IrfanView
If you are looking for IrfanView, you have come to the right place. We explain what IrfanView is and point you to the official download.
What is IrfanView?
IrfanView is a free software that was independently developed by Irfan Skiljan, a Bosnian software engineer who was living in Vienna. IrfanView was first released in 1996 and has since gained a cult following among Windows users, renowned for being lightweight, free, and generally performing faster than any other third-party or Windows-default image-viewing application then and now. IrfanView’s features include the ability to play and support a wide variety of file formats, including some video files, plus some limited image editing and painting capabilities. IrfanView is mainly a Windows-only application but can be run on other operating systems using Wine (for Linux) and WineBottler (Mac OS X). There is a commercial, paid version that offers more features.
IrfanView’s small size makes it the preferred image-viewing program of most Windows users; it only occupies about 10 MB even with all plugins installed, and its vanilla version only reaches up to 1.6 MB. This translates to a lightning-fast performance, having a very small memory footprint. Like most modern image-viewers, IrfanView can create slideshows from a specific folder with your custom sorting rules, but unlike others that only feature still images, IrfanView can also include supported video files as well.
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Download IrfanView (external link)
File types supported by IrfanView
Our users primarily use IrfanView to open these file types:
- ACR
- AIF
- ANI
- ASF
- AU
- AVI
- B3D
- BMP
- CAM
- CLP
- CR2
- CRW
- CUR
- DCM
- DCX
- DDS
- DIB
- DJVU
- DXF
- ECW
- EMF
- EPS
- EXR
- FLV
- FPX
- FSH
- G3
- GIF
- GSM
- HDP
- ICL
- ICO
- IFF
- IMA
- IMG
- IW44
- J2K
- JLS
- JNG
- JP2
- JPC
- JPE
- JPEG
- JPF
- JPG
- JPM
- JXR
- KDC
- LBM
- LDF
- LWF
- MED
- MID
- MNG
- MOV
- MPE
- MPEG
- MPG
- NGG
- NLM
- NOL
- OGG
- PBM
- PCD
- PCX
- PGM
- PNG
- PPM
- PS
- PSD
- PSP
- RA
- RAS
- RAW
- RGB
- RLE
- RMI
- RW2
- SFF
- SFW
- SGI
- SID
- SND
- SPL
- SUN
- SWF
- TGA
- TIF
- TIFF
- TTF
- WAV
- WBMP
- WDP
- WEBP
- WMA
- WMF
- WMV
- XBM
- XPM
Some users also use IrfanView to open these file types:
About file types supported by IrfanView
File.org aims to be the go-to resource for file type- and related software information. We spend countless hours researching various file formats and software that can open, convert, create or otherwise work with those files.
If you have additional information about which types of files IrfanView can process, please do get in touch - we would love hearing from you.
Last updated: : December 22, 2023