User Reviews

  No fancy effects!  

• Interface: 4
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

No fancy effects, like Google Picasa. This one does the job with many options, and you can choose how it will start (windowed, full-screen or browser like). This was the only app I could found that allows me to always open image in 1:1 and use mouse scroll to really scroll the image (not zoom).

  Excellent program  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

This program, as far as I'm concerned is equal or better than what's on the market. It does everything that I like, to view photos.

  Powerful, efficient. easy, free...  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

FastStone Image Viewer instantly became one of my favorite programs. It has the features and power to do virtually everything I need to do with images but, more importantly, it is efficient and EASY to use. Since downloading this little software gem, that Adobe monster on my computer has seen little of me. Though you will not need it to accomplish most necessary tasks, it is well worth downloading and reading through the tutorial accessible under the "Help" menu. FastStone Image Viewer is definitely a keeper!

  Excellent viewer  

• Interface: 4
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

Well, this is another I have used for a long time now, although I noticed more lag with this than others like Xnview, etc... so I began to not use it so much. I haven't noticed a change in the lag but if it no longer did this, I would rate it a 5, however, I don't feel it's up there with others and gave up using it much. Although I feel it's close to a 5, I just can't squeeze that last star out for it, gotta go with 4.

  Excellent free software for raw support  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

This is one of the best freeware tools out there. It has an easy to use interface and is especially useful if you have need to handle a lot of RAW images and use Windows. Other great features include video support and ICC profile management.

  A portable version is provided  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

This viewer is so very good - I regard it as indispensable. The inbuilt file renamer is a gem. There is a portable version too, downloadable from FastStone Soft.

  Ok for most, i guess - but not me  

• Interface: 2
• Features: 2
• Ease of use: 1
• Value: 4
• Overall:

On my system, at least, I have found FastStone to be very sluggish and clunky. According to its SnapFiles score it obviously works for many others but . . . not for me.

  The greatest...  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 4
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

This program has beautiful interface and it is almost perfect. Almost because all those people who always want something more. I think it is the best. I use this on my desktop computer and FastStone MaxView on my laptop (It is small and it has basic options). I highly recommend it!

  One of the best  

• Interface: 4
• Features: 4
• Ease of use: 4
• Value: 5
• Overall:

The FastStone image viewer is one of the best if not the best freeware image viewers available. I have just completed testing all free viewers that I could find and a number of shareware ones as well. I found this viewer to be the best of all for our purpose. It hasn't blow up or created problems on any of our thin clients or PCs. It is compact and does what it says it can do. Which more than I can say about XnView and IrfanView and many others. Not to many bells and whistles but a solid performer that fits on thin clients. If FS would add IBMs IOCA formats and page segments to their list, then it would be a very viable alternative for IBM midrange and mainframe customers. And that's a whole lot of users..

  Best in class  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 4
• Value: 5
• Overall:

First, this is semi-freeware. After several months it'll pop up a screen asking if you want to donate any amount. You have the option of declining (but shouldn't). The program is slightly slow when loading a directory with hundreds of photos. You get not only a nice thumbnail but quick stats and a bigger preview when you click or arrow to the pic. Drag and drop to maintain your album. Press Enter or double-click a pic and you get into the real power--spend some time exploring. Press 2 for double size. 3 for triple size. Move your cursor to each edge of the screen for menus of things you can do. The crop and resize tools are sensational. Other effects are mostly very good to superb. Red-eye removal was okay. I wish some of the effects were on a right-mouse click but at least there are keyboard shortcuts. The more I use this program, the more I love it.

  Could be excellent program...  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 3
• Ease of use: 4
• Value: 5
• Overall:

... but there are a few very annoying bugs, I've reported them a long time ago however developers didn't bother neither to fix them nor reply to me. I love interface of FastStone, however one of those bugs (FastStone is unable to display into Pentax RAW files embedded JPEG images) is a showstopper for me :( Another annoying bug is very poor serialization of image viewing. Go to folder containing a lot of large JPEG files, even better RAW files and then quickly press Page Down for, let's say, 10 times. Now sit back and relax while FS loads images one by one instead of just jumping straight to eleventh image... Otherwise FS is very nice program and I can easily recommend to anyone who doesn't want to view JPEGs ebmedded into RAW files.

  No quicktime thumbnails  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 3
• Ease of use: 4
• Value: 4
• Overall:

Lovely interface, and generally excellent, but in the end it didn't do it for me as it doesn't preview QuickTime movie files from digital cameras. The equally free XnView does, so I use that instead.

