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QuickView

A blazingly fast, lightweight image viewer for Windows powered by Direct2D and SIMD.

  • Completely free
  • Windows
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

QuickView is an image viewer, available on Windows.

Features described in its GitHub repository and in its Winget manifest: hardware acceleration and portable version without installation.

File formats mentioned: WEBP, JPEG, AVIF and HEIC.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “The fastest Direct2D-powered image viewer for Windows.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “Features multi-threaded JXL/AVIF decoding, GPU acceleration, and a borderless geek UI.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “Features include HDR display support, portable mode, and GPU-accelerated rendering.” — Winget, 10 November 2026

At a glance

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

Its licence (GPL-3.0) 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
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from GitHub (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use) —
  • Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 6 November 2026
  • Description from github.com — Manifeste Winget (MIT)

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