IrfanView is a fast, lightweight, and innovative FREEWARE image viewer for Windows, designed to be simple enough for beginners yet powerful enough for professional users. It features impressive performance and broad format compatibility, making it a leading lightweight Windows image viewer with efficient batch processing.
IrfanView offers broad format compatibility, supporting BMP, DIB, JPEG, GIF, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, multipage TIFF, and TGA, with more formats available through plugins. Its speed and efficiency make everyday image viewing and editing quick and effortless.
The program includes essential features such as drag-and-drop support, directory viewing, TWAIN compatibility for scanners, slide shows, batch conversion, and editing tools like cropping, color depth adjustment, blur, and sharpen. These tools help users manage and enhance images with ease.
Unlike other viewers that mimic existing software, IrfanView focuses on delivering original, practical features that stand out. Its ongoing development emphasizes creativity, stability, and performance, offering a unique experience that continues to set it apart from imitators.
Some IrfanView Features:
- 32-bit and 64-bit versions
- Many supported file formats (https://www.irfanview.com/main_formats.htm)
- Multi-language support
- Thumbnail/preview option
- Slideshow (save slideshow as EXE/SCR or burn it to a CD)
- Show EXIF/IPTC/Comment text in Slideshow/Fullscreen, etc.
- Support for Adobe Photoshop Filters
- Drag and drop support
- Fast directory view (moving through the directory)
- Batch conversion (with image processing)
- Email option
- Multimedia player
- Print option
- Change color depth
- Scan (batch scan) support
- Cut/crop
- IPTC editing
- Effects (Sharpen, Blur, Adobe 8BF, Filter Factory, Filters Unlimited, etc.)
- Capturing
- Extract icons from EXE/DLL/ICLs
- Lossless JPG rotation
- Many hotkeys
- Many command-line options
- Only one EXE-File, no DLLs, no Shareware messages like “I Agree” or “Evaluation expired.”
- No registry changes without user action/permission!
- Many plug-ins
- and much more
What's New in IrfanView 4.75 (2026-05-15):
- Many new transition effects for Fullscreen/Slideshow mode (Properties->FS)
- New feature in Slideshow dialog: Set custom text for input files
- New effect in Effects Browser dialog: Blinds
- New option in Paint dialog: Draw rectangle with round corners
- Paint dialog: Drawing with the right mouse button (Line, Arrow, Rect, Ellipse)
- Color controls in dialogs can use the right mouse click to copy/paste the color
- New option in Edit Palette dialog: Use CTRL to select/edit multiple colors
- Option to disable FS/Slideshow exit with unused keys (Properties->Misc)
- New hotkeys: Num-Pad numbers 1-9 = scroll image to edges (5 = center)
- Support for EXIF data in PNG files (EXIF dialog, “eXIf” chunk)
Official Homepage – https://www.irfanview.com
Supported Operating Systems: Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 11.
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Size: 3.43 MB
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