  One of the very best  

• Interface: 4
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 4
• Value: 5
• Overall:

This image viewer is one of the very best. The design team should be giving themselves slaps on the back. Many kudos and thanks for making this viewer available for everyone by making it free. I gave it an A+ and would give it a AA++ if I could.

  Thank you to the developer...  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

...of this great program!!! Seems 49 people commented before me, and I just had to throw my hat in the pool and have my say. I wont repeat all the benefits of this fine program. You'll just have to download it and try it. I am SURE you wont regret it!! Lets not forget, this great work took time to create and unselfishly, the developer lets us use it. What a guy!! Thanks!!!

  Solid program  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 4
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

Great program; I prefer it over the other industry standard; has a very attractive interface and views most file formats.

  2 missing features  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 4
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

1. eats lots of memory: takes around 400MB of memory when the directory with around 2000 images opened. 2. when moving the file to another folder, it should show the destination image (if it exists) and allow options like : rename file if destination image exists, skip if destination image identical.. overall, a great product

  Great product  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

Great program easy to use got to get this one

  I fully agree with talossos  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

Talossos is quite right. I tested the FastStone Image Viewer/Xplorer2 combination and indeed found it to be ideal and very practical! ...

  Use this combo: xplorer2 + fsiv  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 4
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

Actually the best thing you can do is to work with the following two freeware programs together: xplorer2 http://zabkat.com/ and Faststone Image Viewer (FSIV). The interface of these two programs are quite similar (for browsing files) However FSIV can only show image files and will not show anything not related to image files, while xplorer2 will show EVERYTHING, all kinds of files and has a little preview screen in the lower left corner just like FSIV, what I really like is that you can do mirror browsing (which is great!) etc etc. xplorer2 has a sleek interface and has a very small footprint! Use it for a while and you are addicted. Now use xplorer2 for file browsing, and let FSIV be associated with all image extensions. So when you find an image file with xplorer2, just click on it and FSIV will open it. It works great, cause both programs are fast and light on resources. Just try it out! Let me know what you think afterwards!

  Faststone viewer rates an a+  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

I've used a lot of Image viewers through the years and I can honestly say FastStone Viewer rates extremely high! Judging by the 40+ reviews for this software, I'm not alone. If you want a a solid,feature rich, well thought out Thumbnail / Image viewer - look no further! Bravo!!

  My search stopped here  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

This is just an amazing piece of software. Can not believe it is free. Loaded with advanced features. The interface is outstanding and one of the most intuitive I've seen in years. Features available while in full screen mode are awesome. I also think the screen capture is better than most. Really a fun application.

  More than just a viewer!  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 4
• Value: 5
• Overall:

Very sophisticated package for the price ;-) - and so easy to use. Does much more than it says on the tin. Many thanks FastStone.

  Most valuable freeware program out there!  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

I've been using FastStone for a year now. Over the years I've used many other image viewers including Irfanview, ACDSee, ThumbsPlus, Windows Picture and Fax Viewer, and more.... FastStone blows all of them away. It has a great interface, great tools, it's fast, and the full screen mode is incredibly helpful. I have it associated with all of my image files, and I have it setup to open Photoshop when I need to do more advanced editing. With FastStone's feature set I find that I can do 90% of my image editing without having to even open Photoshop. I've also been impressed how the author is always adding new (and often very handy) features. Due to this it's definitely a program where you want to check for new versions often. I've installed FastStone on several of my friends and families computers, and all of them love it. In my opinion, no PC is complete without FastStone installed. It's absolutely indispensable.

  Great companion  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 4
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

I am a photographer and work a lot with images. Besides my main "digital dark room" programs - Gimp and Photompact - FSIV is a great image browser with an excellent array of features that in some cases, it is not worth to open the other two, as I can make the small adjustments with FSIV with very good results Great freeware program, no doubt.

  Excellent for common image files  

• Interface: 3
• Features: 4
• Ease of use: 4
• Value: 5
• Overall:

I was enjoying to use this program for many months to view and sort images. However every time I brows large size of images in TIFF, PDF, PSD or JPG in folders containing more than 20 images, it takes more much too long time to open compare to other programs. If the images are in regular JPG, the program is excellent in browsing and lightly editing files. I recommended this program to friends and they all like it.

  More than 2 thumbs  

• Interface: 3
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 4
• Value: 5
• Overall:

One of the greatest browsers out there. my first thought about the product was it can just view image files but i got sold when what i really needed was a viewer not like other viewers out there than can play every little thing no matter how large that file is, so with my work (computer graphics artist) i handle tons of images everyday and the hassle of viewing just the images amidst the flotsam of files is a must! hope they just fixed the drag and drop feature in the same window. but even without it it's keeper..i always carry a portable version of it on my usb key chain.

