BMP Viewers Apps and Alternatives

The BMP (bitmap image file) format is a raster graphics image format that supports multiple levels of color depths per pixel, according to the number of bits per pixel from the file header.

The BMP format is quite common, therefore most image viewers and editors will be able to access and modify these files. Compared to lossy formats like JPEG, BMP files have not gone through any compression, which means they retail the original image quality. Of course, thse files are also larger, so the format is not always suitable.

BMP viewers typically allow users to also perform some basic editing actions, such as rotating and flipping images, while more complex ones often allow conversion to other formats. You will find both simple viewers and advanced image management utilities in this list, and some of these applications even have portable counterparts, which don't need to be installed and can be run from portable storage devices.