IrfanView

You want to open a picture, FAST, no matter the format or resolution ?

You want to open a picture and then move from one picture to the next in the same folder with arrow keys or mouse scroll, again fast and without loading or menus fonctions or whatever ?

You want to batch process a folder to convert all files to png with the larger side limited to 2000px, keep the location data but reset the orientation data, and remove the original file only if conversion succeeded ?

You want to scan something, rotate it and lossy pixelize an area ?

You want to resize, convert, re-encode a picture from one format to another with tonnes of option without resorting to command line because you're on windows and you would like to just do it in the same app you use for every photo thing ?

You want to cut a part of a picture, or identify the pixel color on a picture, or dozens or other every day operations like that ?

You want all of that to be absurdly fast, aka instant, without any complex menu or dozens of clicks to get where you need ?

I've been using irfanview since the beginning too, and it's not for lack of trying other stuff, it's just so much better. It's for me one of those tools, like Everything or Ditto or SumatraPDF or 7zip or NAPS2 or ... That just get what they are and what they should provide, and do just that, and do it right.

Do you have a link for Ditto? Searching for "Ditto app" and "Ditto software" returns several possible results for me (e.g. clipboard, music app, managing "copy", content sharing).

The most famous is the clipboard one (https://ditto-cp.sourceforge.io/). I'd be surprised if they were referring to another "Ditto" software.

You are correct, this is the one I meant. It claims to handle windows clipboard "shortcomings" by remember previous entries and allowing you to access it easily (allowing for multi copy paste situation), and it does just that and do it well.

BTW windows now ship with a clipboard tool like this using Windows + V shortcut. I use other tools you mentioned already though. Need to try ditto. Is there a list of similarly *fast* alternatives like this for windows (+other OSes)?

Idk if this is still the case but back when I tried the built in clipboard history when it was first released, it didn’t handle formatted text well, nor did it handle multi-media particularly well, if at all.

One of the best parts about ditto is that you can choose to paste with or without formatting

I use sumatra for how lightweight and fast it is. 7zip is just uncontested. I wish Ditto had copycats on linux and macos. It's just sublime.

I've never used irfanview though, I'm too quick to judge from the UI of an app xD

I see all those buttons on IrfanView and how it opens as an explorer of pictures rather than just a simple Photo Viewer with arrows to go back and forth and closed it. qView is my fav right now. It does exactly what I need from a viewer. It views. I rarely need editing.

Nowadays if I need editing I just open Photopea.

If I need batch editing/converting I open XnConvert.

tl;dr IfranView is probably amazing, but just like all those buttons on np++ I pre-judge and find simpler things

The Windows clipboard history tool works with images. Screenshots, at least, but I think others as well.

I haven't used Ditto so I don't know how closely macOS clipboard managers compare to it, but there's certainly a fair number of programs for the Mac out there that sound similar to Ditto's own description, from the free, open source Maccy to the somewhat over-the-top $13 Pastebot. There are other utility programs that include similar functionality; personally, I'm using Alfred, a keyboard-driven launcher, which also includes a pretty good clipboard manager (and is the sort of app that I'd be looking for copycats for on Linux if I ever made the switch back!).

https://maccy.app

https://tapbots.com/pastebot/

https://www.alfredapp.com

The are indeed many clipboard managers across all platforms, but none have the perfect UI of ditto. Its ditto's UI that needs to be copied everywhere else.

Haven't used Ditto before but I use CopyQ on Linux, at least according to the screenshots of Ditto it appears that CopyQ has been influenced by it

Maccy on MacOS is perfect: https://maccy.app/

I use maccy on my wife’s Mac and don’t love it, maybe it’s bec I’m still not comfortable with Mac keyboard shortcuts or maybe it’s just the UI, but there’s something about it that feels less baked than ditto.

I don’t know ditto but on maccy it’s just the paste shortcut (for the last copy) plus a number (if you need an older copy). Could it be easier?

Everything is the best program I have ever used.

I couldn't live without it at this point. It would be like cutting off both arms.

Doesn't Ctrl+Shift+v already paste without formatting?

I'd be interested in your list of must have, the one you've mentioned mirror mine, though I've never heard of NAPS2. A few of mine:

Treesheets Zim wiki Notepad++ Autohotkey

A way to sort of "alt-tab" between copy versions instead of separate keypresses for each?

I don't understand what you mean. Sorting: There is no shortcut for sorting. However, I have never needed this either, because the search via regular expressions Fuzzy or a mixture of both works very well.

Raycast packages a few of these into a modern app as well. Clipboard, Searching files, Window management. Very lightweight though part of a different generation so more "bloated" in some people's eyes. Low resources used though.

That's what it claims to do in many apps, yes. I still end up pasting into notepad and copying from there to get real paste-without-formatting.

Have you tried using Fluent? It uses Everything as the back-end search and then adds steroids to it.

I know about Ansys Fluent, the CFD software. I'm guessing you are not talking about it. Can you provide a link to this software?

The laboratory dialogs are worth seeing.

Chipping in dnGrep.

Allows to grep inside XLSX and Word files.

http://dngrep.github.io/

I think they mean this: https://github.com/adirh3/Fluent-Search

Everything 1.5 beta does this.

Looks interesting, thanks. Can't tell yet if it has the same incredible lack of bloat as Everything (the Everything version I used for years was about 350KB all up!) but I'll give it a spin.

> You want to open a picture and then move from one picture to the next in the same folder with arrow keys or mouse scroll, again fast and without loading or menus fonctions or whatever ?

And moving to an adjacent folder is not much slower, because it includes a custom folder browser that allows quick navigation up and down the directory hierarchy using the arrow keys.