When comparing Imagine: Image & Animation Viewer for Windows vs ACDSee, the Slant community recommends Imagine: Image & Animation Viewer for Windows for most people. In the question“What are the best image viewers for Windows?” Imagine: Image & Animation Viewer for Windows is ranked 6th while ACDSee is ranked 11th.
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Pros
Pro Dark style theme
ACDSee has a nice dark style theme.
Pro Very fast image reader
ACDSee reads the images (jpgs) extremely fast. It displays them very fast, too.
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 No face recognition
ACDSee doesn't allow you to set face recognition to files. It also doesn't read already recognized faces. Metadata for faces aren't shown.