26, 2010

After looking trough and trying so many other programs, this is the only one that I have found that would do what I wanted! It allows me to just direct it to a folder and it will run the slideshow without having to select a million picture. None of the others would let me just select a folder. They all wanted you to add each photo, and well I am not spending hours to just make a slideshow.

nilst2006 reviewed v1.97.3 on Apr 24, 2010

I am having trouble with this program, it changes icons for pics even if it is not set to open some files. I get this ugly XnView icon. Have tried many different things (delete filetypes and then re-add them after a reboot, registryhacks and so on to revert back to the default icons again, but the only way is to uninstall XnView, reboot computer and set the associations for each file i want to have back to default icon and association again. Else i like this program, but it is blacklisted on my computers until there will be an easier way to restore icons and associations. Therefor i give it a 2.

boelectronic reviewed v1.97.2 on Mar 1, 2010

a very nice program, I really like it, but I download the "Complete version" from their site to install this with "ShellEx" to preview and convert files with just a right click in windows!

some guy reviewed v1.97.2 on Mar 1, 2010

very impressive, like the option to capture screen, just be came my default image viewer. Sorry Infran view but I'm gonna have to let you go

DoHickey reviewed v1.97.1 on Feb 26, 2010

This is the best & knocked Picasa out of the water.

Qlib reviewed v1.97 on Dec 5, 2009

OK.. I have used XNView for a while and really liked it but I am dissappointed that the 64bit explorer extensions STILL just crashes whenever triggered.. and if I cant integrate it into my explorer I might as well not use it as that is what is useful...

patrick2010 reviewed v1.97 on Dec 3, 2009

@Balderstrom: You have Nconvert as batch processing, better than irfanview...

Balderstrom reviewed v1.97 on Dec 3, 2009

@ TGB72
I really think it depends on what you are using XnView | IrfanView for. IrfanView's line-command (batch-script processing) can't be beat as far as I know.
IrfanView : Viewer, Batch Processing, Minimal Editing, Thumb/Html.
XnView: Image Manager, Viewer, Complex Interface.

I find I still use IrfanView more often for quick access to files and manipulation of said files.

As far as Image Management is concerned, I prefer PicaJet -- hopefully they'll actually release v3 at some point.

For ease of use, Vista/Win7's explorer does most of what a basic user would need

TGB72 reviewed v1.97 on Dec 1, 2009

Best image viewer, the only competitor is IrfanView, and XnView is a step ahead (the use of tabs is an advantage). Regarding to Faststone, is nice and fancy but it lacks of many essential features like batch filtering and adjusting during conversion and jpeg lossless transformation (including cropping). XnView is the king for the moment.

Keverin reviewed v1.97 on Dec 1, 2009

I switched from FastStone (which has indeed a lot more features) to XnView because XnView is lightning fast at showing images, and that is the n°1 I want from an image viewer.

Other than that, perhaps the config menu could have some better layout, and some better wordings and pop-over help.

dhry reviewed v1.97 on Nov 30, 2009

This continues to be the best free graphics viewer available for Windows. Lightning-fast startup time, doesn't force you to use skins, absolutely no contest with Faststone. Irfan comes close but loses in the UI and graphic display speed departments. I run both this and Picasa and will probably continue to do so until XNView supports face recognition *8-)

And my version of ACDsee 3.1 expired so many years ago that I've forgotten whether it's better or not.

idodialog reviewed v1.97 Beta 4 on Nov 25, 2009

Improved on the last version - but I still find FastStone better laid out and like its features better.
Xn allows for filters and though I haven't tried it has HTML pages but apart from that they have similar powers.
But where Xn takes a couple of steps to get to anything - FastStone has it's tools more accessible.

Virtual_ManPL reviewed v1.97 Beta 3 on Nov 15, 2009

ahhh, finally, no crashes in Beta 3 :)

halc reviewed v1.97 Beta 2 on Nov 12, 2009

Fast and full featured, but buggy and crashes quite a lot. As such, close, but no cigar.

Virtual_ManPL reviewed v1.97 Beta 2 on Nov 11, 2009

4,5/5 - because of bug introducing in beta ;p
it closing XV when you try to open some files or even browsing them xD

BetaBuddy reviewed v1.97 Beta 2 on Nov 8, 2009

Superb software. Thank you!

egg83 reviewed v1.97 Beta 1 on Nov 3, 2009

Stopped purchasing Acdsee in favor of this program. Xnview is the best graphics program out there.

FailedCRC reviewed v1.96.5 on Sep 17, 2009

Huzzah, annoying JPEG crash bug fixed (one I submitted and got a very prompt response about from the author).

Juhandra reviewed v1.96.2 on Aug 28, 2009

preferred FastStone Image Viewer until I viewed large 5000pix width images, It was slow as a snail. XnView is SOOOOOO much faster, Now my absolute nr.1 !

Virtual_ManPL reviewed v1.96.2 on Jul 13, 2009

Awesome image browser !!!

dhry reviewed v1.96.2 on Jul 3, 2009

Bobad is on crack. 37mb? As anomoly said, the exe for XNView is under 4Mb. I just started up both XNView 1.96.2 and Faststone Viewer 3.9. Memory usage as follows:

XNView: 15,328k working memory, 79,228k virtual.
Faststone: 25,312k working, 88,036k virtual.

Not only is XNView faster and smaller (the minimal version's zipfile is just over 3Mb), it uses LESS system resources and it DOESN'T force you to use crapburger skins (which is why FS uses so much RAM and why it's interface is so sluggish). SNORT! I repeat: this is STILL the best freeware picture viewer and manipulator.

anomoly reviewed v1.96.2 on Jul 2, 2009

There are several zip versions on their website. If you compress the exe in the standard version, the folder is only 6.45 MB. Whereas my installed folder is 696 MB. I have too many pictures.
The exe by itself, zip or installed, is 3.98 MB, not 1.5.

steve364 reviewed v1.96.2 on Jul 2, 2009

I have used this for years. I prefer the layout over other programs. Also if you think that it is too big for a pen drive, then all you need to have is xnview.exe set up as a portable. It is then only about 1.5Mb. By doing this you loose some of the extras that get installed with a full installation.

Edit:
@ anomally
It is about 1.5Mb if you use UPX to compress it. If you don't know what UPX is then you would not be using it anyway & you would be stuck with the original bigger file size.

bobad reviewed v1.96.2 on Jul 2, 2009

XnView is not a bad product. It does most of the things a picture viewer needs to do. However, the configuration is awkward, and requires a lot of tweaking to make it behave as I want it to . Another thing is, it's HUGE. Whereas FastStone is 5MB and IrfanView about the same, XnView is 37MB! That'll put the bite on your USB flash drive! I still recommend the program. It has good shell extension options, filters, and a choice to use an IN I file. But why use a huge "4" when you could be using a more powerful yet small, quick, tidy "5" in FastStone?

dhry reviewed v1.96.1 on Jun 26, 2009

Still the best freeware picture viewer/manipulator. Better than Faststone, better than Irfanview, better than Wildbit. Thumbnails work perfectly fine for me, and have done so on multiple computers for multiple years.

Blaxima reviewed v1.96.1 on Jun 9, 2009

This is good but frustrating and just because it's free that doesn't make it better than ACDSee Photo Manager v11 as some might have you believe. I too have the problem with thumbnails not displaying what I want them to. No matter what I put in the list all that shows are the file names. Only the tool tips will display what I say.

I find I use Faststone MaxView v2.1(still free) for quick viewing of images from explorer and Acdsee for browsing because of the lack of info in the damn thumbnail labels in xnview. I really wish this would be fixed because it is very quick on start up and I prefer it to the other free viewers for more than just quick views.

3.5*

cricri_pingouin reviewed v1.96.1 on May 13, 2009

An excellent piece of work, I can't find anything bad to say. Works well, responsive, well presented, and free. Thanks Pierre, keep it up!

roj reviewed v1.96.1 on May 13, 2009

LOVE this.

FIVE stars.

Virtual_ManPL reviewed v1.96 on May 2, 2009

Awesome picture viewer !!!
Support many extensions and formats... Superior to other programs in this... ;)

roymccoy reviewed v1.96 on Feb 26, 2009

anomoly: It DOES display width x height in thumbnail view if you do this: Go to Options, Thumbnails, Thumbnails label, scroll down to Custom, write Width x Height in the field then add to list.

With this custom function, you can tailor made excactly what info you'd like to see in the preferred type of browser view.

And I just don't understand how people can say XnView is slow!?
It's as fast as any other image viewing program, depending on individual settings.
If settings is set to store the thumbnails (from pics and/ or video) in the database, EVERY program needs time to this when opening new files.
After that it opens immediately, even folders having 1000's of pics...

spacemarine reviewed v1.96 on Feb 25, 2009

Well Mr. Strider, no hard feelings ;), but I think
you are suffering from a lack of sensible judgement ;)
Rating XnView with two stars is just ridiculous.

Of course whether this is the one and only greatest image viewer
on earth might be subject to debate (for me it is), as everyone's preferences
are diffrent. But even though there are other great image viewers out there
this is definitely 5 star software.

