Gwenview
Quick, plain image viewer from the KDE project, with basic cropping, resizing, rotating and annotation.
Our verdict
Gwenview is the double-click-a-picture program for KDE Plasma systems, and it is the closest match to Windows Photos for people who only want to look at their pictures rather than organise them.
You point it at a folder and it shows you thumbnails, then full-screen images you can move through with the arrow keys. It rotates, crops, resizes and lets you draw simple shapes and text on an image, and it saves the change back to the file. That is the whole job it sets out to do.
If you want albums, tags and face recognition, use digiKam instead. If you want to retouch a photo properly, use GIMP or Krita. Gwenview sits underneath both of those as the thing that just opens a picture.
What's good
- Opens instantly and flips through a folder of pictures without fuss
- Already installed on KDE Plasma systems like Kubuntu and Fedora KDE
- Handles simple jobs in place, such as rotating, cropping and resizing
- Free and open source, with nothing to sign up for
What to know first
- Not a photo editor, so anything beyond a crop needs another program
- No photo library, tagging or face recognition
- Looks slightly out of place on GNOME desktops like standard Ubuntu
The details
- Cost
- Free
- Open source
- Yes (GPL-2.0+)
- How you install it
- App store (Flatpak), App store (Snap), Built-in app store
Windows apps it can replace
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