imv-rs - simple image viewer

imv-rs is a small, no-bullshit image viewer written in Rust using egui and image.

This whole thing started when the original imv began breaking apart - dependencies got old, stuff wouldn’t compile, and Arch dropped FreeImage. Rebuilding it turned into a pain, so I just made my own.

Install

AUR

paru -S imv-rs-bin

yay -S imv-rs-bin

Source

git clone https://github.com/ioalexander/imv-rs
cd imv-rs
cargo build --release

Usage

• H or ← - Go to previous file
• L or → - Go to next file

What works out of the box

• PNG
• JPG/JPEG
• WEBP
• GIF

Roadmap

• Animated WEBP
• Animated PNG
• Performance improvements for image decoding / async loading with status

No weird library setup, no fighting with ancient dependencies. Just build and run.

Why bother?

The original imv is great when it works - but getting it to build can feel like archaeology. imv-rs skips all that, thanks to Rust and it's portable binaries.