Young Strider reviewed v1.96 on Feb 24, 2009

I find this a real average image viewer, even with the worst of the bunch.
For me, the top feature of an Image Viewer is SPEED, and that's why I prefer Faststone Image Viewer.

anomoly reviewed v1.96 Beta 4 on Feb 10, 2009

For whatever reason it displays this info correctly now without me having to do anything. TG (view display as-must have missed that one)
Thanks. Batch conversion is quite nice too.
Anychance of allowing the resizing of xnview's fonts. Probably the wrong forum.

anomoly reviewed v1.96 Beta 3 on Jan 28, 2009

I do prefer viewing any pictures with this program. But for the life of me it will NOT simply display widthxheight in browser view in the preferred thumbnail format.
The multiplatform version will but it seems almost crippled.
THIS is why fastone still remains on my pc. I can open a folder of files in a browser type view (of thumbnails) and instantly see which pics to resize. WTF is wrong with xnview it will not give me that info without destroying the thumbnail view.
Fix that s*** and I'll happily remove fastone. Till that time fastone is a much better program for batch conversion. NO, I don't want to convert the whole ****ing folder just the pics I choose based on their size. Fug it, I'll install irfanview instead.

SueAmma reviewed v1.96 Beta 2 on Jan 18, 2009

ACDSee 8 is my favored image viewer, with XnView running a close second. I have also configured IrfanView to replace the Windows XP picture viewer. I couldn't be without either of the programs.

cricri_pingouin reviewed v1.96 Beta 2 on Jan 16, 2009

By far my favourite image viewer. I prefer it over Faststone without a thought (last time I checked, XnView was faster, snappier, and I cannot stand how FastStone enforces their skin over the standard Windows look that I carefully selected and am happy with). I do not personally like IrfanView (the interface didn't seem to mature since the Windows 16bits days), and if I'm going to use ACDsee, I'll want to use the classic version, and in which case I'd rather use the free XnView which gives ACDSee classic a run for its money.

"Free, more customizable, better and vastly more powerful editing tools, better integration into the windows platform."

XnView is also free, is as customisable (if you bother trying), "better" is not very descriptive, if you want powerful editing tools you can use photoshop filters (like the bundled Harry's filters), and I fail to understand what "better integration in the OS" means. If this is referring to files associations, than I can't see how a software can be better than another, thus I assume that I misunderstand what that means as well.

poisonu reviewed v1.95.4 on Nov 19, 2008

My favourite is IrfanView (have been using it since sometime in the mid 1990's).....
But XnView is available for almost all the OSs I need (it has good cross platform support)....
So both are Very Good....

anomoly reviewed v1.95.3 on Nov 16, 2008

Less is more. Fsviewer IS bloated but has some nice touches & is perfectly portable as well.

PagingDrLeoMarvin reviewed v1.95.3 on Nov 11, 2008

Always a pleasure to use.

ninjeratu reviewed v1.95.3 on Nov 6, 2008

Best free image viewer out there.

Comparing this with FastStone is ridiculous.
The "reviewer" below is completely clueless and is obviously working for FastStone or gets paid to write that FUD.
XnView is also completely free and has a normal UI, in stark contrast to FastStones horrible, customized, bloated and non-standard, "theme"-driven user-interface. No installation is required, unless you want to. Most formats supported. Builtin 8BF support (Photoshop Plugins).

Ever used ACDSee? This is the freeware version of that. Only a lot faster and less bloated.

idodialog reviewed v1.95.3 on Nov 6, 2008

I check out most new versions of this good program - then I uninstall and go back to an excellent program - FastStone Viewer. Free, more customizable, better and vastly more powerful editing tools, better integration into the windows platform.
XnView ends up feeling like an amateur job!

rzr42 reviewed v1.95.3 on Nov 5, 2008

Best viewer out there, and its free. Very fast and plenty of options. Only problem for me is that setting file associations doesn't work for me (vista64), so I had to do it manually.

Bull reviewed v1.95.3 on Nov 5, 2008

Nice!

Only FastStone Image Viewer is 1000 faster and better.

Jarda72 reviewed v1.95.2 on Oct 26, 2008

Sweet! Simply the *BEST* image viewer worldwide. Can not wait for XnViewMP final! :)

Ciolouse reviewed v1.95.2 on Oct 24, 2008

XnView v1.95.2 (LIBFORMAT v5.06) 23/10/2008:

Fixed:
* Nikon makernotes - http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?p=67629
* NT problem - http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?t=16128
* Slow browsing, problem between XnView DB & SQLITE 3.6.4

boaz reviewed v1.95 on Oct 15, 2008

For the money (free), this is an excellent graphics viewer & enhancer. I install this as the default graphics file viewer, on all of the PC's that I build & maintain.

stisev reviewed v1.95 RC1 on Oct 14, 2008

"Agreed. I have nothing but praise for this app but I have noticed that on occasion, it will crash when dealing with a folder containing a high number of images"

Same problem here!

Stingray57 reviewed v1.95 RC1 on Oct 4, 2008

I recently was positioned to staying with Nuance Paperport or working with something else. I found XNVIEW and it does everything I need it to do.

Bottom line Paperpart is $199 XNView is Free.
Obvious choice and the right one.

Thanks to the authors.

roj reviewed v1.95 RC1 on Oct 3, 2008

"XnView's performance also suffers a bit when dealing with very large collections of images."

Agreed. I have nothing but praise for this app but I have noticed that on occasion, it will crash when dealing with a folder containing a high number of images. This issue manifests itself if you start to view files while the program is still updating the properties list for the folder - it's as if the program can't keep up. It does not happen regularly but this bug has persisted through at least five revisions now.

In the grand sceheme of things though, I find XnView indispensible and MUCH better than its competition across the board.

FIVE stars.

Nymz reviewed v1.95 Beta 3 on Oct 1, 2008

Best image viewer.

Nequam reviewed v1.95 Beta 3 on Sep 30, 2008

Definitely a great application for anyone seeking an efficient freeware viewer with an excellent UI.

XnView unfortunately doesn't support Unicode, which is a huge deal-breaker for anyone such as myself who has many non-english file and folder names.

XnView's performance also suffers a bit when dealing with very large collections of images.

If the above aren't concerns for you, you'd be remiss to give XnView a try.

spacemarine reviewed v1.95 Beta 3 on Sep 30, 2008

The best image viewer on the planet,
and it's free :) What more can you ask
for ?

roj reviewed v1.94.2 on Aug 1, 2008

Love this thing.

Mainstay application for me.

Indispensible.

Good commitment to quality.

Not bloated.

Free.

Kicks a** over all comers, including ACDSee and Irfanview (the application that lost its way).

FIVE stars.

mytake4this reviewed v1.94.1 on Jul 27, 2008

Almost a 5 star, but it did today, what it has done in the past = crash. Working with a lot of photos to get up on Flickr, it suddenly simply over loaded and crashed. I went back to using FastStone for viewing and doing editing. For just a few photos, or to do a lot of work on just one, I will still use XNview. Good app. other than the occasional crash.

spacemarine reviewed v1.94 on Jul 23, 2008

Really the greatest image viewer on
earth. 5/5 Stars. Thanks Pierre :)

I only wish that the options dialogue would
be less cluttered...

Blaxima reviewed v1.94 on Jul 22, 2008

Lets not get carried away. This is definately better (imo) then irfanview but acdsee is still a much more powerful viewer/editor

darthbeads reviewed v1.94 on Jul 21, 2008

Hyperbole aside (like zridling's infantile confessions of "love"), XnView really is a first-class piece of software.

egg83 reviewed v1.94 RC1 on Jul 15, 2008

Best graphic viewer on the planet, paid or no. To Pierre: Thank You for a great program!

guti reviewed v1.94 Beta 2 on Jun 24, 2008

darkpepe reviewed v1.94 Beta 1 on Jun 19, 2008

Changelog? Awesome!

zridling reviewed v1.94 Beta 1 on Jun 19, 2008

Isn't XnView effectively perfected by now? Nothing but love.

roj reviewed v1.93.6 on May 1, 2008

Excellence.

FIVE stars.

dvferret reviewed v1.93.6 Beta 2 on Apr 21, 2008

This is a nice piece of freeware.

rotjong reviewed v1.93.6 Beta 2 on Apr 21, 2008

Nice freeware and another nice update. This is a great freeware product.

Many products when released as a beta don't offer an installer but it isn't necessary. Also, most people who use beta versions are more experienced. Decompressing an archive to the correct folder is not rocket science. If it is too complicated then, honestly, a person shouldn't be using a beta version. Making the author spend extra time to create an installer for a beta is somewhat ridiculous.

darkpepe reviewed v1.93.6 Beta 1 on Apr 17, 2008

Does a lot of editing considering it's just a picture viewer. Impressive!

