XnView MP — The Complete Guide: Browse and Batch-Convert Images in More Than 500 Formats
XnView MP is an image viewer and manager for Windows, macOS and Linux that reads more than 500 formats, including RAW, HEIC, TIFF and PDF. It suits organising archives of site and inspection photos and converting them to a consistent format before they go into a report.
XnView MP
XnSoft
A cross-platform image browser and batch converter supporting more than 500 formats, including RAW and HEIC.
Get it from the vendorWhat you get
- Wide format support — including HEIC from phones and RAW from cameras.
- Thumbnail browsing — a quick overview of a whole folder.
- Image comparison — side by side, for example before and after a repair.
- Batch convert and rename — hundreds of files in one operation.
- Metadata editing — descriptions and keywords for later search.
Licence: who may use it for free
XnView MP is free for private or educational use, including non-profit organisations. Use in a company — which includes an engineering office or a contractor — requires a paid licence, from EUR 29 for a single user with volume discounts. Students can use it free for their studies; an office needs to buy a licence or choose an open alternative.
Related tools
For a fast Windows viewer under similar licence terms — IrfanView. For open-source batch conversion, free for businesses too — Converseen or ImageMagick. For advanced editing — GIMP.
IrfanView
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A fast image viewer with batch convert, resize and rename — for sets of site photos and scanned drawings.
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Converseen
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Convert and resize hundreds of images at once — prepare site photos and figures for reports, including PDF to images.
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ImageMagick
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A command-line suite for processing and converting images in more than 200 formats — automate resizing, cropping and conversion.
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GIMP
GIMP team
Advanced image editing — site photos, perspective correction, marking defects and preparing images for reports.
Get it from the vendorThe bottom line
XnView MP is a cross-platform image manager with very broad format support — free for study and private use, paid for business use.