Install a DICOM viewer, open it for the first time, and the first thing you see is a box asking for a license key. Or the app opens, but a corner of the screen reads "14 days left in your trial". We hear stories like this from radiologists fairly often, especially when all they want is to read one study on their own laptop or on a second PC outside the reading room.
Radiology images today are digital and stored in PACS. But a complete set of reading tools often stays behind at the radiology workstation. Outside of it, the choice is usually a bare-bones built-in viewer, or an application that wants to be activated before it does anything.
So for HISGrace DICOM Viewer we settled one thing from the start: the free plan has to work the moment it is installed.
Download, install, start reading
HISGrace DICOM Viewer is now available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. The Free plan asks for no account, no license key, and has no time limit. Once installed, it is ready to open studies.
What the Free plan already includes:
- Opening files, folders, CDs, and DICOMDIR from your computer.
- Connecting to the PACS your hospital already uses.
- All 2D tools: window/level, zoom, distance and angle measurements, ROIs, and a scale ruler.
- MPR and 3D volume rendering, including MIP/MinIP, also for multi-frame CT and MR.
- PET-CT fusion display.
- Multiple synchronized viewports, cine, and hanging protocols.
- Displaying SR, SEG, RTSTRUCT, PDF, video, and ECG objects stored in a study.
Pick a layout or build your own, from 1×1 to custom grids and 3D four up.
Why the free plan is this complete
To us, opening and reading a study is the most basic need there is. It doesn't feel right to make people pay for that basic need before they can even try the application.
The paid Pro and Max plans are still there, for longer workflows: writing reports, a local archive, sending studies to other PACS nodes, sharing between PCs on the local network, comparing with prior studies, and advanced analysis such as segmentation or perfusion maps. But if what you need is to read, the Free plan is enough, and it will stay free.
Images stay where they are
Studies open directly from your computer, a CD, or your hospital's PACS. No images are uploaded to our servers. With Indonesia's Personal Data Protection Law now in force, we want to say that plainly.
To be fully open about it: the application sends anonymous usage statistics — plan, version, operating system, and which features are used — to help us decide what to improve first. Those statistics contain no patient data, PC names, or accounts. The details are in the DICOM Viewer privacy policy.
You can download it from the HISGrace DICOM Viewer page.
