View at full speed
Open a folder and flip through it with the arrow keys. Images are decoded ahead of you, so the next one is already loaded before you ask for it.
Fully local · works offline
Photoera image viewer
A fast image viewer with just enough editing built in.
Windows 10 / 11 · No sign-up, no watermark
Original
Edited
6000 × 4000 · 24 MP
Crop
Export
Compare a grade before you commit to it. Nothing touches the file until you export.
Windows 10 / 11
40 MP images open in a blink
JPEG · PNG · WebP · HEIC · RAW · SVG
Free, no watermark, no account
What it does
Look, then fix — without opening two apps
Most viewers stop at viewing, and most editors take half a minute to load. Photoera does both in the same window, at the same speed.
Edit just enough
Crop, straighten, rotate, resize, fix exposure and colour, then export. The handful of tools a viewer should have had all along.
Compare before you commit
Hold a key to flash the original, or split the frame to see both at once. Your file is rewritten only when you say so.
Under the hood
Small things that add up
Photoera is deliberately narrow. It does a handful of things well instead of everything badly.
Formats you actually keep
JPEG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, AVIF, GIF, SVG, TIFF, BMP and common camera RAW, plus PSD for viewing. One window, no plugin hunt.
Non-destructive by default
Every adjustment is a step in a stack you can reorder, tweak or reset. Nothing is baked into the pixels until export.
Keyboard first, mouse too
Arrow keys, space to fit, wheel to zoom, drag to pan — and every one of them remappable.
Colour and metadata kept
Embedded ICC profiles are respected and EXIF, IPTC and XMP are readable, so an image looks the way it was shot.
How it works
Three steps, no settings
1
Drop it in
Drag a few images or a whole folder onto the window. It opens on the spot.
F12
Flip through
Arrow keys move image to image, the wheel zooms, space fits it back to the window.
3
Fix and export
Crop, adjust, compare, then write out JPEG, PNG or WebP at the quality you pick.
Performance
Fast enough to forget it's there
Speed is the whole point of a viewer. Photoera keeps decoding off the interface thread and keeps its cache ahead of where you are looking, so the next image is already waiting.
0.3s
to open a 40 MP JPEG
100MP
stays smooth to pan and zoom
60fps
while scrolling a folder at full size
0bytes
uploaded to a server, ever
FAQ
Questions people ask
Is Photoera free?
Yes. Viewing and editing are free, there is no watermark, and there is no account to create.
Do my photos go to a server?
No. Every image is opened, edited and saved on your own machine. Photoera keeps working with the network switched off entirely.
Which formats can it open?
JPEG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, AVIF, GIF, SVG, TIFF, BMP and ICO, plus the common camera RAW formats and PSD for viewing.
Does editing overwrite my original?
Not unless you ask it to. Adjustments live in memory and are only written out when you export, so the file on disk stays exactly as it was.
Can I process a whole folder at once?
Yes. Select several files, apply a crop, rotation, resize or a format conversion, and export them all in one pass.
Which version of Windows is supported?
Windows 10 and 11. Photoera ships as a single .exe installer — download it and run it.
Open one image and see
Install it, drop in a folder, and notice you never once waited for a loading spinner.
Windows 10 / 11 · Free, no watermark