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.- 14 SageThumbs alternatives
- Free • Open Source
- Image Viewer
- Image Converter
- Windows
- Windows Explorer
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.
SageThumbs Features
DiscontinuedThe latest version 2.0.0.23 was released on May 9th, 2017.
- 9 ThumbView alternatives
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Windows Explorer
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...
ThumbView Features
DiscontinuedNo update has been released since version 1.0 was released on December 2nd, 2004.
- 8 MysticThumbs alternatives
- Paid • Proprietary
- Windows
- Windows Explorer
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.
MysticThumbs Features
- 9 Instant ThumbView alternatives
- Paid • Proprietary
- Image Viewer
- Shell Extension
- Windows
- Windows Explorer
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...
Instant ThumbView Features
- 8 Exif Thumbnail Adder alternatives
- Free • Open Source
- Android
- F-Droid
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.
Exif Thumbnail Adder Features