DoHickey reviewed v1.93.6 Beta 1 on Apr 16, 2008

The reason for the 2 rating is because this zip has no install file. I like XnView and have the last installable version, but hey guys, make it possible to install the beta. Not everyone can figure out how to use this or even find it after it unpacks. I have friends that would open up Windows explorer and run in terror just from seeing how much stuff is on the machine.
(PS) No install file present in this package. So the later comment on my comment is unfounded. I do know how to unpack a zip file and all that. XnView just needs to make an install file & put it in the zip package. So shut up.

the artist reviewed v1.93.6 Beta 1 on Apr 16, 2008

This program needs a serious re-elaboration of it's options. Too cluttered. Adopt some standard behaviours and simplify. Also, choose a default interface with a professional looking icons set.

comeoffit reviewed v1.93.4 on Apr 2, 2008

Everything related to ... editing? All I see to that end is a crappy, limited "Paint" plugin.

roymccoy reviewed v1.93.4 on Mar 28, 2008

This is an ingenious program - and If you're not already - you'll be addicted to it!
With everything related to viewing/ editing pictures - XnView completes/ for-fills the experience in every way possible!

Link to homepage:
http://www.xnview.com/

Link to what's new in this update (1.93.4):
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/pierre.g/xnview/etonhistory.html

dhry reviewed v1.93.4 on Mar 28, 2008

Awesome viewer. But supporting multiple formats isn't really a big deal. Nobody gives a toss about anything except JPG, GIF and PNG, right?

Qlib reviewed v1.93.4 on Mar 27, 2008

an update a day keeps the buggies away.. or something.. ok so there may in theory be one or two other viewers that are a billionth of a fraction of a nanosecond faster in extreme cases but seriously .. in image formats supported and other features, NOTHING!!!.. beats XnView.... not even those that have ugly blue skins and are a billionth of a fraction of a nanosecond faster in extreme cases..

hurzx reviewed v1.93.4 on Mar 27, 2008

One version per day that's a lot...

De Julien reviewed v1.93.2 on Mar 27, 2008

Still slower than Faststone Image Viewer, but it nice freeware viewer.

hurzx reviewed v1.93.2 on Mar 26, 2008

Problem in version numbering. It's already 1.93.3 on their site.

Diam0nd reviewed v1.93.2 on Mar 26, 2008

Great. But still, IrfanView is better as a viewer and ExifPro is THE best for photographers.

Cris3 reviewed v1.93 on Mar 13, 2008

XnView works with formats that are not supported by Photoshop and is able to reformat images so that Photoshop CS3 can be used to edit them.

Both ACDsee and EXIF Pro have to be purchased.
Photographers don't need a viewer, but the formatting functions of XnView is quite useful.

To edit EXIF data use the free program PhotoMe at this website:
http://www.photome.de/home_en.html

DoHickey reviewed v1.93 Beta 3 on Mar 12, 2008

The reason I listed ACDsee 5.1 and not the newer versions is because I didn't like the newer versions of that program. Those later versions took a toll on my processor and memory. I got tired of restarting my computer so many times after doing a lot of editing and viewing mpeg files.
I've not had any problems with XnView at all & it's not taking as much processor & memory to use XnView. I can sit for hours and use the program for all kinds of photo & mpeg tasks without problems of any kind.

dhry reviewed v1.93 Beta 3 on Mar 11, 2008

Great program. BTW, last I checked, ACDSee was WELL past version 5.1.

Diam0nd reviewed v1.93 Beta 2 on Mar 4, 2008

It's good, but not for using it as your viewer, imho. In that respect best is IrfanView, simply because its WAY faster. And for photographers best option is ExifPro.

DoHickey reviewed v1.93 Beta 1 on Feb 29, 2008

This is a very nice program, on my system it runs faster than ACDsee 5.1 does. The only problem I have with the Beta 1.93 is that it's a zip file & has no install.
I unzipped it with WinZip and it made a folder under my unzipped folder & unpacked it. The files in that folder are the program itself and no install file is present.
The toolbar could have an easier selection, it's not easy to find the editor.

dhry reviewed v1.93 Beta 1 on Feb 27, 2008

Couldn't care less about the number of formats it supports - nobody uses anything except JPG, PNG and GIF. But this program is still damn good - does a lot of stuff and has been around for ages (ie very stable). And it isn't bloatware either.

Mystiqq reviewed v1.92.1 on Feb 6, 2008

Best keeps getting better.

DeadFly reviewed v1.92.1 on Jan 31, 2008

What I love about it is the huge number of formats it supports. There's a plugin pack on the website ( http://download2.xnview.com/XnView-win-plugins.exe ) that adds support for everything under the sun.

roj reviewed v1.92.1 on Jan 29, 2008

love this and find it indispensible for graphics management. lighter and MUCH faster than acdsee, more intuitive and feature rich than irfanview. good attention to detail and qa. interface designed by intelligent designers for intelligent users unlike the retroactive abortion known as the gimp.

highly recommended.

FIVE stars.

terracesider reviewed v1.92 on Jan 23, 2008

A simple, intuitive layout. No need to plough through reams of help files to get started. Brilliant. The best I've tried.

The forum has some French labels but the majority of thread titles and text is in English.

I give it 5 only because there is no 6.

lhdal reviewed v1.92 on Jan 9, 2008

Can't display multiple page icons propery in thumbnail view. (Actually those are icons with several formats embedded in a single icon)

Instead it shows the lowest quality icon in the icon file and even that is only black&white.

For example ACDSee shows the best format in an icon file as the thumbnail.

Also whenever I try to signup to the forum I failed. Btw forum language is French.

anonymouscowturd reviewed v1.92 on Dec 20, 2007

Good, but the the functionality to make it portable doesn't work properly. It is able to store the settings in the applications folder but setting it to store the DB etc somewhere other than default doesn't seem to work at all. Just ignores it.

roj reviewed v1.92 on Dec 20, 2007

Simply the best. Small, versatile, very clean and conscientiously maintained. Everything a graphics viewer should be and my mainstay.

FIVE stars for excellence.

zridling reviewed v1.92 on Dec 20, 2007

No it's not, and no, it doesn't.

cricri_pingouin reviewed v1.92 Beta 4 on Dec 18, 2007

Excellent tool, with constant updates and improvements. This became my de-facto picture viewer/manager. I tried many others, including IrfanView, ACDSee, FastStone, but I always end up coming back to XnView. I use it on the Pocket PC as well.

aruprc reviewed v1.92 Beta 4 on Dec 15, 2007

Its a very good program but on both my old dual XEON and latest quad core, Irfan View loads and runs way faster. With big huge pics, Xn View scrolls faster compared to Irfan View but overall Irfan View is faster.

Diam0nd reviewed v1.92 Beta 4 on Dec 14, 2007

Exactly, this is a good program but NOT for viewing. Even on my fast pc IRFANVIEW is WAY faster ;/

n8thegr8 reviewed v1.92 Beta 4 on Dec 14, 2007

I use Irfanview because of the speed. It is way faster for just opening and viewing images. I like the functionality of Xnview better, but for me the speed is the killer. I click an image in explorer and it opens almost instantly with Irfanview. Not so with Xnview.

analphatester reviewed v1.92 Beta 3 on Dec 11, 2007

Acdsee v2.44 simple warez trojan

Ha ha ha ha

use it if you enough brave

sd466 reviewed v1.92 Beta 3 on Dec 10, 2007

Great app, but i still like Acdsee v2.44 better

roymccoy reviewed v1.92 Beta 2 on Dec 8, 2007

Then you cannot have tried XnView at all!

I've use IfanView AND XnView for years, and for speed, features/ utilities both programs are great.
They do pretty much the same things, only with a slightly different approach.
But XnView is just that little step ahead!

IfraView was to me the nr.1 allround image view/convert/edit programs - UNTIL i tried XnView!

Diam0nd reviewed v1.92 Beta 2 on Dec 6, 2007

Good, but as an image viewer I prefer IrfanViee: WAY faster.

evl reviewed v1.92 Beta on Dec 6, 2007

An excellent program for printing several pictures on one page. Thank you!

Ferahgo reviewed v1.92 Beta on Dec 4, 2007

Here you can find the Release Notes:
http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?t=13951

It really is nice. Good to see it is still taken care of even if it is really good as of now.

emredondo reviewed v1.91.6 on Nov 17, 2007

It's just a marvel!

robmanic44 reviewed v1.91.6 on Nov 14, 2007

There's nothing better available. Incredible!

zridling reviewed v1.91.6 on Oct 19, 2007

LOVE this sucka! WildBit is way too limited compared to XnView.

Promitheas reviewed v1.91.6 on Oct 19, 2007

Try a more light viewer also free!
http://fileforum.betanew...Bit_Viewer/1134764580/1
WildBit Viewer has also many filters to apply on your photos!

white lightning reviewed v1.91.6 on Oct 19, 2007

The best : lightweight , easy to use , good number of useful features (in particular the ability to create collages) .

statm1 reviewed v1.91.5 on Oct 6, 2007

I can also confirm that that this works on Vista very nicely!!

lfcrules reviewed v1.91.5 on Oct 5, 2007

I've been using this app in Vista for a couple of weeks now, and no problems whatsoever so far.

coover reviewed v1.91.5 on Oct 5, 2007

I haven't used this app in a while, but when i have used it, I would have rated it a 5. So i won't down rate it here.

But, according to BetaNews, the Vista Operating System is not mentioned. If this works with Vista, it should be mentioned. If it does not, that should be mentioned.

