# Ruben2776/PicView

Fast, free and customizable picture viewer

Repository: https://github.com/Ruben2776/PicView
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/picview
Homepage: https://picview.org
Language: C#
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: image-viewer, convert-images, picture-viewer, image-gallery, desktop-app, csharp, windows, dotnet, comics-reader, batch-processing, avalonia, xaml, desktop, gui, mvvm, macos-app, reactive-programming
Last push: 2026-08-26T14:53:03+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 99/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 99, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3509, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 9, "gap_med": 18.0, "n_releases_24m": 27}
- flags: no_license, no_readme
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3487, forks 188 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:06.974642+00:00)

## What it is
PicView is a fast, free, and customizable image viewer for Windows 10/11 and macOS built with C# and Avalonia. It supports a wide range of image formats including animated WEBP/GIF, SVG, AVIF, HEIC, PSD, and comic book archives, with features like EXIF viewing, lossless compression, batch resizing, and gallery browsing.

## Use cases
- view images quickly on windows or macos
- read comic book archives like cbr and cbz
- batch resize or convert images
- view exif metadata and gps info of photos
- losslessly compress images
- browse images inside zip or rar archives
- customize a minimal distraction-free image viewer ui

## When to choose
- you need a fast, lightweight, portable image viewer with no tracking
- you want built-in support for modern formats like webp, avif, heic, and svg
- you read comics or view images stored in archives
- you need basic editing tools like compression, resizing, and renaming without a full editor

## When to avoid
- you need advanced photo editing or raw development features
- you require a viewer on linux
- you need deep workflow integration with professional photo management suites

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: image-processing, gui
- domain: image-processing, desktop-applications, media, photography
- platform: windows, cross-platform, dotnet
- tags: image-viewer, comic-reader, avalonia, csharp, batch-processing, exif, archive-viewing, mvvm, macos, desktop

## Member repositories
- Ruben2776/PicView (main) score 99

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:06.974642+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:36:07.305312+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - homepage: https://picview.org (fetched 2026-08-29T09:30:06.392682+00:00, sha 69a17089b75d)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.