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

HawkView

The fast image viewer that shows every detail

The fast image viewer that shows every detail