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HawkView is a free, fast image viewer for Windows. Open RAW, HEIC, AVIF, JPEG XL, WebP and more instantly, then edit, convert and present. See every detail.
Hi Product Hunt! 👋
I'm David, the solo maker behind HawkView.
I built it because every image viewer I tried was either bloated, slow on big photos, or hid the details I actually wanted - resolution, EXIF, GPS, real colors. I wanted something instant, clean, and genuinely useful.
HawkView is a single ~60 MB app (no installers full of DLLs, no background services) that:
- ⚡ Opens even huge images instantly (GPU tiling for very large files)
- 🖼️ Handles modern + classic formats: JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, JPEG XL, animated GIF/APNG/WebP, TIFF, BMP, ICO, and more
- ✂️ Edits in place: crop + straighten, rotate (lossless for JPEG), save-as with quality control
- 🎞️ Slideshows with GPU transitions + Ken Burns + audio, and one-click export to MP4
- 🗺️ Reads & edits metadata (EXIF/IPTC) and shows photo locations on a map
- 🌗 Dark/light themes, a clean frameless UI, customizable toolbar, drag & drop, "set as wallpaper"
It's **free for personal use**; a paid license covers professional/commercial use (just reach out via the site).
I'd love your honest feedback - what's missing, what feels off, what you'd want next. I'm reading every comment today. 🙏
Thanks for checking it out!
- David
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About HawkView on Product Hunt
“The fast image viewer that shows every detail”
HawkView was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #115 on the daily leaderboard. HawkView is a free, fast image viewer for Windows. Open RAW, HEIC, AVIF, JPEG XL, WebP and more instantly, then edit, convert and present. See every detail.
HawkView was featured in Windows (12.7k followers), Design Tools (260.7k followers) and Photography (143k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 53.8k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted HawkView?
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