# Oculante (open-source image editor)

> 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.

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.

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/woelper/oculante |
| Platforms | Linux, macOS, Windows, BSD |
| Interface | desktop GUI |
| GitHub stars | 1,688 |
| License | MIT (open source) |
| Replaces | n/a |
| Language | Rust |
| Website | none listed |
| Official | no |
| Category | Image editing & photo |
| Latest release | 0.9.6 (Oct 5, 2026) |
| Last commit | Oct 5, 2026 |

## Install

### Flathub (Linux)

```sh
flatpak install flathub io.github.woelper.Oculante
```

Package page: https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.woelper.Oculante

### AUR (Arch Linux)

Package page: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/oculante-git

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