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Timg

Timg is a free, open-source developer tool for macOS and Linux. A terminal image and video viewer. It has 2,790 GitHub stars and is released under the GPL-2.0 license. Its source code is on GitHub at hzeller/timg.

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About Timg

Terminal Image and Video Viewer =============================== A user-friendly terminal image viewer that uses graphic capabilities of terminals (Sixel, Kitty or iterm2), or 24-Bit color capabilities and unicode character blocks if these are not available.

Install Timg

Package names found in the project's README. Each links to its package page so you can check the publisher first.

Homebrew (macOS)
brew install timg

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FAQ

Timg FAQ

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Is Timg free and open source?

Yes. Timg's source code is public on GitHub under the GPL-2.0 license, which is OSI-approved or FSF-free, so you can use, copy and change it for free.

How do I install Timg?

Homebrew: brew install timg. The commands are on this page. Installers are also on its GitHub Releases page (latest: v1.6.3).

Is Timg still maintained?

The repository's most recent commit was on Aug 5, 2026. appsgit only lists apps whose repository had a commit in the last six months.