Show HN: Photo viewer, right in the terminal, cross-platform, no need for x11

3 FerkiHN 3 7/11/2025, 4:08:45 PM

A utility for viewing images in the terminal, convenient, fast and works anywhere, even on weak devices, written in pure C, does not require RGB is ~300kb in size on all platforms. More details in the repository: https://github.com/Ferki-git-creator/phono-in-terminal-image...

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coffeecoders · 17h ago

Looks like it is based on stb_image which is good for common formats - jpg, png etc but doesn't support modern formats such as webp and heif. Might be worth it to go with GraphicsMagick instead like timg [1] which I use daily.

[1] https://github.com/hzeller/timg

But looks like a good minimal and portable project.

FerkiHN · 16h ago

Thanks for the answer, I focused my project on minimalism and small size so that it would work anywhere.

FerkiHN · 17h ago

What do you think, do you have any ideas for improvement?

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Show HN: Photo viewer, right in the terminal, cross-platform, no need for x11

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