  Best app  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

Very good software easy to use Just get it.

  Throwing rocks?  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

I wish I could Throw Rocks this FAR! This should be called Neutron Deliverey! Open just about any thing with this program and FASTSTONE Opens it NOW!! Plus there is all the cool easy features to use.Convert files,Import programs, etc., But where is the watermark feature? ANYWAYS JUST GET IT!!

  Extremely useful program!  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

Rarely do you find a program that offers this much quality in freeware. I use it everyday to manage pictures for my online business. It does everything I need. Is better than many commercial programs I've seen. The interface is high quality and very intuitive and friendly to use. Editing, effects, resizing, compression, batch processing, watermarking...it's all here. You can even specify an external photo editor if you have some special editing needs that by chance FastStone won't deliver (although I can't think of many). Then all you have to do is click on the external editor and you're right there. This is one download I know you'll not regret. And it's free! No expiration or annoying ads, etc. I love it!

  Excellent replacement for acdsee  

• Interface: 4
• Features: 4
• Ease of use: 4
• Value: 5
• Overall:

This is an excellent software. However, I think following change might be helpful for use. 1. The preview area can be put in different location. 2. Remember what option I used for display -- detail, thumbnail or brief. 3. Make combine image possible, e.g., put 4 images into a 2*2 array and save as a new file so that I don't need other software to print photos. 4. Right the program start slower than [..] 3, especially after new installation. 5. Is that possible to find similar images in many folders? sometimes I changed the resolution or cropped the image and put into other place. Later on they are useless and it just take time to find them. 6. Is that more reasonable to use 1 as lossless conversion from any format to jp2? Right now it shows 10 and in the box it says 1000. A little confusing. 7. And if there is a preview for conversion it will be great. Anyway, this are just minors. I am glad I can uninstall the [..] now and enjoy the jp2 format.

  Great application, less than optimal renderin  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 4
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

It is a great application with an excellent user interface. It has space for improvement, nevertheless it does well what it claims. The image rendering is not optimal which is the major downside of it. It has however a smooth option that takes the image and re-renders it to smooth hard edges result of the image resize to screen. This smooth process always occurs _after_ the image has been fully loaded and displayed, which is, IMO, a bad thing. It should pre-load next and previous images and only show the image _after_ loaded and "smoothed". Other than that the application is extremely easy to use and with good performances. Oh, and of course is free!

  It's number one for viewers - simply the best  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

The best Image Viewer I have ever encountered ! Keep up with the excellent Job !

  Great utilitarian picture viewer!!!  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

Finally! Finally! Finally! A program that does what I need. This is a great program for setting Desktop Wallpaper, Resizing, and more. I love the full screen mode. Nothing but the picture and right clicking for redacts. Great work!!! Best "Program Viewer" out there! PERIOD.

  Image viewer surpasses the others  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

For the past 12 mths I have seen this program grow with the most useful functions - It is a real pleasure to use - Batch Sort-Rename-Reshape-Convert-Watermarks-Compare four Images on the screen. The features are many and are easy to use. It is far superior to [..] and many others. Ability to access all features by moving the mouse. I recommend this program to anyone who wants to View and sort their image collection and/or Photos from their Digital Camera. I particularly like the precise use of Cropping Batch Rename, Reshape, and Move to specified folder and the ease of transferring any Image to a Graphics program of my choice, make changes and then return to FastStone. An excellent program -Tim

  Prog doesn't make exif comments  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 4
• Ease of use: 4
• Value: 5
• Overall:

Agree,it's a really nice viewer,one of the best.Very comfortable to use Full Screen with popup menus,where you can jump to any picture you like and see all properties without leaving Full Screen. Modern look with several skins. But unfortunately it's missing an important (at least for me) feature: EXIF Comments. It can write only JPEG (Image) Comments but this type of comments are not readable by most other Progs. If you use only Faststone,it doesn't matter,but if you want to open the same image (with JPG comments already there) using, say, cam2pc, comments column will be empty. Strange enough that such a good Prog lacks it as all others [..] have.

  A must-have  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

I have FastStone Image Viewer set as my default image viewing program. In that way it works just like Windows' default Image and Fax Viewer application, but FastStone is SO much more powerful. One of my favorite features about FastStone is its batch resizing/renaming capabilities. For the beginner, FastStone's explorer interface may be a little confusing at first but it's easy to get used to. FastStone allows basic photo editing like red-eye reduction and sepia. For advanced picture editing I switch from FastStone to PhotoFiltre (also available here at SnapFiles). This program really is a must-have for every digital photographer, blogger, and web designer.

