View archived image files with comics, manga, or photos.
Honeyview is a very fast image viewer supporting various formats. Honeyview can open common image formats including BMP, BPG, JPG, GIF, PNG, PSD, DDS, JXR, WebP, J2K, JP2, TGA, TIFF, PCX, PNM, and PPM. RAW formats such as DNG, CR2, CRW, NEF, NRW, ORF, RW2, PEF, SR2, RAF, WebP, DDS, PCX, and PNM can also be opened. It also allows viewing an archive without extraction - ideal for manga and cartoon viewing. Supported archive formats include ZIP, RAR, 7Z, LZH, TAR, ALZ, and EGG. Images can be viewed in various modes such as Fill and Parallel View. Slideshows are also supported with various transition effects. Favorite images can be copied to a user-selected "Photo Folder" for easy access and storage. If an image has GPS information, the location can be viewed on Google Maps. Honeyview supports Sound & Shot files in which images and sound are simultaneously recorded.
Ugly Window 8 style unintuitive interface
No buttons
Darkens colors
Summary
This is a horrible image viewer. The interface is ugly. It's clearly designed for Windows 8 and that "looks like a kid drew it" style of interface that's popular these days. The only way to have controls visible is to have that huge, ugly bottom "bar," which looks like a media player controller. Though, navigation is simple using the image buttons, at least until you increase the display size an image, when that no longer works. Worst of all, it darkens the dark colors in images. This is a no-go as I want my images displayed exactly as they are. After all, if I wanted distorted colors, I'd just use the default Windows Photo Viewer.
Better than Windows 7/8 built-in imageviewer
Cnetty182
Pros
1. Really cool features
2. Better than XP's default viewer aside from a few exceptions (see cons point #3)
3. Plays animated gifs very well, shows frames
4. A ton of options in the settings etc.
5. Portable! (just associate all jpg/png/gif images etc to Honeyview portable)
6. Very minimalistic interface, but powerful under the hood.
Cons
1. Terrible default settings
2. Large in-your-face percentage when you zoom and cannot disable this
3. When maximized, the close button isn't shoved right up against the top-right corner of the screen, meaning you can't rapidly close an image with the mouse, you have to carefully aim. This is the worst issue by far.
4. Can't use themes on the portable version, only on the installed version.
Summary
Superb replacement to the horrible default viewer in Windows 7/8. I can 'almost' customize it to be as good as XP's default image and fax viewer. Con #3 is a huge issue for me though.
Almost what I wanted.
Poemi
Pros
Views many kinds of files. Allows me to view my manga through .rar and .zip files rather than having to extract the pics from them, with the push of an arrow - you can use left and right or up and down arrows.
Cons
Doesn't display the name of the file it's showing. I have to escape the program to see what chapter I'm on. Also doesn't display the page you're on or the total number pages in the file.
Summary
Best CBR/CBZ Viewer!
rasheed12824
Pros
- opens files really fast
- lots of features
- program loads super-quick
- interface does not take much space
- preview images in any compressed folder, rar, zip, 7z, etc.