Folder Quick Look Alternatives

Apps similar to Folder Quick Look include The Unarchiver, which is free. Other options are SpacePeek, Grizzly, Seer Pro and Kiview. File Archivers like Folder Quick Look are a crowded field, with more than 25 alternatives for Mac, Windows and Linux.

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  1. 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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  2. Archiver icon
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    ?? Extract Archives: So you downloaded this file you can't open? Don't be fooled by the name — Archiver is a highly versatile unarchiver that can unpack pretty much any archive you throw at it. With Archiver, you can extract RAR, StuffIt, Zip, 7zip and many more popular...

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    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  3. Looq icon
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    Adds feature-rich previews to Quick Look including GitHub-style Markdown with KaTeX and Mermaid, syntax highlighting for over 200 languages, sortable tables for CSV/TSV and SQLite, archive and directory browsing, diff file views, and theming options.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  4. Wouldn't it be great if Mac OS X's Quick Look would let you inspect the contents of compressed archives? With the help of the BetterZip Quick Look Generator, it can.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  5. EPS Quick Look does one small job: it restores Finder thumbnails and Quick Look previews for EPS files, so old vector artwork feels native on modern macOS again. Previews and thumbnail generation also work in third-party file managers like Bloom and QSpace.

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    • Mac
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  6. Preview folders, archives, source code with syntax highlighting, Markdown, Mermaid diagrams, ebooks, and many more file types directly in macOS Quick Look.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Homebrew
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  7. 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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  8. iPreview icon
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    iPreview provides quicklook preview for source code, Markdown, Jupyter, Webp, Avif, 3D Model and any more file types in macOS Finder, Quicklook, Spotlight.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  9. QuikZip icon
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    Browse archive trees, preview files, edit files inside regular ZIP archives, then save changes to the same archive or a new ZIP.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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  10. Accelerate your workflow with the Quick Look conveniences that only Peek can deliver: text selection & copying, scroll restoration, syntax highlighting, & more.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  11. A Mac archive utility that opens almost anything — RAR, 7z, encrypted, and multi-part archives — and creates, compresses, and encrypts them too, with no ads, subscriptions, or tracking.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  12. When Quick Look spacebar preview of your Mac doesn't work and you end up with the thumbnail of the photo, you can use Quick Look Fix from the menu bar.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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