Icaros Alternatives

Icaros is described as 'Collection of lightweight, high quality, Windows Shell Extensions, which is capable of providing Windows Explorer thumbnails for essentially any video media filetype' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are five alternatives to Icaros for Windows, Windows Explorer, F-Droid and Android. The best Icaros alternative is SageThumbs, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Icaros are ThumbView, MysticThumbs, Instant ThumbView and Exif Thumbnail Adder.

Icaros alternatives are mainly Image Viewers but may also be Image Converters or Shell Extensions. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Icaros.

Icaros

Free • Proprietary
Shell Extension

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SageThumbs
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Free • Open Source
Image Viewer
Image Converter
Windows
Windows Explorer
14 SageThumbs alternatives
SageThumbs is a Windows Explorer context menu extension allowing Windows users to preview enormous amounts of image formats directly within Windows Explorer.
- - SageThumbs is the most popular Windows alternative to Icaros.
- - SageThumbs is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Icaros.
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SageThumbs Features
1. Windows Explorer ExtensionSageThumbs can extend Windows Explorer in various ways, for example add context menu options, etc..
2. LightweightSageThumbs consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
3. No registration requiredYou can use most of the features in SageThumbs without registration.
4. Extensible by Plugins/ExtensionsSageThumbs can be extended with add-ons, plugins and extensions.
5. Ad-freeSageThumbs doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
6. Works OfflineSageThumbs can be used without the need to connect to the internet.
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Image Preview
Thumbnails
File preview
Discontinued
The latest version 2.0.0.23 was released on May 9th, 2017.
ThumbView
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Free • Open Source
Windows
Windows Explorer
9 ThumbView alternatives
ThumbView enables image thumbnails and tooltips in Microsoft Windows XP Explorer (does not work on Windows 7) for filetypes that are not natively supported. It started with PCX, TGA, DDS and PNG images, but now ThumbView supports an amazing 19 image types - directly inside any...
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ThumbView Features
1. Windows Explorer ExtensionThumbView can extend Windows Explorer in various ways, for example add context menu options, etc..
Thumbnails
Thumbnail preview
Discontinued
No update has been released since version 1.0 was released on December 2nd, 2004.
MysticThumbs
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Paid • Proprietary
Windows
Windows Explorer
8 MysticThumbs alternatives
MysticThumbs generates thumbnails of many image types not natively supported by Windows. It does this transparently and in the background for Explorer so you don't have to run a separate application to preview your images.
- - MysticThumbs is the most popular commercial alternative to Icaros.
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MysticThumbs Features
1. Windows Explorer ExtensionMysticThumbs can extend Windows Explorer in various ways, for example add context menu options, etc..
Thumbnails
Thumbnail preview
Instant ThumbView
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Paid • Proprietary
Image Viewer
Shell Extension
Windows
Windows Explorer
9 Instant ThumbView alternatives
Instant ThumbView is a tiny image viewer that displays image thumbnails in a tooltip window, when mouse pointer is hovered over an image file in Windows Explorer. It supports a lot of popular image file formats, including BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, WMF, EMF, TIFF and is very handy for...
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Instant ThumbView Features
1. Windows Explorer ExtensionInstant ThumbView can extend Windows Explorer in various ways, for example add context menu options, etc..
Image Preview
Thumbnail preview
Exif Thumbnail Adder
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Free • Open Source
Android
F-Droid
8 Exif Thumbnail Adder alternatives
This application for android devices searches for pictures (JPEG) on your device and adds a thumbnail if they don't have one yet. Thumbnails are added to the EXIF metadata structure.
- - Exif Thumbnail Adder is the most popular Android alternative to Icaros.
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Exif Thumbnail Adder Features
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