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Vipsdisp

Vipsdisp is an image viewer, available on Linux.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

Vipsdisp is an image viewer, available on Linux.

File formats mentioned: PDF, SVG, PNG, WEBP, GIF and AVIF.

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
  • “Tiny libvips / gtk+4 image viewer” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

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

Its licence (MIT) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

About

Vipsdisp can display huge (many, many gigabyte) images quickly and without using much memory. As well as the usual PNG, JPG, TIF, PDF, SVG, WEBP, JP2, JXL, QOI and GIF, it supports many scientific and technical image formats, including SVS, MRXS, OpenEXR, FITS, Matlab, NIfTI, Analyze, and PFM. It supports and translates HDR metadata between JPG, PNG, AVIF and JXL, though there's no HDR display yet. Vipsdisp supports pixel types from 1 bit mono to 128-bit double precision complex, you can convert image formats, it support copy-paste and drag-drop, and it has a range of useful visualisation tools and display modes. vipsdisp includes a very simple "paintbox" you can use to annotate images. It can paint on images in all these numeric formats.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from GitHub (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use) —
  • Last technical check: 7 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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