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Icaros

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Icaros is a collection of lightweight, high quality, Windows Shell Extensions, which is capable of providing Windows Explorer thumbnails for essentially any video media filetype.

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License model

  • FreeProprietary

Application type

Country of Origin

  • SE flagSweden
  • European Union flagEU

Platforms

  • Windows
  • Windows Explorer
4 / 5 Avg rating (3)
40likes
2comments
0news articles

Features

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Properties

  1.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Thumbnail preview
  2. File Explorer icon  Windows Explorer Extension
  3.  Thumbnails
  4.  Shell Extension Replacement

Icaros News & Activities

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Recent activities

  • Read-Create-Motivate and kurokoboku liked Icaros
    8 months ago
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    Pi9D added Icaros as alternative to CBX Shell
    10 months ago
  • Pi9D added Icaros as alternative to DarkThumbs
    10 months ago
  • thelovelyluxi liked Icaros
    11 months ago
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Icaros information

  • Developed by

    SE flagXanashi
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 4
  • Alternatives

    6 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

AlternativeTo Category

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Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about Icaros, and it has gotten 40 likes

Icaros was added to AlternativeTo by Nuihc88 on Aug 26, 2014 and this page was last updated Jan 17, 2020.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
qwx
Jan 17, 2020
0

It works not only thumbnail for video files, but also cover pic for audio files (ogg etc). Also you can view artist, album, length etc info in explorer for every audio type.

Top Negative Comment
jebkiller
Jul 15, 2023
-1

Doesn't produce thumbnails for webm's. I saw a thread on their forum from 2020 saying many file types not working correctly. You cant make a new account on the forum. I suspect its discontinued.

What is Icaros?

Icaros is a collection of lightweight, high quality, Windows Shell Extensions, which is capable of providing Windows Explorer thumbnails for essentially any video media filetype.

Icaros can provide Windows Explorer thumbnails, for essentially any video media format supported by FFmpeg which includes popular filetypes such as: Mkv, Flv, Avi, Mp4, Mov, Rmvb, M2ts, Ogm etc.

It is capable of thumbnailing just about any file by adding its extension(s) to the optional filetypes box and re-activating Icaros.