libvips

6.8easy start · #7 of 36
in Image Converter Software

Free to practise onyes
Free trialnot on record
Well documentedyes
Runs where you workyes

Runs on Linux, Mac, self-hosted, Windows.

libvips is ranked #7 of 36 in image converter software on The Geeks Club. It runs on Linux, macOS, Self-hosted, Windows. There is a free plan.

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libvips Free LGPL-2.1-or-later libvips.org · 4 Oct 2026

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Image resizing: Yes
Color mode conversion: Yes
API access: Yes
Web application: No

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The record

Purpose: libvips is a demand-driven, horizontally threaded image processing library that runs quickly and uses little memory.
Operations: It has around 300 operations for tasks including arithmetic, histograms, convolution, morphology, frequency filtering, colour, resampling and statistics.
Image formats: It supports formats including JPEG, JPEG 2000, JPEG XL, TIFF, PNG, WebP, HEIC, AVIF, FITS, Matlab, OpenEXR, PDF, SVG, GIF, DeepZoom and OpenSlide.
Bindings: It provides C, C++ and command-line interfaces, plus bindings for Ruby, Python, PHP, .NET, Go, Lua, Crystal, Elixir, Java and Nim.
Integrations: The site lists Mastodon, sharp, imgproxy, wsrv.nl, bimg, Ruby on Rails, CarrierWave and MediaWiki as users of libvips as an image processing engine.
License: libvips is licensed under LGPL-2.1-or-later.
Supported systems: The site says packages are available for most Unix-like systems and that libvips can be installed on macOS and Windows.
Windows downloads: Windows downloads include a web-focused binary with a relatively secure subset of file format readers and a larger binary with all supported readers, for which the site advises care before public deployment.
Build configuration: Optional dependencies and build options can be enabled or disabled when building libvips from source.
Use cases: The overview describes libvips as suited to large images, many CPUs, colour work, scientific analysis and general research and development.
GUI: The official libvips GUI is nip4, which the site describes as a combination of a spreadsheet and a photo editor.
Support: The official site links to documentation, issues and a wiki.
Current library version: The current API documentation identifies the library version as 8.18.
Price from: Free

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Best Image Converter Software in 2026#7 of 36

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libvips.org· checked 4 Oct 2026
libvips.org/install.html· checked 4 Oct 2026
libvips.org/API/8.16/ch01.html· checked 4 Oct 2026
libvips.org/API/current/· checked 4 Oct 2026