Apps with 'Quick Look' feature

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  1. A native Mac productivity suite for files, clipboard history, media controls, system HUDs, live activities, lock screen customization and more.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    Meet Droppy, a native Mac productivity suite with a customizable shelf, lock screen, media controls, and more.
    Move files without breaking your flow with Droppy's floating file basket.
    Choose from 24 optional Droplets for notes, timers, windows, meetings, file tools, and more.
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  2. QuickLook icon
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    The Quick Look feature from Mac OS X, which allows users to preview file contents quickly by pressing the Space key, is missed. Windows doesn't have this feature. While alternatives like WinQuickLook and Seer exist, the decision was made to create a new version because the...

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    Preview of a shapefile (.shp) using the shapefile viewer plugin https://github.com/birderyu/QuickLook.Plugin.ShapefileViewer
    Preview of a PDF file
    Preview of a .docx file using the office plugin at https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook.Plugin.OfficeViewer
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    Preview of an excel .xlsx file using the office plugin at https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook.Plugin.OfficeViewer
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  3. CoverFlowFinder icon
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    macOS file browser featuring classic 3D Cover Flow carousel, dual pane mode, Quick Look previews, sidebar navigation, instant sorting, and robust search.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
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  4. Folder Quick Look is a macOS extension that enhances the system’s Quick Look feature by allowing users to instantly preview the contents of folders and compressed archives without opening them. Once installed, you can simply select a folder or supported archive format (such as...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  5. Downright icon
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    Native macOS Markdown reader and editor offering Document, Split, and Source views, Finder integration, customizable themes, real-time file tracking, and broad Markdown rendering.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Homebrew
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  6. SpacePeek icon
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    SpacePeek enriches Finder Quick Look for folders and archives. Select a folder or supported archive in Finder and press Space to understand its size and contents without opening a separate disk utility.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  7. Grizzly icon
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    Grizzly is an open-source macOS application designed for browsing and extracting ZIP archives with speed and ease. It provides a clean, Finder-style interface with native system integrations to simplify ZIP file management.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  8. Fast file manager for macOS with Windows-like workflow, cut and paste features, tabbed interface, deep tree navigation, multi-panel browsing, and advanced search.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  9. App Trust Preview helps you inspect Mac software before opening it. It explains signing, notarization, sandboxing, permissions, network access, installers, disk images, executables, scripts, and helpers in plain language, with Quick Look, custom reports, AI agent support and CLI export

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  10. BetterZip icon
     34 likes

    Supports over 30 archive formats, enables archive editing and AES-256 encryption, includes password manager, macOS Finder integration, and file preview.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  11. Kiview icon
     4 likes

    Kiview gives the user the ability to quickly preview different file types without the need to launch the default application.

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Dolphin File Manager
    • Flatpak
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  12. Fover icon
     6 likes

    Introducing Fover, a fresh approach to file management on your macOS device. With Fover, moving files and folders becomes a breeze, taking just three simple steps: drag and drop files into the app, specify the destination folder, and click the move button.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  13. QLStephen icon
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    QLStephen is an Apple OSX Quick Look plugin that lets you view plain text files without a file extension. It is useful for reading files like README, INSTALL, CHANGELOG, Makefile, Rakefile and CapFile (files that the default Quick Look plugins don't handle).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  14. By default, macOS doesn't provide previews and thumbnails for WebP, a modern image format providing superior, lossless and lossy compression for images on the web. WebPQuickLook fills this gap by allowing you to see previews and thumbnails of .webp images on your Mac.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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  15. Looq icon
     1 like

    Adds advanced preview to Quick Look, with Markdown and KaTeX rendering, syntax highlights for 200+ languages, TSV/SQLite tables, archive browsing, and theme customization.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  16. This application offers a quicklook extension for MacOS 10.15 Catalina or later for previewing source files. Inside it uses Highlight to render source code with syntax highlighting. The application is distributed with a version of the highlight.

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    • Mac
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  17. This package allows macOS Finder to display thumbnails, static QuickLook previews, cover art and metadata for most types of video files.

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    • Mac
    • Finder
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  18. Quick Eye icon
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    Quick Eye is a quick look application for Windows. Just press the space bar to quickly preview files. This software is also recommended for people who are used to macOS.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  19. The app lets you create groups of related files on your desktop. You can freely move groups of files around on your desktop and add or remove files via drag & drop.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  20. FilePop icon
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    FilePop is a file browser that lives in your menu bar. Hit the global shortcut, the picker pops down from the menu-bar icon, and you're already there — at your favorites, your recents, your home folder, ready to drag a file out, drop one in, or jump to a path with a...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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