Skip to content

Preview vs Shotwell

A side-by-side look at Preview and Shotwell. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Preview

Preview

Office & Productivity

Preview is a free and open-source document viewer application for macOS. It allows quick viewing of multiple file formats including images, PDFs, Markdown files, Office documents, and more. Preview has basic editing capabilities and annotation tools for PDFs.

pdfimagesdocumentsviewermacosopensource
Shotwell

Shotwell

Photos & Graphics

Shotwell is an open source image organizer and editor for Linux. It has basic photo editing tools and allows organizing images into events and tags. Shotwell has features to import photos from cameras and export to sharing sites.

photoorganizereditorimportexport

Related Comparisons