Pane Picture Viewer is a fast, private photo viewer for Windows that's useful the moment it's installed — browse the folders you already have, zoom, rotate, run slideshows. And when a set of pictures deserves to stay together, pack it into a single .pane file for Pane at its best: instant previews, the continuous strip, deep zoom, and a cover right in File Explorer. No ads, no accounts, no telemetry.
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Checkout opening soon What's a .pane file? ↓Open a picture, arrow through its folder, zoom around the pointer, rotate losslessly, run a full-screen slideshow. Your pictures as they are — no conversion, no import.
Pack a folder — or a whole folder tree — into a single file with embedded thumbnails, fast previews, and every full-resolution picture.
Sets open instantly, the continuous strip glides through everything, deep zoom keeps enormous pictures sharp, and the cover shows up right in File Explorer.
PANE is ShoSoft's single-file format for sets of high-resolution pictures — where Pane's best features live. One folder in, one .pane file out, everything on your PC.
Create a set from the current folder — or convert a whole folder tree in one batch — from inside the app or straight from the File Explorer right-click menu.
Sets open instantly from embedded thumbnails and previews. Flip one picture at a time, or glide through a continuous horizontal strip that loops seamlessly.
Drag any picture out of a set to extract it, rename or remove pictures without unpacking, or unpack the whole set from File Explorer.
The first four need nothing but the pictures you already have. The second four are why the .pane format exists.
Smooth pointer-centered zoom and pan, fit-to-window or actual size, and lossless JPEG rotation — browsing pictures in File Explorer sort order from a clean, distraction-free window. The full-screen slideshow brings shuffle, loop, speed controls, and multi-monitor support.
Pane works with the OS instead of around it: print through the Windows photo printing experience, share to compatible apps, save a copy, or set a picture as the desktop background. Make Pane the default app for any format it opens.
Choose the picture that represents a folder or set in File Explorer — or, if the best part is only a detail, select a square region as the cover without cropping or changing the source photo.
No ads, no account, no telemetry, and nothing is uploaded — your pictures stay on your PC. Recent-item history and preferences are stored locally and can be cleared or disabled. There is no key, activation, or periodic check.
When a folder deserves to stay together, turn it into one .pane file — thumbnails, fast previews, and full-resolution pictures in a single container that opens instantly and travels as easily as one file ever does.
Switch from one-at-a-time to a seamless horizontal strip and glide through the whole set in one smooth view — with detail-on-demand zoom, so even enormous pictures stay sharp without loading everything at once.
.pane sets show their cover as a thumbnail. Right-click a folder to create a set (or one per subfolder), right-click a set to unpack it, and drag any picture out of the side pane to extract it at full quality.
Sets stay editable and reversible: rename or remove pictures inside a set without unpacking it, drag any picture out at full quality, unpack the whole thing from File Explorer, or export a print-friendly HTML contact sheet.
Buy direct from ShoSoft once checkout opens: one purchase for your everyday viewer and the complete .pane workflow, with lifetime use of v1.x. No key, account, subscription, or periodic check.