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Fast image viewer and photo editor for Linux. Mark up, annotate, crop, adjust colours and copy text from images (OCR). GTK 4 and libadwaita, fork of GNOME Loupe.
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GITHUB · launched Nov 8, 2026 · 17 upvotes (top 92%) · 0 views
Niche: photo editing and management software · 189 launches, 32 in the last 7 days ▲ +10% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- annotation
- appimage
- crop
- flatpak
- gnome
- gnome-app
- +14 more
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Could you build this?
Yes This is a fork of GNOME Loupe, an existing image viewer, and the added features (markup, crop, color adjustment, OCR via Tesseract) rely on established libraries. Building on GTK 4 and libadwaita is more involved but well documented.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 440 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #427 of 441 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 371 days after the earliest competitor.
- Peek · ph · 2026-09-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Image Viewer · ph · 2026-11-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Fast, Lightroom-compatible RAW photo editor for Linux and macOS · hn · 2026-09-30 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- OmaPhoto · github · 2026-09-26 · 217 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- ASCII pixel art editor for the terminal · hn · 2026-05-10 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- xuan · github · 2026-09-19 · 50 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- rawmakase · github · 2026-09-26 · 172 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- omaraw · github · 2026-10-03 · 25 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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