Icaros AlternativesShell Extensions and other similar apps like Icaros
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 a Shell Extension in the os & utilities category. There are six alternatives to Icaros for Windows, File Explorer, F-Droid and Android. The best Icaros alternative is SageThumbs, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Icaros are DarkThumbs, ThumbView, MysticThumbs and Instant ThumbView.
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- Free • Proprietary
- 60 likes18 SageThumbs alternatives
SageThumbs is a Windows Explorer context menu extension allowing Windows users to preview enormous amounts of image formats directly within Windows Explorer.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Windows
- Windows Explorer
SageThumbs Features
- Windows Explorer Extension
- Lightweight
- No registration required
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Ad-free
- Works Offline
- Thumbnail preview
- Image Preview
- Thumbnails
- File preview
DiscontinuedThe latest version 2.0.0.23 was released on May 9th, 2017.
SageThumbs VS Icaros
Is SageThumbs a good alternative to Icaros? - 1 like1 DarkThumbs alternatives
Adds thumbnail preview to Windows Explorer for EPUB, FB2 and Kindle ebooks; CBZ, CBR, RAR and ZIP archives.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
DarkThumbs Features
- Windows Explorer Extension
- Lightweight
- Ad-free
DarkThumbs VS Icaros
Is DarkThumbs a good alternative to Icaros? - 5 likes13 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...
License model
- Free • Open Source
Platforms
- Windows
- Windows Explorer
ThumbView Features
- Windows Explorer Extension
- Thumbnails
- Thumbnail preview
DiscontinuedNo update has been released since version 1.0 was released on December 2nd, 2004.
ThumbView VS Icaros
Is ThumbView a good alternative to Icaros? - 5 likes12 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.
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
- Windows Explorer
MysticThumbs Features
- Windows Explorer Extension
- Thumbnails
- Thumbnail preview
MysticThumbs VS Icaros
Is MysticThumbs a good alternative to Icaros? - 2 likes13 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...
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Windows
- Windows Explorer
Instant ThumbView Features
- Windows Explorer Extension
- Image Preview
- Thumbnail preview
Instant ThumbView VS Icaros
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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.
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