Get HDRiris View

FREE DESKTOP HDRI MANAGER

Your HDRIs.
Ready to light.

Organize every HDR and OpenEXR file, understand its lighting, preview it on real materials, and move straight into your 3D workflow.

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HDRiris View displaying Valley of Desolation in its lighting preview and HDRI library

THE WHOLE LIBRARY, NOT ANOTHER FOLDER

Find the right environment.
Understand the light.
Use it immediately.

01 / ORGANIZE

Stop searching
by filename.

Add the folders you already use. On-device AI analyzes each HDRI and suggests searchable tags for its scene, lighting, weather and time—without moving, changing or uploading the original.

  • Find HDRIs by meaning with automatic AI tags
  • Filter by setting, scene, lighting, time and weather
  • Search names, paths, notes and manual tags too
  • Rate, favorite, rename and annotate
18 results

02 / PREVIEW THE LIGHT

Judge an HDRI before
opening your DCC.

Move between a flat panorama, immersive 360° view and a physically based lighting preview. Change exposure, rotation, surface response and model without touching the source file.

HDRiris View previewing a custom helmet model under the Aarfontein Dirt Road HDRI, with the library and radiance analysis visible
Three preview modesFlat, immersive and lighting
Material controlsColor, metalness and roughness
Your own modelsImport self-contained GLB files
LIGHT PROFILERelative luminance and RGB distributions measured across the full HDRI.
-5-30+3+5
17.4 EVUsable range
2.8%Highlight ratio
34° · 18°Main light

Relative, solid-angle-weighted diagnostics · 184 ms

03 / UNDERSTAND

More than
a thumbnail.

HDRiris View reads scene-linear radiance, builds an interactive histogram, highlights quality issues and suggests useful tags with on-device analysis.

Your library stays yours.Analysis runs locally. Your HDRIs and imported models are not uploaded.

04 / DISCOVER

Poly Haven,
inside your library.

Browse free CC0 HDRIs from Poly Haven, filter the catalog, choose HDR or EXR and download the resolution you need directly into a watched folder.

Explore Poly Haven
Poly Haven thumbnail for Valley of Desolation
Valley of Desolation24K · Poly Haven · Dario Barresi

OutdoorClear

Poly Haven thumbnail for Autumn Forest 02
Autumn Forest 0220K · Poly Haven · Andreas Mischok

OutdoorOvercast

Poly Haven thumbnail for Modern Bathroom
Modern Bathroom16K · Poly Haven · Adrian Kubasa

IndoorSoft light

Poly Haven thumbnail for Sunny Vondelpark
Sunny Vondelpark16K · Poly Haven · Greg Zaal

OutdoorSunrise

05 / USE IT

From library
to scene.

Apply the selected HDRI directly to a new Blender scene. Cinema 4D and Unreal Editor integrations are coming soon.

Blender

Apply the selected environment to a new Blender scene.

APPLY HDRI
Cinema 4D

Direct Cinema 4D integration is currently in development.

COMING SOON
Unreal Editor

Direct Unreal Editor integration is currently in development.

COMING SOON

HDRIRIS VIEW 1.0.0

Your entire HDRI library.
One clear view.

Free for macOS and Windows. No account required.

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QUESTIONS

Good to know.

Is HDRiris View really free?

Yes. HDRiris View is a free desktop tool for organizing, inspecting and previewing HDRI libraries.

Does it change or move my HDRI files?

No. Watched folders remain under your control. HDRiris View stores its thumbnails, analysis and library metadata separately.

Does automatic tagging upload my images?

No. HDRI analysis and tag suggestions run on your computer. Poly Haven browsing uses the internet only when you open its catalog or download an asset.

Which file formats are supported?

HDRiris View indexes Radiance HDR and OpenEXR environments. You can also import static, self-contained GLB models for lighting previews.