Has anyone had any experience with this app and Vista?

xpplus reviewed v1.91.5 on Oct 5, 2007

here u have of Setup (Multi-language)
http://download2.xnview.com/XnView-win.exe
or ftp://ftp2.xnview.com/xnview/XnView-win.exe

ninjeratu reviewed v1.91.5 on Oct 5, 2007

For me this is the best alternative to ACDSee. I can understand why some people would use something else (IRFanview, for example), since we all seem to want ACDSee without the bloat and all the free alternatives lack something...
I still find some features I use often much harder to use than they have to be (the resize function for example). The "Do you want to overwrite it?" when trying to save any kind of opened image (not just when 'saving as..') is really annoying and non-standard.
But still. It's vastly superior to ACDbloat and that's what counts.

inanytime reviewed v1.91.5 on Oct 5, 2007

the best that's available.
in irfanview you can't add many external applications (for uploading to various websites and editing with various external applications, etc.)
in faststone you can't add photoshop plugins.
so xnview wins.

Zebbie79 reviewed v1.91.4 on Sep 24, 2007

Too slow for me. Irfanview is faster.

robmanic44 reviewed v1.91.2 on Aug 3, 2007

So good and so powerful that it's a bit scary. I like the others, but this is a crusher.

cricri_pingouin reviewed v1.91.1 on Jun 15, 2007

Still excellent, I'm back to XnView after a brief ACDSee 9 period. I also like the new mezich skin. And as the guys below, I like to choose my own Windows theme without developers overiding my choice with what they think will look best for me, assumption which has always proven to be wrong.
So that's another five from me.

DudeBoyz reviewed v1.91.1 on Jun 14, 2007

Not bad, but I do prefer both Irfanview and FastStone by a mile. Both seem more stable and faster compared to this app.

zridling reviewed v1.91.1 on Jun 12, 2007

What KingSky said.

KingSky reviewed v1.91.1 on Jun 12, 2007

XNView is also free, so I'm not sure your comments about Faststone Viewer being free are relevant to why you would use that program instead.

Frankly, any program that steals away your ability to control the appearance of your programs through windows is the victim of extremely bad design. Nobody knows better what I want my programs to look like than I do. XNView has the good sense not to mess with this.

Dsfargeg reviewed v1.91.1 on Jun 12, 2007

It's clearly better than IrfanView, without a doubt. IV was nice some years beack, but has hardly changed since then (looks like its discontinued), so it's looking very outdated by now.

I used to use XV along with FastStone IV, but switched completely to FastStone recently as there are some things it does clearly better - like cropping images (cropping with XV is a pain), much more and better image manipulation options, superior batch processing etc.

FastStone's Jp2 support is just fine, btw - even better than XV's one, I'd say.

anomoly reviewed v1.91.1 on Jun 12, 2007

I am having problems with a jp2 in xnview, while irfanview works great with a jp2. I guess I will use irfan for jp2 and xn for all the rest (lame)

rocugbg reviewed v1.91.1 on Jun 12, 2007

Very good program, but I think Faststone Image Viewer (free) is better, what do you think?

Second Shadow reviewed v1.91.1 on Jun 12, 2007

Very good program. Almost as good as (my favorite) Irfanview. It's bit more powerful than Irfanview and has MUCH better thumbnail support.
Unfortunately, it crashes every time I try to use the thumbnail mode with video files. Therefore I substract a point. Still a nice piece of software.

h377r1d3r reviewed v1.91 on Jun 4, 2007

Has one competitor IrfanView, but XnView has nice cleaner gui, more configureable options and much better, faster, and more logical file view/edit.

uberfly reviewed v1.91 on May 18, 2007

The more I use this, the more it blows me away with it's well thought out features and abilities. nConvert alone is worth a long happy dance to me. Saves me tons of time.

poisonu reviewed v1.90.3 on Mar 14, 2007

Irfanview & XnView are my favorites...
IrfanView for Windows,
& XnView for its cross platform support.
On Windows XnView lacks many of IrfanView's multimedia features.

boaz reviewed v1.90.3 Beta on Feb 28, 2007

Very good image viewer/editor. I was using Irfanview for a long time, before I switched to this program. The last version was a little buggy, but the author is trying to fix the bugs with these beta updates. The software is free, and I thank him for that. He will fix the minor issues.

rocugbg reviewed v1.90.3 Beta on Feb 28, 2007

Really good software, but I think that Faststone Image Viewer is somewhat better, nicer layout and the smart fullscreen viewer.

bugmenot reviewed v1.90.2 on Feb 20, 2007

This seems to me quite obviously the best freeware application of its type. I find it a bit slower (not much; just a bit) than ACDSee 9 Photo Manager, but given the price, I'll deal with it.

Some things are not as easy to do as with ACDSee, but again, for the price...

When saving or converting images to JPG (and perhaps other formats), don't expect the same quality you would get with something like Paint Shop Pro. I've compared the two side-by-side, using similar file sizes and compression levels, and XnView doesn't fare as well.

Roj, they do make decaf, you know.

Mystiqq reviewed v1.90.2 on Feb 9, 2007

Best there is. Only problems i had was with the nxshellex. That took some time get working, fix was found on their forums...

uzi reviewed v1.90.2 on Feb 8, 2007

A very powerful and flexible picture viewer, and converter.

Has a few editing capabilities, and can view also many movie formats, but it is weak when it comes to movies.

Yet for pictures it is my favorite. It is more flexible and customizable than Irfanview (another excellent viewer, even though I prefer XNView). Supports many formats including rare ones.

Diam0nd reviewed v1.90.2 on Feb 8, 2007

Nice viewer. #2 after IrfanView, in my opinion.

boaz reviewed v1.90.2 on Feb 8, 2007

Excellent program. Been using it for a long time.

Here is the changelog for v1.90.2:
* Link problem
* Save selection
* Column width
* File open/Save dialog on NT
* Sort by description
* no sound in .exe slide
* category pane
* No files in convert
* Del in full screen
* Blank screen in fullscreen
* Files with different X/Y DPI
* Partition as favorite
* Dos filename

roj reviewed v1.90.2 on Feb 8, 2007

Another point release!

"You lost ANOTHER one, andre?"

Geez - FOUR stars for letting stupid bugs out the door after an extended testing cycle.

Edit:

Two immediate releases following a Final which came after a long beta and ridiculously long RC program and STILL this thing has bugs that crash it doing simple file moves via drag 'n' drop. It also crashes on simple file operations when it can't update the image properties ingformation fast enough if you do several fast file views / deletes in quick succession. Inexcusable - clean up your act, people.

THREE stars for what has surpassed stupidity and now borders on moronic.

Normally I give this proggy screechingly high ratings but this latest release needs a can of Raid.

rocugbg reviewed v1.90.1 on Feb 7, 2007

I like it very much, but I think FastStone Image Viewer is somewhat better, but the difference is not so big, it's just a matter of taste.

yagood reviewed v1.90.1 on Feb 7, 2007

It's 10 MB because it contains plug-ins etc. (filename is XnView-win-full.zip so it's packed with stuff).

zapatero reviewed v1.90.1 on Feb 7, 2007

This download is 10 MB. In the website, http://perso.orange.fr/p...ew/endownloadwin32.html, the download is 3.2 MB. What is the difference?

roj reviewed v1.90.1 on Feb 7, 2007

I can't belive it. Months of betas, two months of Release Candidates and STILL a nice list of bug fixes a couple of weeks after release?

Yeesh!

Still, the commitment to fixing the product is undeniably highly commendable. This is THE premier graphics and multimedia management utility available - period. ACDSee is crap next to this - overpriced crap at that.

FIVE stars for excellence.

darkpepe reviewed v1.90 on Feb 4, 2007

Much better than compupic irfanview or similar. Got to luv this!

uberfly reviewed v1.90 on Jan 30, 2007

I agree. I totally {heart} this app. Its batch convert abilities alone make my life much easier dealing with tons of web graphics. It's so well thought out and works great. And that part about it being free... that too is pretty damn cool.

zridling reviewed v1.90 on Jan 30, 2007

I have nothing but love in my heart for XnView (and the vapors)!

donce reviewed v1.90 RC1 on Jan 11, 2007

1.90 RC1 is poor version. If you don't prefer testing software, you should wait for a final release. Also you can download stable 1.82.4 version. Anyway it is fast picture viewer and comfortable simple editor. It is great tool viewing and editing pictures.

boaz reviewed v1.90 RC1 on Jan 9, 2007

I was an old IrfanView fan, until I tried Xnview. Xnview has a few more features I like than Irfanview does.

HelgeFossmo reviewed v1.90 RC1 on Jan 9, 2007

Changelog for the 1.90 test versions can be found here:
http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?t=11292

The changelog is too long to post here.

roj reviewed v1.90 RC1 on Jan 9, 2007

Finally! Release Candidate status! I've been waiting to put this on my latest build and didn't want to do a beta. Hopefully the Final will follow ion short order for this most excellent of graphics utilities.

