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pwall

pwall is an image viewer, available on Linux.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

At a glance

All of pwall is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (GPL-2.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • Commercial use allowed

Weaknesses

  • Few recent updates

About

pwall is modern style photo/video viewer and organizer. It shows the folders of your photos/videos main directory in the left pane and a photowall in the right. The photowall is a scrolling panel of square thumbnails giving a preview of each photo/video. Loading and unloading of this scrolling panel is made dynamicaly, viewing page by viewing page like smartphones do. It also allows you to have basics management of photos/videos (change dates, copy a group of photos to another directory, delete, share, get GPS data...). Clicking on a photo opens it in fullscreen mode. You can continue your navigation in this mode with left and right keys. I use it as an alternative to Shotwell.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

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  • Last technical check: 8 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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