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Which apps support to open and convert JPEG XL (.jxl) pictures?

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JPEG XL (.jxl) is the next-generation, general-purpose image compression codec by the JPEG committee (more info you can find on jpegxl.info). Which apps/programs can open and convert it?

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answered 1 Year ago rhaeams · Accepted Answer

So far following apps support JPEG XL:

Viewers

Geeqie – Recent commit adds JPEG XL support.

gThumb (Linux image viewer) from version 3.11.3 onwards as Flatpak or with unofficial UbuntuHandbook PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/apps

XnView MP – closed-source image viewer (but up to 0.99.1 JXL support limited to Windows)

Gwenview (KDE Application)

PhotoQt Image Viewer

nomacs - Image Lounge

qimgv - Image viewer. Fast, easy to use. Optional video support.

digiKam - Advanced open-source digital photo management application, settings see here.

PicView - Fast Picture Viewer

Qt plug-in qt-jpegxl-image-plugin to allow Qt and KDE based applications to read/write JXL images.

Browsers

Palemoon (from version 31.4.0 onwards)

Browsers with activation

Firefox (see Tutorial), Chrome, Edge, Opera, Brave

Converters

libjxl – JPEG XL Reference implementation

MConverter – online media converter

Squoosh – WebAssembly-based image converter

jpegxl.io

Other:

Thunderbird (Email client): To enable JPEG XL support: Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> General: Click on button Config Editor: Manually set image.jxl.enabled to true.

Photostack - Open-source batch photo editor

ExifTool – Official JPEG XL support added in version 12.25.

darktable since version 4.2 - Open source photography workflow application and raw developer

GIMP – With 2.10.32 the JPEG XL file format support was backported from the 2.99.8 development release, so far only with import ability (unofficial PPA for Ubuntu 21.10+, sudo apt install libjxl-gimp-plugin needed to get JPEG XL support).

The libjxl repository includes a plugin for 2.10+.

There is another plugin for development GIMP 2.99.

ImageMagick – toolkit for raster graphics processing

FFmpeg – multimedia framework, via libjxl

Qt / KDE apps - via KImageFormats

Squoosh App - Multiplatform desktop app to optimize, resize, compress and convert your images.