FIVE stars.

chronon reviewed v1.90 Beta 6 on Dec 21, 2006

I'm using this software for about a year, can live without it. Support several file types (image, video, ...), it's fast. Have many useful functions that. The 1.9 version have outstanding improvements over 1.8x.

matt2971 reviewed v1.90 Beta 6 on Dec 21, 2006

Have to agree with everyone else - been my photo viewer and organiser of choice for years, and I also use the batch convert function, but it does 1001 other things besides, without being bloated. Magnificent software.

zridling reviewed v1.90 Beta 5 on Dec 13, 2006

I can't think of one thing I dislike about XnView, so I'm forced to give it a 5. If only every program was this well built.

robmanic44 reviewed v1.90 Beta 4 on Dec 12, 2006

If anything, this software may be too powerful for some users. Until you've used it, you can't appreciate all the things it can do, and do well.

roj reviewed v1.90 Beta 4 on Dec 11, 2006

Excellent software, blowing away IrfanView and especially ACDsee. I hope the next release is the final...

FIVE stars for excellence.

DeathAxe reviewed v1.90 Beta 2 on Nov 30, 2006

been using an older acdsee for a while now, never liked irfan thingy. THIS prog is really good. I'll be using this as my image viewer from now on.

egg83 reviewed v1.90 Beta 1 on Nov 20, 2006

Great image viewer and basic editor. Is reasonably fast loading, and handles thumbnails well. Am waiting for final release, though I had no errors with beta.

blackspawn reviewed v1.90 Beta 1 on Nov 17, 2006

I'm also an ex-Irfanview user, since I tried XnView i never went back. IrfanView is a nice program don't get me wrong but I think XnView is much more powerfull is terms of funcionality, usability and configuration. And i've only skinned the surface with this little prog (but one can tell...)

Joffi reviewed v1.90 Alpha 2 on Oct 23, 2006

Quote from the XnView Official Forums Alpha Release thread:
"+ Download portals and websites must link to final versions of XnView only, and in no case link to this Alpha version."

Now for the review: I used to use Infranview (still good), until I discovered XnView. Fast and so configurable, it is the top of the heap for image browsers/convertors/basic editors. Get the release versions though ;)

the artist reviewed v1.90 Alpha 3 on Sep 27, 2006

Excelent, even if a bit ugly.

@utomo: the Themes are already there. not very nice, but usable.

utomo reviewed v1.90 Alpha 3 on Sep 27, 2006

Almost perfect. keep innovate and improve.

suggestion:
- Add options so user can cganhe/ add skin/ change icons, ETC.
- Please support more wider format, such as RAW, ETC. also more export format.

pyridox reviewed v1.90 Alpha 3 on Sep 27, 2006

The download link is for Alpha 2, not Alpha 3 as stated! Program help\about says v1.90 Alpha 2.

Great program though.

^M^ reviewed v1.90 Alpha 3 on Sep 27, 2006

Fast and light.

zridling reviewed v1.90 Alpha 3 on Sep 27, 2006

I have nothing but love in my heart for XnView, a near-perfect image viewer and competent, basic editor.

egg83 reviewed v1.90 Alpha 2 on Aug 23, 2006

Have used this product for years, had few problems, this version seems ok, no bugs detected yet. Keep up the great work!

benZin reviewed v1.90 Alpha 2 on Aug 19, 2006

It looks good.

pyridox reviewed v1.90 Alpha 2 on Aug 18, 2006

I used Irfanview for years, which is also free, but recently I started using this program. It has some more features than Irfanview.

chronon reviewed v1.90 Alpha on Aug 10, 2006

Its a nice and powerful image viewer and organizer. It has several options to manipulate images. Support batch conversions and rename. In batch conversions you can apply operations to the target images, veryful and handy. My only complain would be a problem dealing with large number of files (100+), I'm not sure if this is because the cache options is off, I don't like to cache images.

uzi reviewed v1.82.4 on Mar 25, 2006

A very flexible and powerful piece of program.
Some of the "deficiencies" reported in other reviews, do not exist. For example, there is no problem to configure the software so that it opens pictures automatically in full window, and the ESC works fine in such a case.

I prefer it over IrfanView for its better flexibility.

Deedstyger reviewed v1.82.4 on Mar 16, 2006

+ a must if u ve a powerful pc.
- too slow thumb cache makes me use irfanview instead of xnview.

butthead reviewed v1.82.4 on Mar 8, 2006

why is the .4 version more than twice the size of .3? Outstanding piece of software btw, an essential tool for my digital photo workflow.

Kal-El reviewed v1.82.4 on Mar 7, 2006

XnView v1.82.4 (LIBFORMAT v4.57) 07/03/2006:

Added : TIFF EXIF support
Fixed : Layout 3

spiked reviewed v1.82.3 on Mar 5, 2006

Great features and extensive format support. Speed and program size are very reasonable (but of course I wouldn't mind having a tiny bit more speed when browsing). Although XnView is cross-platform, the UI of the Windows version is "normal" (free of the quirks you sometimes find in cross-platform graphical apps, all the way down to its CHM-based help). Plenty of options and customization available, and the author has been continuously improving it. Highly recommended.

rip_pit reviewed v1.82.3 on Feb 28, 2006

v1.82.3
Added : GridSpacingX & GriSpacingY
Fixed : Move file/folder on 95/98/Me
Fixed : Batch convert - Rotate
Fixed : Sepia
Fixed : GridType
Fixed : WebPage, EXIF/IPTC on thumbnail
Fixed : only 1 effect when using -slide
Fixed : transparency color in fullscreen
Fixed : 'apply to image' not kept in filter
Fixed : history in btach rename
Fixed : Not all files are shown after a search
For XNView v1.82.3 French visit : hxxp://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?t=5442
Or simply get to the board at: hxxp://newsgroup.xnview.com/index.php

KingSky reviewed v1.82.3 on Feb 28, 2006

Awesome program. Very fast and bug free.

Blue_Horse reviewed v1.82.2 on Feb 9, 2006

The changelog is here http://perso.wanadoo.fr/...g/xnview/enhistory.html

pyridox reviewed v1.82.2 on Feb 9, 2006

Great program. Easy, and not bloated.

I wonder what the changelog is for this version?

Adrian79 reviewed v1.82.1 on Feb 8, 2006

yay!

dhry reviewed v1.82.1 on Feb 7, 2006

Not a bad program, but it's not really built for speed. ACDSee allows you to cache images backward and forward when viewing. XNView theoretically does ("read one image ahead" option), but in practice when viewing images, there is a noticeable delay of half a second to a second when you press SPACE to go to the next image. What it appears to be doing is loading the image, but then when you press space it actually does the high-quality fit to screen AFTERWARDS, then displays the image. Reading an image ahead should mean reading and preparing the image for INSTANT display upon pressing space. Still a great program, but the lag in viewing is pretty much a dealkiller for me. I'd recommend using this for batch image editing etc - but for viewing, it's still ACDsee or even Picasa.

zridling reviewed v1.82.1 on Feb 7, 2006

Seems to be a lot of false criticism based on misinformation or sheer non-use of XnView, since all these problems I'm reading cannot be replicated. XnView is primarily a viewer and has never pretended to be an image editor. Sure, it can do a few basic operations, but that's not its purpose. It's built for speed and agility, not for bloat.

matt2971 reviewed v1.82.1 on Feb 7, 2006

bobad, it opens full screen for me with a doubleclick, and exits back to the browser on escape - not sure if this is the default action or my setup, but it's certainly possible!

This has been my image viewer for a few years now... for the casual user this is the best available IMO.

bobad reviewed v1.82 Final on Feb 7, 2006

Nice program, but what kind of program is it really? I can't call it a picture viewer, because it doesn't allow opening pictures for viewing in full screen. To go full screen requires another mouse click, and then escape doesn't exit instantly as it should. The program is very configurable, and that's a good thing. The bad thing is, the configuration tool is not intuitive, and takes a lot of looking around to get it right,,, and after all the hassle, you can't even get it right. I think the program tries to do too many things, and does nothing well. It's also very large and bloated. Yes, this program is useful and usable if you invest a lot of time getting used to all the quirks and configuring it. For a better picture viewer with quick editing, try FastStone. It's about 1/3 the size, and the default configuration is perfect for viewing pictures. It works great in combination with PhotoFiltre, for heavier-duty editing needs.

photonboy reviewed v1.82 Final on Feb 7, 2006

If programs such as Picasa were not available I might have given this five stars. It reminds me of earlier versions of ACDSee.

It's a good program, especially for the price. If you are very serious about photography I highly recommend ACDSee. Picasa is also popular, but I really don't like the way they organize the pictures.

