Apart from Picasa‘s indisputable first position among image viewers, there’s a very interesting competition in the Top Downloads list for this category on Softonic. Two of the most powerful candidates are FastStone Image Viewer and XnView, two popular image viewers that share many features but also have certain differences. Let’s analyse both of them in depth.
When launching both programs, the first noticeable difference is their interface. Whilst XnView looks very much like Windows Explorer, with a tree-like structure on the left and the selected folder’s contents on the right, FastStone Image Viewer uses a neatly designed interface that you can customize with skins. Both programs use thumbnails to display photos and ALT text windows to show detailed information about each picture.
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