A light image viewer for photos, comics and webtoons. It opens ZIP, RAR, 7Z and CBZ archives and PDF and HWP documents page by page without extracting anything to disk, and reads the next page ahead so it appears the moment you press a key.
Photos > IMG_2041.jpg [1/6] - WorldViewArchives · PDF · HWP as they are
Next page read ahead
No more extracting and deleting a comic archive every time you read it.
WorldView reads the images inside an archive straight into memory.
trip-01.cbz > 002.jpg [2-3/8] - WorldViewImages inside an archive are opened from memory, never extracted to disk. When you close it, there is nothing to clean up.
PDFs page by page, and HWP · HWPX documents with each page drawn as an image. Two-page view and webtoon view work the same way.
Press Ctrl+PageDown to move to the next folder or archive in the same place. To move on automatically from the last page, set At the first/last file to Next folder.
With Reopen last file at start on, WorldView opens the page you were viewing the next time it starts. Mark pages to come back to with the bookmark button on the bottom bar.
Below is a real-size WorldView window.
Press a card to watch the steps, or use the buttons in the window and your keyboard.
Photos > IMG_2041.jpg [1/6] - WorldViewClick the window, then turn pages with ← →, change the size with 1–4 and toggle info with Tab. Right-click opens the menu.
This is a demonstration. No real files are opened; file names, sizes, dates and shooting info are examples. Photos are from Pixabay; the comic and webtoon pages were drawn for this page.
Opens JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP, TIFF, BMP, HEIC, AVIF, JPEG XL, SVG, PSD, camera RAW (CR2, NEF, ORF, RW2 and more), and PDF, HWP and HWPX.
View the images inside ZIP, RAR, 7Z, CBZ, CBR, CB7, EGG, ALZ, TAR, ISO and other archives directly. Archives are read with the ZipMania engine.
Two-page view reads left to right or right to left, and can show the first page alone as a cover or show wide pages on their own.
Once the current page is on screen, the next one is read ahead. Large JPEGs are shown first at the resolution the screen needs and reloaded at full size when you zoom in.
Turns photos upright from their EXIF orientation, converts images with a colour profile (ICC) to sRGB, and plays GIF, APNG and animated WebP. Tab info also shows date taken, camera, lens, exposure and location.
Shortcuts for turning pages, size, rotation, info, full screen and opening can be changed, and files deleted with Delete go to the Recycle Bin, so you can get them back.
File name : IMG_2060.jpg
File size : 3.8 MB (4,012,556 bytes)
Modified : 2026-10-18 07:48:33
Image : 1920 x 1278 (JPEG, RGB24)
Taken : 2026-10-18 07:48:33
Camera : Example X100
Lens : 23mm F2
Exposure : 1/125s f/5.6 ISO 400
Focal length : 23mm
Flash : Did not fire
Location (GPS) : 47.3769, 8.5417
Photos > IMG_2060.jpg [4/6] - WorldView
trip-01.cbz > 004.jpg [4-5/8] - WorldView
ep-12.cbz > 01.jpg [1/3] - WorldViewWindows are shown at real size and scaled down when the space is smaller. In Settings you can click a category to see it change.
Put the volumes in one folder and open the first. Ctrl+PageDown goes to the next volume, Ctrl+PageUp to the previous one. In Settings → View, set At the first/last file to Next folder to move on from the last page.
Choose Two Pages (Right to Left) from the view button (the monitor) on the bottom bar. If there is a separate cover, turn on First Page as Cover; if a spread is stored as one wide image, turn on Wide Pages Alone.
Turn on Webtoon (Continuous) from the view button and the images in a folder or archive are joined top to bottom and scrolled with the wheel. Space goes down one screen, Shift+Space goes up.
Press Delete on a photo you don't need and it goes to the Recycle Bin. If the confirmation gets in the way, turn off Ask before deleting a file in Settings → General. Images inside archives are never deleted.
1 fits the window, 2 is the original size, 3 fits the width and 4 fits the height. = · - or the zoom buttons on the bottom bar zoom step by step. To fill the window with small images too, turn on Enlarge small images to fit from the view button.
When the image is larger than the window, move around with the wheel, arrow keys, Space or by dragging; pressing towards a side with nowhere left to go turns the page. To keep turning pages with the wheel while zoomed in, turn on Wheel turns pages when zoomed.
Press Tab to show the file name, size, date modified and resolution, plus date taken, camera, lens, exposure and location, at the top left. Turn the shooting info off with EXIF in image info in Settings → View.
Turn on Always on top in Settings → General. Enter toggles full screen, and Esc leaves full screen or closes the program (Quit with the Esc key).
In Settings → File Types, tick only the formats you want. If another program is using an extension, it is marked Not applied; click it to open the Windows window for choosing that extension's default app.
In Settings → Shortcuts, click the box you want to change and press the new key. If the key is already used, it tells you where.
Select several files in File Explorer and drag them onto the window; only those become the list. Drop a folder and its subfolders and the archives inside them are listed too.
WorldView.exeWorldView.toml next to the programVersion 1.0.3
Version 1.0.2
Version 1.0.1
WorldView does not update itself. When it starts it only tells you if a new version is available; new versions are checked internally before being posted here and on Kilho.net.
Images: JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP, TIFF, BMP, ICO, TGA, QOI, HDR, EXR, JPEG XL, JPEG 2000, SVG, PSD, DDS, PCX, HEIC, AVIF and camera RAW (CR2, NEF, NRW, ORF, PEF, RW2, SR2). Documents: PDF, HWP and HWPX. Archives: ZIP, RAR, 7Z, CBZ, CBR, CB7, EGG, ALZ, TAR, ISO and more. It also tries extensions that are not on the list.
No. Images inside an archive are read into memory and drawn without temporary files. PDF and HWP files inside an archive, and archives inside an archive, are not opened.
Yes. PDFs are shown page by page, and HWP · HWPX documents with each page drawn as an image, so two-page view and webtoon view work as usual. Password-protected documents are not opened.
No. WorldView reads the EXIF orientation and shows photos the way they were taken. You can also rotate 90° to the right with R.
No. It goes to the Recycle Bin, so you can restore it. The confirmation before deleting can be turned off in Settings, and images inside archives are never deleted.
Yes. All file associations are off at first, and only the formats you choose in Settings → File Types open in WorldView.
Yes. Extract the portable version (ZIP) anywhere and run WorldView.exe. Settings are saved in WorldView.toml next to the program, so in a folder you cannot write to (such as Program Files) settings are not kept.
When it starts it checks once for a new version (app version, language and a random ID for counting), and if the program crashes it sends an error report. Nothing else is sent; opening and drawing images all happens on your PC.
Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit. It draws with the graphics card (GPU), and on PCs where the GPU cannot be used it draws with the CPU (which can be slower).