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Independent developer. Small, hand-written software, built to be quick and to stay out of your way.

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QuickImageViewer displaying a photograph with a thumbnail strip along the bottom

QuickImageViewer

Windows 10 & 11 · free

A fast image viewer, hand-written in C++ against Win32 and Direct2D with no UI framework underneath it. It opens in the time it takes to let go of the mouse button, reads 49 formats, and has 224 keyboard shortcuts for people who would rather not reach for the mouse at all.

C++Win32 Direct2DAGPL
qIV Remote running on an Android phone in landscape, showing the remote control screen

qIV Remote

Android 13+ · closed testing

Turns a phone into a remote control, a second screen and a photo frame for QuickImageViewer, over your own network. Next, previous, slideshow, zoom, a live preview of what the desktop is showing, and a fuzzy find that opens a picture when you type part of its filename.

AndroidJava TLSNo ads

Testers wanted

qIV Remote needs testers for fourteen days

Google will not let a new app go public until a group of people has tested it for two weeks, so the Play listing stays invisible to anyone who has not joined the test. You need an Android phone on Android 13 or newer, and the same Google account for all three steps.

  1. Join the group: groups.google.com/g/qiv-remote-testers
  2. Open this link on the phone and tap Become a tester
  3. Install from Google Play, and keep it installed for fourteen days

Joining the group alone does not enrol you — step two is what does, and it is the step people skip. You do not need a Windows PC to try it: the app has a demo mode that runs every screen without connecting to anything.

Support the work

QuickImageViewer is free, and stays free

There is no paid tier and nothing behind a wall. If it saves you time and you would like to put something back, sponsorship is what buys the hours — it does not buy features, because there are no paid ones to buy.