There was a download of ShapeViewer 1.2 on the developer's website when we last checked. We cannot confirm if there is a free download of this software available. The most popular version of the ShapeViewer 1.2.
According to the results of the Google Safe Browsing check, the developer's site is safe. Despite this, we recommend checking the downloaded files with any free antivirus software. This free software is an intellectual property of Mohammed Hammoud. The software lies within Photo & Graphics Tools, more precisely Viewers & Editors. The ShapeViewer installer is commonly called ShapeViewer.exe.
From the developer:
Shape Viewer is a free tool, which you can use to view ESRI Shape files.
Shape Viewer can open (.shp) files that contain the geometry information of the shape file. With Shape Viewer you can also create new (.shx) file, and new empty (.dbf) file for your shape file.
You may want to check out more software, such as Montagne, ImageVisu or ZoomMagic, which might be similar to ShapeViewer.