FastStone MaxView is a very small, fast image viewer that supports a large number of readable formats including JPEG, JPEG2000, GIF, BMP, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO, CUR, TGA and writing to JPEG, JPEG2000, TIFF, GIFF, GIF, PCX, BMP, PNG, TGA. The program also supports camera formats including CRW, CR2, NEF, PEF, RAF, MRW, ORF and DNG. FastStone MaxView can display images on a full screen with zoom support, displays detailed information about the image, shows Slideshow presentations with over 150 photo effects and the ability to turn on soundtrack in MP3/WAV/MIDI/WMA formats and much, much more.

The application additionally gives the possibility to define key shortcuts to the most important options.