Loupe (software)

Loupe, also known as Image Viewer, is an image viewer created for the GNOME desktop environment. It first appeared on December 26, 2020. With the GNOME 45 update, Loupe became GNOME's default image viewer, replacing Eye of GNOME.

Like its predecessor, Loupe offers various options for viewing images. These include standard options such as zooming, rotation, and transparency. Other features include touchscreen support, metadata info, and sandboxed decoding.

Image format support
Currently, Loupe supports all the formats that  does. These are:


 * AVIF
 * BMP
 * DDS
 * farbfeld (by suckless)
 * QOI
 * GIF
 * HEIC
 * ICO
 * JPEG
 * JPEG XL
 * OpenEXR
 * PNG
 * PNM
 * SVG
 * TGA
 * TIFF
 * WebP

Development
Loupe is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0. Written in the Rust programming language, it relies on, an image decoding crate.