KingView
92 image formats, 36 archives, 40 RAWs —
fast and crisp with hardware acceleration.
Ultra-sharp, ultra-fast image viewer with accurate HDR
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92 Image Formats
JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, HEIC, JXL, PSD, EXR, SVG and more — 52 standard + 40 camera RAW formats, no codecs needed
True HDR
Real brightness on HDR displays. 10 HDR formats plus iPhone gain map (Ultra HDR) rendered accurately — best in class
Webtoon & Comics
Continuous webtoon strip, two-page view (solo cover, right-to-left), scan margin trim and spread split
36 Archive Formats
Browse ZIP, RAR, 7z, EGG, ALZ, CBZ/CBR and more without extracting — password archives supported, originals untouched
Powerful Decoding Engine
- Instant startup with two-stage display (thumbnail first, full image swap)
- 40 camera RAW formats (CR2/CR3, NEF, ARW, RAF, RW2, DNG …)
- 10 HDR formats + Apple/ISO gain map (iPhone HDR photos)
- Monitor ICC color management — accurate wide-gamut P3
- Parallel multithreaded decoding with preload cache (no UI blocking)
- Adaptive paging — every image actually shows even while holding the key
Multiple View Modes
- Fit window / original / fit width / fit height + upscale small images
- Webtoon mode (vertical strip, width 100%/640/760/800px)
- Two-page view (solo cover, right-to-left, smart pairing)
- Loupe — hold left button, always magnifies
- Zoom 5%–5000%, cursor-anchored zoom, edge-locked panning
- Slideshow (4 transitions, blurred backdrop, background music)
Image Processing & Adjustment
- Rotate (90°/10° steps, absolute angles), horizontal/vertical flip
- Live adjust — brightness, contrast, gamma, saturation, sharpen (non-destructive)
- Five interpolation modes (Nearest to High Quality Cubic + sharpen)
- Lossless crop — cut a region from JPEG with zero re-encoding
- Edit date & GPS metadata only — original backed up for 24 h
Intuitive Interface
- Dark main window with customizable title bar & background colors
- EXIF panel (Tab) + full-tag & XMP metadata window
- Explorer-style image browser — folder tree, archive browsing, multi-select
- Star rating culling — XMP sidecars, Lightroom-compatible, sort by rating
- GIF/APNG/WebP/AVIF/ugoira animation (0.25–4× speed, frame export)
- Full HiDPI support · UI in 20 languages
- Fully remappable shortcuts, mouse buttons, resume last position
Region Search · OCR · Photo Culling
- Ctrl+drag a region → instant Google Lens image search
- Crop & save — cut the region out of the original with zero quality loss
- Text layer (T) — select and copy text inside images (OCR)
- Rate ★1–5 and auto-advance — cull hundreds of shots in minutes (Lightroom-compatible XMP)
- Browser rating filter (*3), sort by rating, ★ badges on thumbnails
- Album folders — one Ins keystroke copies/moves to your picks folder
Keyboard Shortcuts
| Navigation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ← / → | Previous / Next image | Home / End | First / Last image |
| Mouse wheel | Previous / Next image | [ / ] | Previous / next archive or folder |
| Ctrl+PgUp / PgDn | Jump 10 forward / back | G / Enter | Image browser (separate window) |
| Zoom & Rotation | |||
| + / - | Zoom in / Zoom out | R / E | Rotate right / left 90° |
| Ctrl+Mouse wheel | Zoom in / Zoom out | H / V | Horizontal / Vertical flip |
| 0 | Reset zoom & position | Z | Reset zoom, rotation, flip and adjustments |
| View Modes | |||
| 1 ~ 4 | Fit / fill small / original / fit height | W | Webtoon strip mode |
| F | Fullscreen | Tab | EXIF panel |
| Tools & Files | |||
| Shift+G / Ctrl+Drag | Region select — Google Lens / copy / lossless crop | T | Select & copy text (OCR) |
| A | Live adjust (brightness · contrast · gamma · saturation · sharpen) | Alt+1~5 | Star rating ★1–★5 (auto-advances) |
| Ctrl+0~9 | Slideshow (number = interval in seconds) | Del / Ctrl+Z | Delete to recycle bin / undo delete |
| Ins / Shift+Ins | Send to album folder 1/2 | O | Open file |
Supported Image Formats
Standard
JPEG (.jpg .jpeg .jfif), PNG/APNG, BMP, GIF, TIFF, ICO, TGA, PCX, PNM, QOI, DDS
Next-Gen
WebP, AVIF, HEIC/HEIF, JPEG XL (.jxl), BPG, JPEG 2000, JPEG-XR, Ultra HDR JPEG, HDR PNG, OpenEXR, Radiance HDR
Professional
40 RAW formats — Canon (CR2, CR3, CRW), Nikon (NEF, NRW), Sony (ARW, SRF, SR2), Fujifilm (RAF), Olympus (ORF), Panasonic (RW2, RWL), Pentax (PEF, PTX), Samsung (SRW), Adobe (DNG), Hasselblad (3FR, FFF), Phase One (IIQ, CAP, EIP), Leaf (MOS), Sigma (X3F), Mamiya (MEF), Minolta (MRW), Epson (ERF), Kodak (DCR, KDC, K25) and more + PSD/PSB, SVG
Animation
Animated GIF, Animated WebP, APNG, AVIF sequence, ugoira (pixiv .ugoira)
Archives
ZIP/ZIPX, 7z, RAR, EGG, ALZ, TAR/GZ/BZ2/XZ/ZST, LZH, CAB, ISO, CBZ/CBR/CB7 — 36 formats (password supported)
System Requirements
OS
Windows 10 / 11 (x64)
License
Freeware (free for everyone)
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, KingView is completely free (freeware) for everyone — personal, business, and educational use. You can use it freely without purchasing any license.
KingView opens 92 formats out of the box — 52 standard plus 40 camera RAWs. JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, HEIC, JPEG XL, PSD, OpenEXR and SVG, plus 10 HDR formats and iPhone gain map (Ultra HDR).
Yes. 36 archive formats including ZIP, RAR, 7z, EGG, ALZ, TAR family and CBZ/CBR are browsed without extraction. Password archives are supported and archived images stay strictly read-only.
Webtoon mode (W key) joins every image of a folder or archive into one vertical strip. Parallel loading shows pages as they arrive, and you can pick the width (100%/640/760/800px) — ideal for webtoons and comic books.
Windows 10 and Windows 11 (64-bit) are supported.