  Amazing! free but not lacking!  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

This is my first time writing a review...I am so impressed with the painless operation and features. I own Ulead Video Studio and used to use it for slide shows, but now FastStone beats it hands down. Best image organizer by far. Used Picasa2 and this even beats that. Great work!

  Great!  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

Because my English ain't so good, it is quite hard for me to find so much good words I'd like to say about FastStone. You can think as much as You know, and all these are true in my opinion. My ACDSee is gone forever. Thanks for a great app.

  Really excellent  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

I've been using it a while now and every update just seems to improve it,I think it's the best editor I've ever used.

  The end of my search  

• Interface: 4
• Features: 4
• Ease of use: 4
• Value: 5
• Overall:

For quite some time I've been wanting a way to compare similar images side by side while doing my initial edit after downloading from my memory cards. I decided to try the FastStone Image Viewer for that feature alone, and I was pleasantly surprised how much more it could do! I try out a lot of freeware programs, but usually end up keeping very few of them. This one is definitely a keeper!

  Step aside...  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

Step aside Paintshop Pro, you have just become my backup photo editor! This little piece of software is excellent. The ease of use and the amount of options are just the right amount for me, so far i like everything about it. Especially the fact that it's small and open/loads WAY faster than Paintshop. Smart choice if you're looking for an excellent FREE photo editor!

  The best one out there  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

I can't say enough about this program. The fact that it is free is amazing. The coolest thing is that the menus pop up when you move your curser to edge of the photo you are viewing. No other program does that. This program does it all.

  A beauty!  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 3
• Value: 5
• Overall:

Of all the many image management programs I tried, this is the one and only to use. It's fast, reliable, versatile. It is simply a joy to work with so many features. After months I still discover new possibilities. All other programs in this FastStone series are highly recommendable as well. It's true: the best things in life are free!

  Eats all memory in 10 seconds....256meg.  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 1
• Value: 5
• Overall:

Resources meter bottoms out completely in 10 seconds....hope the author fixes this memory hog problem...then I will recommend this super-cool program to anyone....I'm running a 1ghz amd with 256 megabytes ram...Win98SE....this program is too much of a memory-pig for now to recommend....other than that...this program is top of the hill.

  Faststone viewer  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

I have switched from about 4 other programs combined to just this one. It contains so many options that it has become my image explorer/management tool. The program is well laid out and easy to use. Excellent in ALL respects. I had one minor problem and reported it to the developer and he fixed it immediately. One of the 10 programs that MUST be installed on all my machines. I just love programs like this that give you so much all in one place.

  Awesome - all you need in a picture viewer  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 4
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

As a picture viewer, this program is awesome! I like the slideshow option with adjustable time-between-pictures setting (quickly replaced the now useless Windows XP "view as slideshow" option). I love the quick access to things by moving the mouse to the end of the screen. Excellent!! Superb!! The red-eye reduction is not as great as I had hoped, but this program is mainly for picture viewing anyway. Nice clear zoom ability. I really like the use of the mouse wheel as click to toggle views. I have tried ACDsee, Irfanview and others, but this program by far outbeats the rest and leaves them in the dust. I use Picasa to organize my photos and FastStone Viewer to view them. Wonderful combination of Freeware. Thank you guys for writing this program.

  One of the best freeware grafic viewers/tools  

• Interface: 4
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

Faststone Image Viewer beats all ! I've tried many viewers and its a very FAST program - compared to ex. ACDC. It comes with tons of extra features. My only improvement wish is a better keyboard usage - so that menu's can be accessed by the keyboard. When the software follow normal windows menu behavior - this program beats them all by several miles. Keep programming - you are GOOD. Jan, Denmark

  Faststone by name and by nature  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

I found this app. to live up to all the reviews and to my own demands. I have trialled a few free- and shareware products, however faststone gets top marks from me. from Aus

  95% of what i was looking for  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

Bloated, slow ACDSee has been removed from my computer. FastStone is almost everything I have been looking for in an image viewer and very little of what I never use. Thanks!

  Yes, it is excellent  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

I must say that for a free program FastStone is fantastic. Easy to use, good-looking, and many good features.

  Picasa? don't need it.  

• Interface: 4
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

A great image viewer that is much smaller in size than Picassa and has functions you would never expect on a free program. It's a hoot to fool around with and the kids love the slide shows. Only issue for me seems to be the way it handles my photoshop creations. Colors are distorted. All in all though I'd have to say this one tops all the viewers out there right now. Great app.

  Speechless  

• Interface: 4
• Features: 4
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

I can't believe this is freeware. Check out their other image processor too! It's just what I wanted. I used to use Adobe PS to manipulate my files - what a resource hog!. Now, I can run this program on my old 98 s.e. machines.

