Gloobus Preview Alternatives

Gloobus Preview is described as 'Gloobus-preview is a Gnome extension designed to enable a full screen preview of any kind of file similar to Apple's Quicklook' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to Gloobus Preview for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Linux, Flathub, GNOME and Flatpak apps. The best Gloobus Preview alternative is Folder Quick Look. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Eye of GNOME or Kiview. Other great apps like Gloobus Preview are Seer Pro, Xviewer, GNOME Sushi and Folder Preview.

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  1. 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

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  2. Eye of GNOME icon
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    Eye of GNOME is the official image viewer for the GNOME Desktop environment. With it, you can view single image files, as well as large image collections. The Eye of GNOME supports a variety of image file formats.

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
     
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    Eye of GNOME vs Gloobus Preview Comments
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    Eye of gnome preview only image files!

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    • Eye of GNOME is Free and Open SourceGloobus Preview is also Free and Open Source
    • Eye of GNOME is Privacy focused and LightweightGloobus Preview is not according to our users
  3. Kiview icon
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    Kiview gives the user the ability to quickly preview different file types without the need to launch the default application.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Dolphin File Manager
    • Flatpak
     
  4. Seer Pro icon
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    This is a quick look tool for Windows. Acts just like the one in OS X , but Seer is more powerful and faster.

    16 Seer Pro alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  5. Xviewer icon
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    Xviewer is a simple image viewer which uses the gdk-pixbuf library. It can deal with large images, and zoom and scroll with constant memory usage. Its goals are simplicity and standards compliance. Xviewer is installed by default in Linux Mint.

    90 Xviewer alternatives

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    • Linux
    • Linux Mint
     
  6. GNOME Sushi icon
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    GNOME sushi is a file previewer for the GNOME desktop environment. It is available as a standalone package that integrates with GNOME Files (formerly named Nautilus).

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GNOME
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  7. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  8. Very much like Folder Preview, Folder Preview Pro allows you to quick look folders in Finder.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  9. 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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