Vipsdisp

Image viewer

org.libvips.vipsdisp

Vipsdisp can display huge (many, many gigabyte) images quickly and without using much memory. As well as the usual PNG, JPG, TIF, PDF, SVG, WEBP, JP2, JXL, QOI and GIF, it supports many scientific and technical image formats, including SVS, MRXS, OpenEXR, FITS, Matlab, NIfTI, Analyze, and PFM. It supports and translates HDR metadata between JPG, PNG, AVIF and JXL, though there's no HDR display yet. Vipsdisp supports pixel types from 1 bit mono to 128-bit double precision complex, you can convert image formats, it support copy-paste and drag-drop, and it has a range of useful visualisation tools and display modes. vipsdisp includes a very simple "paintbox" you can use to annotate images. It can paint on images in all these numeric formats.

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Screenshots

Visualization tools let you explore technical images

Save as lets you change image formats, and supports features like image pyramids

Animated images with alpha channels are also supported

A simple paintbox lets you annotate images

HDR metadata is loaded and saved (though not yet displayed)

Observed history

App	Change	Version	When ↓
Vipsdispjcupitt	updated	`4.2.0`	28d ago17 Sept 2026

Upstream releases

Release notes supplied by the developer. These dates are not Flathub package publication times.

4.2.017 Sept 2026

This release is based on the latest nip4 code for lots of useful features, speedups and bugfixes. The big one is the new paintbox (see View > Paintbox), a simple tool for annotating images, but there's also support for QOI, PNGA, and HDR metadata.

4.1.419 Apr 2026

Disable file format limit checks, update runtime to 50, improve directory navigation sort order.

4.1.317 Dec 2025

This version fixes load cancel and adds UltraHDR and camera RAW support.

4.1.22 Aug 2025

This adds an icon to the Windows build.