  Excellent  

• Interface: 4
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 4
• Value: 5
• Overall:

This is a very nice image viewer. Easy to use with good editing tools. If it had the same email features with resizing that Picasa has, it would be hard to beat. I also like 11view which is very comparable to this but with its own emailer. It's hard to pick a favourite between Faststone, 11view, and Picasa. They all have unique features. Install all three and enjoy them.

  The best there is...  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

This is by far the best image viewer I've come across. Tired of living with the ever-bloating and ever-more-expensive ACDSee, this one came as a huge relief to me. Try it. You won't be disappointed.

  Well .... not much missing  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 4
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

Fantastic software. difficult to understand how free soft can be so much better than commercial one (i am thinking acdsee which rapes you computer memory, disk space and for some, the wallet). This soft is "perfect" for normal use, it has lots of features (love the magnifier, extensive batch options,and other smart touches). It has intuitive interface, and it is fast and ... it is free. i have only used it for couple of hours! ;) my only grips: it crashes when i try to display histograms. and ... (a big but for me) it lacks support for RAW files. if only it could display RAW files (even embedded jpeg), it would blow the competition away, including irfanview (not even mentioning acdsee). Great work faststone team. keep pleasing us!! we will, for ever, be admirative! Dan

  Missing network neighborhood  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

Great software! We use it as a replacement for ACDSee... One missing thing: Network Neighborhood icon in top left navigator window.

  Response by software author  

Thanks! Now Network Neighborhood icon is added to new version 1.2

  A true chock to an image software addict  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

This one was a chock to me - I have invested in several good shareware image viewers, but it took me less than 24 hours and all was out of my machine. Perfect? Then it would not be that tomorrow - we always want more, but the full screen options is on a level that I would compare with 40 virgins in paradise (-: Seriously, this software is so far ahead of the competition that I would not only consider myself to become a beta tester, but a alpha tester - being a software reviewer for some years that should be a statement in itself. The fact that it's a true freeware product just make me choched - and if prayers would be a help in any way, then I pray it stay a freeware product forever. I'm deeply impressed - and don't even want to hide that fact!

  No file associations  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 2
• Value: 5
• Overall:

Beautiful interface but I am unable to use it as my graphics viewer because you can not open files by double clicking on them in Explorer. There are no file associations with this program. Pity. I am back to using Xnview as my file viewer.

  Response by software author  

Thanks for your comments. Currently we are working on version 1.2 which allows users to associate files with this program and double click to open. FastStone Soft.

  Will have to mature a bit.  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

Starts up just as fast as Irfanview (on my my XP). Small problem: it has difficulty in deleting files and folders.

  Very nice  

• Interface: 4
• Features: 4
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 4
• Overall:

I was looking for a replacement for ... ACDSee that I had been using. This is it. Very similar in layout, it doesn't have quite the features of ACDSee (file move/copy and renaming tools and bookmarks are noticeably absent, and it can't handle multimedia files), but its editing tools are much more robust. Very useful as a viewing/editing/file management suite. Contrary to another user's opinion, it will never replace IrfanView: FastStone is simply not as fast as IrfanView, and uses considerably more system resources; IrfanView can use most common graphics filters and FastStone cannot.

  Great!  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 4
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

I cannot say more: it's great! I think it have the chance, in future, to became an excellent replace for the classic Irfan View. I admire the imagination of the author(s) of this software! Now I am sure, everyone will copy FastStone Image Viewer and say "why did'nt I think for those facilities before?"

  Print screen  

• Interface: 2
• Features: 2
• Ease of use: 2
• Value: 2
• Overall:

The program looked good but if the FastStone program was running, about every 30 seconds my "PrintScreen 2000 v5.10" program would pop up and save a screen shot. I am not sure if this (screen capture) was a 'feature' of the FreeStone program or not. This may have been a program conflict or is it possible that FastStone was trying to collect screen shots of my PC? Nah, probably just a conflict. I uninstalled FastStone anyway.

  Response by software author  

We are sorry to hear that. Currently we have no idea about the software called PrintScreen 2000 v5.10 since we do not bundle our software with others. We are proud to say that: our software is freeware, does NOT collect any information from users, NO Adware, NO Spyware. We are doing research in media processing and want to share our ideas with people. Thank you for reporting this, maybe there is a conflict with that application and we will take a look into it. FastStone Soft.

  Wow !  

• Interface: 5
• Features: 5
• Ease of use: 5
• Value: 5
• Overall:

What an awesome viewer - so many features and it is very smooth and fast , so cool I cant stand it!!