Oculante
Oculante is a free, open-source image editor for Windows, macOS and Linux. A fast and simple image viewer / editor for many operating systems. It has 1,688 GitHub stars and is released under the MIT license. Its source code is on GitHub at woelper/oculante.
- Linux
- macOS
- Windows
- BSD
- Image editing & photo
- Actively maintained
About Oculante
A no-nonsense hardware-accelerated image viewer Oculante's vision is to be a fast, unobtrusive, portable image viewer with a wide range of supported image formats while also offering image analysis and basic editing tools.
Install Oculante
Package names found in the project's README. Each links to its package page so you can check the publisher first.
flatpak install flathub io.github.woelper.OculanteAUR (Arch Linux)
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What is Oculante?
Oculante is a free, open-source image editor for Windows, macOS and Linux. A fast and simple image viewer / editor for many operating systems. It has 1,688 GitHub stars and is released under the MIT license. Its source code is on GitHub at woelper/oculante.
Is Oculante free and open source?
Yes. Oculante's source code is public on GitHub under the MIT license, which is OSI-approved or FSF-free, so you can use, copy and change it for free.
How do I install Oculante?
Flathub: flatpak install flathub io.github.woelper.Oculante and the AUR package oculante-git. The commands are on this page. Installers are also on its GitHub Releases page (latest: 0.9.6).
Is Oculante still maintained?
The repository's most recent commit was on Oct 5, 2026. appsgit only lists apps whose repository had a commit in the last six months.