CImg VS imagick

Compare CImg vs imagick and see what are their differences.

CImg

The CImg Library is a small and open-source C++ toolkit for image processing (by GreycLab)

imagick

Go binding to ImageMagick's MagickWand C API (by gographics)
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CImg imagick
2 3
1,268 1,580
2.1% 0.8%
0.0 1.2
6 days ago 9 months ago
C++ Go
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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CImg

Posts with mentions or reviews of CImg. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning CImg yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

imagick

Posts with mentions or reviews of imagick. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-16.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing CImg and imagick you can also consider the following projects:

libvips - A fast image processing library with low memory needs.

OpenCV - Open Source Computer Vision Library

OpenImageIO - Reading, writing, and processing images in a wide variety of file formats, using a format-agnostic API, aimed at VFX applications.

FreeImage - A custom distribution of FreeImage, with a CMake-based build system. Used by the Athena Game Framework.

go-cairo - Go binding for the cairo graphics library

imaginary - Fast, simple, scalable, Docker-ready HTTP microservice for high-level image processing

Boost.GIL - Boost.GIL - Generic Image Library | Requires C++14 since Boost 1.80

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