# QOI - The “Quite OK Image Format” for fast, lossless image compression
Single-file MIT licensed library for C/C++
See [qoi.h](https://github.com/phoboslab/qoi/blob/master/qoi.h) for
the documentation and format specification.
More info at https://qoiformat.org
## Why?
Compared to stb_image and stb_image_write QOI offers 20x-50x faster encoding,
3x-4x faster decoding and 20% better compression. It's also stupidly simple and
fits in about 300 lines of C.
## Example Usage
- [qoiconv.c](https://github.com/phoboslab/qoi/blob/master/qoiconv.c)
converts between png <> qoi
- [qoibench.c](https://github.com/phoboslab/qoi/blob/master/qoibench.c)
a simple wrapper to benchmark stbi, libpng and qoi
## Limitations
The QOI file format allows for huge images with up to 18 exa-pixels. A streaming
en-/decoder can handle these with minimal RAM requirements, assuming there is
enough storage space.
This particular implementation of QOI however is limited to images with a
maximum size of 400 million pixels. It will safely refuse to en-/decode anything
larger than that. This is not a streaming en-/decoder. It loads the whole image
file into RAM before doing any work and is not extensively optimized for
performance (but it's still very fast).
If this is a limitation for your use case, please look into any of the other
implementations listed below.
## Tools
- https://github.com/floooh/qoiview - native QOI viewer
- https://github.com/pfusik/qoi-ci/releases/tag/qoi-ci-1.1.0 - QOI Plugin installer for GIMP, Imagine, Paint.NET and XnView MP
- https://github.com/iOrange/QoiFileTypeNet/releases/tag/v0.2 - QOI Plugin for Paint.NET
- https://github.com/iOrange/QOIThumbnailProvider - Add thumbnails for QOI images in Windows Explorer
- https://github.com/Tom94/tev - another native QOI viewer (allows pixel peeping and comparison with other image formats)
## Implementations & Bindings of QOI
- https://github.com/pfusik/qoi-ci (Ć, transpiled to C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python and Swift)
- https://github.com/kodonnell/qoi (Python)
- https://github.com/Cr4xy/lua-qoi (Lua)
- https://github.com/superzazu/SDL_QOI (C, SDL2 bindings)
- https://github.com/saharNooby/qoi-java (Java)
- https://github.com/MasterQ32/zig-qoi (Zig)
- https://github.com/rbino/qoix (Elixir)
- https://github.com/NUlliiON/QoiSharp (C#)
- https://github.com/zakarumych/rapid-qoi (Rust)
- https://github.com/takeyourhatoff/qoi (Go)
- https://github.com/DosWorld/pasqoi (Pascal)
- https://github.com/elihwyma/Swift-QOI (Swift)
- https://github.com/xfmoulet/qoi (Go)
- https://erratique.ch/software/qoic (OCaml)
## QOI Support in Other Software
- [SerenityOS](https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity) supports decoding QOI system wide through a custom [cpp implementation in LibGfx](https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/blob/master/Userland/Libraries/LibGfx/QOILoader.h)
- [Raylib](https://github.com/raysan5/raylib) supports decoding and encoding QOI textures through its [rtextures module](https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/blob/master/src/rtextures.c)
- [Rebol3](https://github.com/Oldes/Rebol3/issues/39) supports decoding and encoding QOI using a native codec
- [c-ray](https://github.com/vkoskiv/c-ray) supports QOI natively
## Packages
[AUR](https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/qoi-git/) - system-wide qoi.h, qoiconv and qoibench install as split packages.
## Implementations not yet conforming to the final specification
These implementations are based on the pre-release version of QOI. Resulting files are not compatible with the current version.
- https://github.com/steven-joruk/qoi (Rust)
- https://github.com/ChevyRay/qoi_rs (Rust)
- https://github.com/panzi/jsqoi (TypeScript)
- https://github.com/0xd34df00d/hsqoi (Haskell)