LitePhotos
Your photo folders, as albums.
A fast native photo and video viewer for Linux. Every folder becomes an album, thumbnails load in the background from the standard cache, and videos in almost any format play in mpv.
2026
Summer
Athens
2025
Family
Hiking
What it does
Folders are albums
No import and no library database: browse the folders you already have.
Every format
JPEG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, AVIF and videos ffmpeg can read, rotated using EXIF.
Quick viewer
Arrow keys, Home and End, double-click to open in your default app.
Light on resources
No WebKit, no Electron, thumbnails shared with your file manager.
Made for
Anyone with years of photos in folders who wants a quick way to look through them.
Pricing
Free.
Built on NexusLayer
LitePhotos is designed, built and operated by NexusLayer. Here is what it runs on.
- Native GTK4A single Python file on GTK4 and libadwaita that follows the system theme.