Having said all this, it's best to start with freeware, and if it suits all your needs why pay for something you don't need? I really like the open source concept. I hope it really lasts. (about four years ago I anticipated that in 2006 I'd be using Linux and almost all free software. Instead I'm looking forward to Vista and I have purchased ACDSee, Zoomplayer Pro etc)

Adrian79 reviewed v1.82 Final on Feb 6, 2006

yay!! goodstuff

zridling reviewed v1.82 on Feb 3, 2006

So fast. So good. So easy. So nice.

bendingspoons reviewed v1.82 on Feb 3, 2006

History
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/...g/xnview/enhistory.html

twosheds reviewed v1.82 on Feb 3, 2006

Would have been nice to know what those improvements are before downloading and installing.....

hurzx reviewed v1.82 on Feb 3, 2006

I tested it for a while. A lot of improvements. Very user-friendly and fast. Excellent program.

sqstultz reviewed v1.82 on Feb 3, 2006

Excellent image viewer and image batch processor. All of it's features are polished, and it offers full support for IPTC metatagging. This app is a very good choice for power users who need a rock-solid and full-featured image utility. I frequently reivew software for clients, and XnView has been tops on my list for some time. It's strongest point is in batch processing. Nearly everything about an image can be batch processed- including image size, rotation, brightness, contrast, file name, file name case changes, and IPTC meta tagging. I too switched from IrfanView to XnView about a year ago.

benZin reviewed v1.82 on Feb 3, 2006

hurzx, Pfurri, a recent sample program better than XnView, FastStone! For ACDSee 2.44, even if the development is stopped, it's for me the faster browser. Appearance does not have or little importance. The interface is not as simple as in ACDSee.

pyridox reviewed v1.82 on Feb 3, 2006

This is a fantastic image viewer/enhancer. I use it for my digital camera photos. I used to use Irfanviw for a long time, but I have now swithced to XnView because Irfanview program & features have not been imnproved in ages.

SirMango reviewed v1.82 RC3 on Jan 27, 2006

Really good image viewer with lots of good filters that will help you optimze your images.
My only issue with it is that it always hangs it always hangs when I switch between 2 very large image folders

pyridox reviewed v1.82 RC3 on Jan 26, 2006

Very nice picture file viewing/editing program. Has a pretty good number of features, including a very good "red eye" remover. I only use it for picture graphic files only.

stopy; what doesn't work?

horsecharles reviewed v1.82 RC3 on Jan 26, 2006

Folks, easiest way to deal with constant updates: say your install is at Program Files/Xnview...just have your decompress process extract to Program Files-- then each folder/subfolder: from Xnview on down, will receive needed newer versions.
Needless to say, make a backup copy of entire Xnview install, so that in case of some new issue(or even coincidental system problem) you won't need to trash the review rating.
And if yuo get a problem when using it in non-installed manner, try the alternative-- to see if the issue disappears.
Merci mon amis...et, merveilleux Pierre!

stopy reviewed v1.82 RC3 on Jan 26, 2006

Does not work

Adrian79 reviewed v1.82 RC1 on Jan 13, 2006

will this assist in making gif files? i have gifanimator, but i need a bunch of screenshots of an avi clip inorder to create the gif file i wanna make..

so is this the proggie i need?

zridling reviewed v1.82 RC1 on Jan 13, 2006

eorl, I think you're talking about Faststone or something else. I can't find any of the problems you're having. XnView is simply great.

eorl reviewed v1.82 Beta 3 on Jan 12, 2006

It is difficult to go back and forth from browser to fullscreen. Dumb preview windows cover up picture when making adjustment. Program freeze when navigating more than 2000 file. Sloppy dialogs too big for some desktops (too small and antiquated for new high resolution monitors). It is a great picture cropper in fullscreen (if you are able to choose the right fullscreen). It has good renamer and batch convertor. It is almost portable and doesn't alter or add to system files. A great many buggy option which should be greyed out instead of just hanging around. Average grade from me only because most other programs are just horribly bad. Its better than most, but that does not make it great.

aldago reviewed v1.82 Beta 3 on Jan 7, 2006

danilloOc
try View, View as, Thumbnails & Labels

and yes, this is the best freeware image viewer.

danilloOc reviewed v1.82 Beta 3 on Jan 5, 2006

This is a nice program with great features, the only bad point in this betas is that the Thumbnails labels DON'T work so why have it in the settings if it's don't work anymore?

Other that this, excellent prog.

Buggle reviewed v1.82 Beta 3 on Jan 4, 2006

Have not yet tried the program, but I was wondering, does this program support watching a full screen slideshow on the TV out?

zridling reviewed v1.82 Beta 2 on Dec 20, 2005

Best freeware viewer around. Period.

pyridox reviewed v1.82 Beta 2 on Dec 20, 2005

Xnview works great! I use it for my digital camera photos. It has just the right amount of features, and very good "red eye removal".

I used to be an avid Irfanview user, but that program is falling behind in usability & some features I need.

There is just one annoying kluge, it doesn't seem to remember windows size. I have to keep resizing the window, when going from view mode & back to browse mode.

lordnaastik reviewed v1.82 Beta 1 on Dec 9, 2005

along with irfanview,the best image viewer around. But xnview has more features.

petiot reviewed v1.82 Beta 1 on Dec 9, 2005

XnView is a fine software. almost portable, small, effective. I have used it for a long time, but i have switched to cPicture which from my point of view is better (in terms of portability). It is not even reviewed on this site (shame on you File Forum ;), but it is worth trying it, beleive me.

In all cases softs like ACDsee or Picasa are rubish. People who use that dont have the same requirement as the one who use software like XnView. Regarding fastone, it was the best for a while. now it has become bloated with many useless features.

stisev reviewed v1.82 Beta 1 on Dec 9, 2005

The best image viewer on windows. Hands down!

benZin,

Responding to your comment.

I, too, was a die-hard fan of ACDSee 2.44 and even went back to it after using XNView.

However, I now realize that XNView is far, far, FAR superior to ACDSee in every measurable sense. You can replicate all of the behaviors of ACDSee plus more

hurzx reviewed v1.82 Beta 1 on Dec 8, 2005

Great app. For some reason there are sort of anti-fan like BenZin who systematically underrate it to avoid their favorite to disappear. A liitle bit ridiculous and very childish...
XnView is definitely the reference of the category with more features others.

benZin reviewed v1.82 Beta 1 on Dec 8, 2005

bad bad, mauvais, nul :) ACDSee Classic 2.44 is better

yusufjee reviewed v1.82 Alpha on Nov 15, 2005

This is one awesome App. Its lightweight yet powerful and please dont even mention faststone or ACDSEE. Picasa is completely different more of an organizer.

stisev reviewed v1.82 Alpha on Nov 3, 2005

egg83,
ACDSee 2.43 classic is actually pretty fast.

Having said that, I am switching to XNView. It is the best image viewer ever.

egg83 reviewed v1.82 Alpha on Nov 3, 2005

This is the best graphics viewer ever. ACDSEE should have been this fast, this non-bloated.

Julesword reviewed v1.82 Alpha on Nov 2, 2005

I dumped ACDSee for Compupic years ago, and then went looking for a freebie that was most similar to Compupic. I've settled on XnView and I love it. It is fast, caches thumbnails quickly, has lots of options, and for me it works a lot like Compupic. (Caching thumbs is an essential which most other programs miss).

I was very concerned when Pierre released a deluxe version that cost money, fearing that free XnView would die or be badly crippled. Thankfully so far that hasn't happened. If it was open source and the author tried to cripple it and release a pay version, others could take the last open source version and fork it and save the program. Unfortunately I haven't found an open source one that is as great as XnView- maybe someday.

zridling reviewed v1.82 Alpha on Nov 1, 2005

XnView is far more customizable and MUCH faster than FastStone, and it doesn't have that crappy, stupid interface.

KingSky reviewed v1.82 Alpha on Nov 1, 2005

Faststone's interface is awful. XNView is much faster.

photonboy reviewed v1.81 Beta on Oct 15, 2005

Try "Picasa2" and then rate this program if you want to compare freeware. (Lots of people love it. I wonder if it's freeware days are numbered?)

As for ACDSee:
What do you people mean by "bloated?" Bloated refers to the efficiency of the code and NOT the size of the program.
ACDSEE v8 will open in ONE SECOND on my system (after it's been opened once). If you "Catalog Files" in the "Database" then the thumbnails open almost instantaneously. I had two hundred thumbnails in a directory open in one second. It makes good use of memory, is optimized to start quickly and will "optimize the database" for even quicker accessibility. This is the OPPOSITE of bloatware.
This software just keeps getting better and better. I love the ability to resize and email automatically.
I think many people are mistaking "bloatware" for having lots of features. If you can get by with freeware then you don't need this. I have compared it to every program there is and if you use enough of the features it is definitely worth the price.
There are so many great features I can't even begin to list them. I have used ACDSee since the very first version and it is truly amazing.
I understand that many people only need a few options so Xnview may be a desireable choice. But to compare it to shareware that has tonnes more features is comparing apples to oranges.

oomingmak reviewed v1.81 Beta on Oct 15, 2005

Hmmm... I have not tried this program for quite a while, but I was interested to note that this version now rivals IrfanView for speed (for example in opening large JPEG200 images). When I last tried XNView (quite some time ago) IrfanView was much faster. However, this program seems to have been written much better than IrfanView (not difficult because IrfanView is a total mess code wise and this has created all sorts of limitation with regard to extensibility). The approach is cleaner and more modern (e.g. proper support for metadata).

I have to say I don't like all this browsing stuff in XNView (I much prefer just a simple viewer) but the program is flexible enough to allow you to set it up so that you don't have to see all the browsing / slideshow stuff, and these extra features have not bloated out the program because the install files are still pretty small.

