Download File Viewer Lite for Windows
Click the Download button below to download the latest version of File Viewer Lite. The installer will guide you through the software installation process.
Current Version: 1.5.1
Version History
February 5, 2021
File Viewer Lite 1.5.1 released
- Added Italian language support
- Other minor improvements
August 7, 2019
File Viewer Lite 1.5 released
- Added new application icon
- Added support for High Efficiency File Format files (.heic, .heif)
- Added support for many new multimedia types
- Fixed various bugs
August 7, 2017
File Viewer Lite 1.4.1 released
- Updated installer with new certificate
August 12, 2016
File Viewer Lite 1.4 released
- Now supports over 150 file formats!
- Added support for many new multimedia file types
- Added 100+ formats to the file type identification database
- Upgraded digital certificate for Windows 10 compatibility
- Improved German, Spanish, French, Czech, Polish, and Chinese versions
- Fixed a character encoding issue with the source code view
August 6, 2015
File Viewer Lite 1.3.3 released
- Windows 10 compatibility update
- Fixed an issue with displaying .PCD images
March 12, 2015
File Viewer Lite 1.3.2 released
- Added additional string translations for German
- Fixed a print dialog bug for image printing
- Other minor user interface bug fixes
January 6, 2015
File Viewer Lite 1.3.1 released
- Added a language option to the Preferences window
- Fixed a menu bar issue with Chinese localization
December 17, 2014
File Viewer Lite 1.3.0 released
- Added 13 new file formats (.dds, .dfont, .dib, .jbig/.jbg, .jng, .miff, .mvg, .pes, .psb, .sfw, .svgz, .ttf, .webp)
- Added localizations for German, Spanish, French, Chinese Traditional, Chinese Simplified, Polish, and Czech
- Improved support for DICOM images
- Added support for DICOM metadata and Photoshop IPTC metadata
- Improved camera raw support, including more camera models
- Improved source code view
September 3, 2014
File Viewer Lite 1.2.0 released
- Added a user manual (Help -> User Manual...)
- Added more robust text search features
- Minor bug fixes and UI improvements
May 30, 2014
File Viewer Lite 1.1.1 released
- Implemented minor interface improvements
May 9, 2014
File Viewer Lite 1.1.0 released
- Updated document viewing engine, which improves compatibility with Microsoft Word
- Upgraded PDF viewing engine, which improves PDF rendering quality
- Upgraded image editing engine and graphics editing interface
- Updated audio & video engine enabling higher quality playback
- Added a full screen video mode
- Added an option to upgrade to File Viewer Plus
- Updated application name
- Fixed minor bugs
August 8, 2013
File Viewer 1.0.2 released
- Fixed an issue that could prevent file association preferences from saving correctly
May 29, 2013
File Viewer 1.0.1 released
- Fixed an issue that would prompt an unnecessary restart during installation
- Updated application name
May 20, 2013
Windows File Viewer 1.0.0 released
- Initial release
Other Downloads
While File Viewer Lite is freeware, it uses the following open source components to provide the widest range of supported file types. You may click the links below to download the corresponding archive.
- FFmpeg (v. 2.1.4)
- VisualOn AAC encoder (v. 0.1.3)
- Lame (v. 3.99.5)
- Libwps (v. 0.2.7)
- rtmpdump (v. 2.3)
- SDL-devel (v. 1.2.14)