When comparing Imagine: Image & Animation Viewer for Windows vs XnView, the Slant community recommends XnView for most people. In the question“What are the best image viewers for Windows?” XnView is ranked 3rd while Imagine: Image & Animation Viewer for Windows is ranked 6th.
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Pros
Pro Supports over 500 image formats
Pro Includes simple editing tools
Typical image editing tools are included. For instance, there are tools for color and size manipulation, several filters and effects.
Pro Available for macOS, Linux and Windows
Pro Easy redate and view configuration
Pro Compare images side-by-side
To delete blurry phone pics, etc.
Pro Multi-lingual
XnView speaks over 30 languages.
Pro Portable version for Windows available
Cons
Con Unsigned and encrypted executable installer
On last several versions exe installer is not signed and is encrypted [which means user cannot unpack and verify content of the executable], so it's a potential high risk for devices.
Con Very poor quality and very invazive on windows 10
Convert all images to 8bit rgb
[not suport 16bit or 32bit, cmyk, Lab, multichannel] so you never be able to see real original image, you only see the result of conversion...on windows 10 it enforced self promotion to default app for every type/format of image...
Con No Dark mode
Con No custom installation - if you need i.e. a language package, you need to install the full version
Con Free only for private use
For use in a company 1 license starts at 26 EUR.
Con Doesn't show movies on phone in correct position
Some of mp4 files shows in upside down position.