Phototheca Alternatives

Back up unlimited photos and videos for free, up to 16MP and 1080p HD with Google Photos. The application and service is provided by Google and works on your phone, tablet or computer.

Apple Photos is an app native to the macOS and iOS eco system. The application comes pre-installed with all Macintosh computers, iPhones and iPads. With Apple Photos you can manage, store and browse all your photos in a neat application.

Phiewer is an image viewer specifically designed for macOS, it provides an easy and fast way to view your images, videos and even audio files. Phiewer features a folder-based layout that makes it easy to discover, manage and browse your media. It supports a vast amount of image formats including png, jpg, bmp, gif, tiff, heif, heic, .svg, camera RAW: crw, cr2, dng, eip, erf, nef, nrw, obm, orf, pef, raw and more. As for video and audio, Phiewer support opus, weba, webm, ogg, ogm, oga, wav, mp3 and flac audio formats and mp4, m4v, m4u, m4a, mkv and mov video formats.

PhotoPrism is a free and open-source server-based application for browsing, organizing and sharing your personal photo collection. PhotoPrism makes use of the latest technologies to automatically tag and find pictures without getting in your way. With PhotoPrism, you can say goodbye to solutions that force you to upload your visual memories to the cloud with big tech cloud providers.

The classic Eye of GNOME is the official and default image viewer for the free and open source desktop environment GNOME. The application comes bundled with GNOME and is in later releases known as Image Viewer. However, Eye of GNOME can be used in any Linux operating system or distribution. It also share many similarities with another official image viewer for GNOME called gThumb

gThumb is a free and open-source image viewer and Image organizer for the GNOME Desktop. The software can be used to view, orginize and edit BMP, GIF, ICO, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, XPM files. An importer tool is also include, it can be used for transferring photos from cameras. With the editing tool, photos can be rotated, flipped and cropped, or optimized for the right contrast ratio. gThumb is developed by the The GNOME Project and released under the GNU General Public License.

FastStone Image Viewer is a free image browser, converter and editor that supports common graphic formats such as BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO, TGA and raw files. FastStone Image Viewer is available for Microsoft Windows.

Windows Photo Viewer is an image viewer developed by Microsoft that was included with the Windows NT family of operating systems. Windows Photo Viewer was first iintroduced with Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 under its former name. It was temporarily replaced with Windows Photo Gallery in Windows Vista, but was resurfaced in Windows 7.

Xee³ Image Viewer is an streamlined and convenient image browser that allow you to manage your photos and rediscover old memmories. Xee³ Image Viewer share many similarities with macOS very own Preview app, the simplicity of the application makes it easy to browse the entire contents of folders and archives, move and copy image files quickly. The application supports most of the image formats commonly used today.