atanunq/viu

Health v2 · maintenance only

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3265 stars · 75 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Viu is a small command-line image viewer written in Rust that displays images directly in the terminal. It natively supports the iTerm2 and Kitty graphics protocols, with a fallback to Unicode half blocks and truecolor/ansi256 output.

Use cases

• view images from the terminal
• preview images over ssh without a gui
• play animated gifs in the terminal
• quickly check an image file while working in the shell
• pipe image data from stdin to view it
• resize images to custom dimensions in terminal output

When to choose

• you work primarily in the terminal or over ssh and want to view images without leaving the shell
• you use a terminal that supports the Kitty or iTerm graphics protocols for high-quality rendering
• you want a lightweight, fast, single-binary image viewer written in Rust

When to avoid

• you need a full graphical image viewer with zoom, pan, and editing features
• your terminal supports neither Kitty, iTerm, nor Sixel protocols and half-block rendering quality is insufficient
• you need to view very large image collections with thumbnail browsing

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

image-processing cli media developer-tools windows cli cross-platform image-viewer terminal kitty-graphics-protocol iterm gif rust command-line linux macos

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