GIF Viewer Portable

This is the portable version of GIF Viewer, a straightforward piece of kit whose sole purpose is to load the content of GIF animations. It does not comprise complex features or configuration parameters, making it accessible to all user categories, even those with little or no experience in graphic viewers.

As there is no setup kit involved, you can drop the executable file in any part of the hard disk and just click it to run.

There is also the possibility to save GIF Viewer to a USB flash disk or other removable storage unit, in order to run it on any computer with minimum effort, as long as it has .NET Framework installed.

Another important factor to take into account is that the Windows registry and Start menu do not receive new entries, so the disk is left clean after GIF Viewer's removal.

As far as the GUI is concerned, the app is user-friendly. Based on a single window with a plain and simple structure, figuring out the functionality of each button shouldn't impose difficulties to any users.

At the first initialization, GIF Viewer offers to associate itself with GIF images as the default viewer. A classical file browsing dialog pops up immediately, requesting you to indicate a GIF file to open.

The animation is loaded right after this step, and you can stop it at any frame, as well as jump to a particular frame by moving a slider. The delay time for each slide may be configured as well.

Several options become available in the context menu. For instance, you can extract all frames or a particular range to BMP, JPG, non-animated GIF, PNG, TIFF, EXIF, EMF or WMF format once the output directory and base file name are established. Moreover, GIF Viewer lets you choose the image quality and open the respective GIF with an external application.

CPU and RAM consumption was low during the tool's runtime in our tests. We have not come across any unpleasant surprises in our tests, and the program did not hang, crash or pop up errors. To sum it up, GIF Viewer presents a very simple method for viewing GIF animations, loaded with a frames extractor that supports many popular image formats.