Linux app, Linux
LitePhotos
A fast, native photo and video viewer for Linux.
LitePhotos presents every folder as an album, with thumbnails generated in the background from the standard system cache. It supports modern image formats and plays almost any video through mpv, without importing anything into a library.
Your photo folders, as albums.
Browse the folders that already exist.
JPEG, HEIC, AVIF, WebP and common video formats.
No WebKit and no Electron.
What LitePhotos does.
A fast native photo and video viewer for Linux. Every folder becomes an album, thumbnails load in the background from the standard cache, and videos in almost any format play in mpv.
Folders are albums
No import and no library database: browse the folders you already have.
Every format
JPEG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, AVIF and videos ffmpeg can read, rotated using EXIF.
Quick viewer
Arrow keys, Home and End, double-click to open in your default app.
Light on resources
No WebKit, no Electron, thumbnails shared with your file manager.
Privacy. Runs entirely offline. No telemetry.
At a glance.
Designed for
Anyone with years of photos in folders who wants a quick way to look through them.
Pricing
Free.
Available on
Linux
Built on the layer
- Native GTK4A single Python file on GTK4 and libadwaita that follows the system theme.
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