I like the option of having a choice of install types. I personally prefer zip installs (no regsistry junk added and you can delete any files that you dont want). Also you can get a minimal install to keep the installation nice and light, and then just add support for whatever formats you need by using the zipped plugin download.

Skin support is good to have (although there are some really dodgy themes included as standard). My favourite is the Mezich skin.

This program looks like it's going in the right direction (provided that the developer doesn't go down the crazy "try to do every single thing in one program" route. The menus are getting a bit overfilled as it is.

benZin reviewed v1.81 Beta on Oct 15, 2005

Bad graphic interface. FastStone is faster and more beautifull!

hurzx reviewed v1.81 Beta on Oct 15, 2005

Light in resources and much faster than other app particularly Faststone.

egg83 reviewed v1.81 Beta on Oct 14, 2005

Best image viewer out there. ACDSEE is too bloated, XNView has the features most normal users would access right within reach, and developer makes useful changes at every release.

Dapple reviewed v1.80.3 on Sep 8, 2005

Installer is available from their website for all 3 versions. ( server 2 has the most recent files )

And it is far better than ACDsee bloatware.Last version of ACDsee that was good was ver 2.4

If your about box says 1.80.2 after the update ,delete the XNView.exe file and try again.

zridling reviewed v1.80.3 on Sep 7, 2005

Not at the level of ACDSee 8, but the best freeware image viewer around, period, and MUCH faster than FastStaone.

captainahab reviewed v1.80.3 on Sep 7, 2005

A truly great program. Beats most image viewers, payware or freeware.
NOTE: There is no installer with this package. The files in this zip will upgrade your installed version to 1.80.2

ESTAN reviewed v1.80.3 on Sep 7, 2005

I like the program, it's fast and correct and above all free.

Though, the about dialog say it is version 1.80.2.

hurzx reviewed v1.80.3 on Sep 7, 2005

Always better. And the author is very responsive. A must have !

distinguished reviewed v1.80.2 Final on Sep 4, 2005

wish it would process .wbz images

softssa reviewed v1.80.2 Final on Sep 1, 2005

This one is the best NO EYE-CANDY, strictly for organizing every type of image or photo you've got!

anomoly reviewed v1.80.2 Final on Sep 1, 2005

I prefer faststone gui. Also there is no such thing as a FINAL unless authors give up.

hurzx reviewed v1.80.2 Final on Sep 1, 2005

Excellent, indeed!!! This version is amazing. Fast and complete. No issue. The perfect tool for me as I can also use it for videos, what Fastone (also very good) does not support. Definitely a must. Thank you

QQ reviewed v1.80.2 RC on Sep 1, 2005

This app is amazing! The author is great aswell - it might take time, but he DOES read all the mails, and usually includes all the suggestions/fixes all the bugs reported!

top notch software with top notch support (paid suites should learn)

matt2971 reviewed v1.80.2 RC on Aug 30, 2005

My favourite image viewer bar none.. very configurable.

danilloOc reviewed v1.80.2 RC on Aug 30, 2005

Excellent software, the better image viewer i've tried till now, it's very fast and have great features.

crisnupra reviewed v1.80.2 RC on Aug 30, 2005

I love XNVIEW, it's the perfect software for organizing, previewing and apply smooth changes to my photos. It's a little more heavy that IRFANVIEW but trust me it has it all...
Very easy to use interface and a lot of tools helping the photo fan.
Keep on coming!!!!!!!!!!

dejavu reviewed v1.80.2 RC on Aug 30, 2005

Great!!! The WEB is full of superior free image viewers. Make your choice!

yokozuna reviewed v1.80.2 RC on Aug 30, 2005

The features deserve a solid five (the program can view almost all RAW files, even paid suites (e.g. glorified ACDSee) do not come close). The interface is mediocre and the author should sacrifice some time for improvements.

Lammikko reviewed v1.80.1 on Aug 4, 2005

Very useful interface if you are used to tabs.

hmueller reviewed v1.80.1 on Jul 26, 2005

Thank you BenZin for your second qualified comment: By now we know that you are a fan of FastStone Viewer. FastStone viewer is definitely also quite good, but no point to give bad ratings, here.

For those who are searching for a powerful viewer it's worth while downloading and evaluating both of them (both are freeware).

benZin reviewed v1.80.1 on Jul 9, 2005

Bad! Vive FastStone Image Viewer mouahahaha.

jaspoid reviewed v1.80.1 on Jun 29, 2005

Dated interface, but some good features.

(BTW, zridling, ACDSee 2.42 was released in October 1999..)

anomoly reviewed v1.80.1 on Jun 29, 2005

Finally fixed the file association probs. Worth being the topdog again. Thanks

Opened up jpg & tried to print through interface in landscape & it still spat out in portrait screwing up the aspect along the way. Had to print through IrFanview & landscape worked. SEEMS THERE STILL MAY BE BUGS

twosheds reviewed v1.80.1 on Jun 29, 2005

I must admit, having used Irfanview for nearly 5 years, I have now defected to this. As I occasionally use other operating systems than Windows, I find the thought of retaining a graphic browser across platforms appealing. There's work to be done, but this really is exceptional in an overcrowded software category.

zridling reviewed v1.80.1 on Jun 29, 2005

Yikes man, 2.42 was released about years ago — are you still using Windows95 too? ACDSee 8 will surprise everyone, but XnView ROCKS.

guti reviewed v1.80.1 on Jun 28, 2005

I have been using ACDSee until version 2.42, then I changed to Irfanview until 3.97, now I am with XnView 1.80.1...

hmueller reviewed v1.80 on Jun 26, 2005

The new XnView 1.80 is just brilliant. The look has changed from soso to really nifty. And the new filmstrip layout and EXIF auto rotation are very handy for me.

benZin reviewed v1.80 on Jun 26, 2005

Naaah, XnView is dead. FastStone Image Viewer is better, faster...

zridling reviewed v1.80 on Jun 19, 2005

Read the site and quit complaining — the new version is there already. XnView stomps the other freeware alternatives in its class!

gribelu reviewed v1.80 on Jun 18, 2005

It's the best viewer that i've ever used.. free even :) .. a 5
P.S. software usualy moves from beta to RC when all the planned features have been implemented but bug fixing is still in progress. Would you rather have 1.8, 1.81, 1.82 etc?

Qlib reviewed v1.80 on Jun 17, 2005

This program is just so good its ridiclous.. and who cares if it goes to RC30 as long as it means its rock stable (something ACDSee doesnt know what means) and fast (another thing ACDSee has no idea what means) not to mention useful with a good set of support for formats (yet another thing ACDSee has no idea about).. not to mention its FREE.. something.. heh.. ACDSee isnt..

oh yea.. did i mention size and the lack of bloated garbagefeatures nobody uses anyway that ACDSee is LOADED with?..

Exellentemundo!

markus10018 reviewed v1.80 RC7 on Jun 14, 2005

There is no RC7, the advertised here is from May (1st beta)

AlexBR reviewed v1.80 RC7 on Jun 13, 2005

I love XnView, but I guess I´ll just wait for the final version.
Seven (maybe eight, nine...) release candidates is stupid. Never seen such a thing before. If this is the 7th RC, then just call it a BETA!

zridling reviewed v1.80 RC5 on Jun 7, 2005

FastStone really doesn't come close to XnView's feature set as a image viewer, instead focusing on minor editing functions. If you're wanting to simply view and catalog your photo collection, ACDSee is the best followed by XnView.

ArabianNight reviewed v1.80 RC5 on Jun 7, 2005

its good but faststone image viewer is better.

danilloOc reviewed v1.80 RC5 on Jun 7, 2005

In my opinion, XnView is the best image view out there. This RC5 fixed the bugs and make it more powerful with features like the tab navigation.

just give it it a spin.

anomoly reviewed v1.80 RC5 on Jun 7, 2005

though irfanview is still installed, this has replaced it for the simple fact it has layout features that make it more user friendly. works on ANY platform!!

guti reviewed v1.80 RC4 on Jun 2, 2005

IMHO Irfanview is more powerful, but XNView is a great free application also.

pyridox reviewed v1.80 RC4 on Jun 2, 2005

Very nice app. I had been using Irfanview for a long time, and XnView seems very promising too.

ZoarValley reviewed v1.80 RC3 on May 28, 2005

Always my 1st choice as a slide show viewer, the "Cross-fading" setting made my day. With all of the other improvements, this program is just too good to be true.

hardgiant reviewed v1.80 RC2 on May 20, 2005

So I loaded RC2 and see that it does in fact allow you to drag a very large image around.

You have to use the right click button to achieve this though but in fullscreen mode from the browser allows the left click button to have this function.

It's not perfect but it's pretty good.

PS: I love the tabs

PSS: I'll have to go through this app more thoroughly to find all it's new features.

egg83 reviewed v1.80 RC2 on May 20, 2005

Another "Can't live without" app. Does everything one could ask for in regards to viewing pictures and playing media files. Deserves a 6 for the effort the author has put into this app. Is what ACDSEE should have been.

finalcut reviewed v1.80 RC1 on May 19, 2005

the best of this kind
impossible to compare with bloated acdsee unless maybe with acdsee classic version..

joe2005 reviewed v1.80 RC1 on May 19, 2005

No xzeos has always the Deluxe, currently 2.5
And last update for XnView (1.74) is Oct 11 2004.
We wait the final release...

zridling reviewed v1.80 RC1 on May 19, 2005

Obviously you haven't tried ACDSee 7, which is so much faster than this. XnView is a nice little freeware app, but this is its first update in over two years. Their Deluxe 2.0 version was abandoned by XZeos in early 2004.

OCedHrt reviewed v1.80 RC1 on May 19, 2005

Seems to be a bit better than irfanview in functionality (mainly the browser) :) But, does it open archives? (not saying irfanview does) I know I can view them in the browser (and if they're not compressed I can view the first image).

Kamael reviewed v1.80 RC1 on May 18, 2005

I can't live without this app... free, fast, and does everything I want...ACDSee - Bloat = XnView

tsehov reviewed v1.74 on Apr 7, 2005

I think I have at least tried almost every application doing or trying to do same things as XnView does. And still I always have returned to use XnView. There are several good programs of this kind (for instance ACDSee until version 5 and Cam2PC etc.) but I find XnView the best of all. It is very light (in resources) and fast, highly configurable, it has a great many features etc. etc.

Mystiqq reviewed v1.74 on Mar 27, 2005

I highly recommend this one.

httpd.confused reviewed v1.70.4 on Oct 6, 2004

I used ACDSee 5 PowerPack for a very long time. I finally got tired of its slowness and aggravating bugs, and started looking for something better. The ACDSee 7 PowerPack was a disaster for me (see my review of it). I tried a bunch of other commercial packages, and disliked them all. So, I gave in and tried XnView.

I was expecting total junk. Everyone raves about freeware, even if it's crap. That's just the way it is; people grade on a wild curve.

But what a pleasant surprise... XnView is great. Better format support, a MUCH cleaner install, speed, less bloat, a configurable toolbar, good looks, obviously a better price tag... you name it.

I have not been using XnView for long, but I did look for quality markers such as: When it takes over file associations, does it back up the previously-used master file type first? (Yes, it does.) Does it let you effectively disable MRU lists? (Yes, it does.) And so on.

But I can't help but feel that XnView is lacking something ACDSee has... What is it? Oh, I know! Bloat, a ridiculous price tag, and privacy-robbing phone-home features. Silly me.

egg83 reviewed v1.70.4 on Sep 14, 2004

Program is comparable to ACDSee, and is free. Been using for years and with no problems with crashing, etc. A must have for the computer user.

cricri_pingouin reviewed v1.70.3 on Jun 29, 2004

Until about a month ago, I had ACDsee Classic installed, expired.
Now I have XnView installed. And to replace ACDsee Classic is a very nice performance, since I kept it over IrfanView between others.
5 stars without hesitation, congrats and thanks :)

Dirk van Hoofen reviewed v1.70.3 on Jun 28, 2004

Really good freeware. I use it, if I read out pictures from my camera and create thumbnails with it.

insanept reviewed v1.70.2 on Jun 18, 2004

After ACDSee became the bloat we all know, I found XnView.
Either returning to ACDSee 3 or using XnView, I found this a much better choice and am not in any way regreted, this is great image viewing software.

lodoss5 reviewed v1.70 on Jun 6, 2004

A very good program, looks like ACDSee. But I have some troubles with thumbnails (size of my thumbnails is very large) : on some directories with a lot of photos, all thumbnails are not displayed and the window preview does not work correctly.

sdare reviewed v1.70 on Jun 6, 2004

Have used XnView for around 7 yrs. Small. Fast. Stand-alone install. Features to rival any bloat-ware photo programs. What's not to like?

FailedCRC reviewed v1.68.1 on May 22, 2004

Wow, xnview has improved a lot recently and all the annoying niggles i had with it are gone in this version. Goodbye ACDSee :)I think it's time for me to pay for this fantastic piece of freeware.

muka3d reviewed v1.68.1 on May 1, 2004

Best image viewing/converting software hands down.

ranasrule reviewed v1.68.1 on Feb 18, 2004

downloaded and installed it 10 minutes back......uninstalling ACDSee as i write this.....awesome :)

likwidoxigen reviewed v1.66 on Jan 3, 2004

Amazing program, converts quickly and efficently, and makes converting my .bmp picutres en masse no sweat. Well designed, simple to use and far better than the built in Windows Feature.

netnis reviewed v1.61 on Aug 27, 2003

yaaa, das iz good

noskievic reviewed v1.60 on May 16, 2003

excellent! free!!

Monitox reviewed v1.50 on Dec 7, 2002

Good but still not VERY GOOD :(

klumy reviewed v1.50 on Dec 7, 2002

This version is better than ever !!

greatwhitenorth reviewed v1.45 on Oct 25, 2002

The best just got better. It blows ac/crappy out of the water! (P.S. It's still friggin' FREE!!)

klumy reviewed v1.37 on Jul 2, 2002

An awesome program with a lots of features.
In some cases it's better than some shareware-competitors.
And the best it's Freeware !!

Draginol reviewed v1.37 on Jul 2, 2002

Let me set the record straight since I work on WindowBlinds. It does NOT install hooks all over the place. Rather it uses a single system hook. Microsoft also installs a system hook. This can be easily proven - when you are running an msstyle theme, open up any process in a profiler and you will find the DLL uxtheme.dll attached to every process. That is because when you run an msstyle, all messages get filtered through uxtheme.dll. In other words, it's very inaccurate to claim that msstyles are some how more native or faster than WindowBlinds. A better description would be to say that they're bundled with XP. Instead of wblind.dll you have uxtheme.dll. So why is WindowBlinds faster? Because WindowBlinds makes use of video card acceleration for drawing whereas msstyles (currently) do not. It has to be remembered that we worked closely with Microsoft during the development of Windows XP. I can assure you, if there'd been no WindowBlinds, there'd be no msstyles, their implementation is nearly identical to WindowBlinds 2.12 (an older version of WB which had no hardware acceleration). There is also the fact that WindowBlinds can skin non-theme aware applications precisely because it isn't tied to Common Controls 6 (which we too can use when available). Ultimately, it boils down to whether the given solution meets the user's needs. Both have their good points. But please do not imply that WindowBlinds is somehow slower or less native because it's not. At its core, they are almost identical in implementation, hooks and all. WindowBlinds EXTENDS visual styles.

Fenrirkun reviewed v1.30 on Feb 22, 2002

Splendid program. Nice and Free, all I can ask for.

maad deeb reviewed v1.25 on Jan 11, 2002

It supports read/write JPEG2000 (*.jpc, *.jp2,..)
It is unbeatble graphic mate, very powerful, i could call it The Ultimate Mate (TUM) but i can't. It is much better.. i use it for viewing, reading, writing, browsing, slideshowing, in shower (sorry..)... and it is more compact than irfanview (it is less than 2Mb). Irfan view exceeds 2MB limit so you can combine it any where and it can fit a "SINGLE FLOPPY DISK" it is true a use floppy with 1.72MB size.... i have use it for Five years since v1.03 and till now i couldn't find a replacement.. i dare anyone who could.. Five years is not good.. it is perfect.. some features i like: 1- reading >350 formats 2- writing >45 formats (you can save very powerful one's) 3- converting. (normal and sequence) 4- screen capture. 5- hex viewing. 6- multilanguage (>38 one) 7- printing. 8- contact sheet making (in HTML...) 9- changing wallpaper 10- BEST ONE is costs.."F.R.E.E..W.A.R.E".. and beware of the upcoming v1.30..

NYCgreen reviewed v1.20 on Jul 5, 2001

Completely superior freeware. Why would anyone want to pay for ACDSee when XnView is free and just as useful!? Huh?!

maadjordan reviewed v1.19 on May 16, 2001

It is unbeleivable graphic tool, very powerful, i could call it Freeware ACDSee but i can't. It is much better..
i use for viewing, reading, writing, browsing, slideshowing, ... and it is more compact than irfanview (it is less than 2Mb). Irfan view exceeds 2MB limit.. i have use it for three years since v1.03 and till now i couldn't find a replacement.. i dare anyone who could.. three years is not good.. it is perfect..
some features i like:
1- reading >200 formats
2- writing >40 formats (you can save very powerful one's)
3- converting. (normal and sequence)
4- screen capture.
5- hex viewing.
6- multilanguage (>15 one)
7- printing.
8- contact sheet making (in HTML...)
9- changing wallpaper
10- BEST ONE "F.R.E.E..W.A.R.E"

cman21 reviewed v1.19 on May 16, 2001

ahh man. What a total POS.. Dont get this bull sh*t of a program. The guy who made this is a newb

lecatpuke reviewed v1.19 on May 16, 2001

Rofl.. I would be upset for wasting my time on it if I didn't notice that you can't even uncheck certain option boxes =) Looks like someone got happy with VC++ and a multimedia tutorial..

reidyn reviewed v1.19 on May 16, 2001

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!!!! April 1 was a month and a half ago.

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