iShell Alternatives

iShell is described as 'A set of extensions for Windows Explorer that used to preview SVG' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to iShell for Windows, File Explorer, Mac and Web-based. The best iShell alternative is SageThumbs, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like iShell are SVG Viewer, Smart SVG Viewer, XnShell and SVG Explorer Extension.

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  1. SageThumbs icon
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    SageThumbs is a Windows Explorer context menu extension allowing Windows users to preview enormous amounts of image formats directly within Windows Explorer.

    18 SageThumbs alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
     
    • SageThumbs is the most popular Windows alternative to iShell.

    • SageThumbs is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to iShell.

    • SageThumbs is Free and Open SourceiShell is also Free and Open Source
    • SageThumbs is LightweightiShell is not according to our users
  2. SVG Viewer icon
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    SVG Viewer is an online tool to view, edit and optimize SVGs.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
    • SVG Viewer is the most popular Web-based alternative to iShell.

    • SVG Viewer is Free and ProprietaryiShell is Free and Open Source
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    “Smart SVG Viewer” is a free, fast and convenient SVG image viewer with Thumbnail Gallery and Transparency Grid. It is a must-have tool for UI/UX design, Web design, and Graphic design.

    33 Smart SVG Viewer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. XnShell icon
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    XnShell is a free File Explorer extension that installs a number of image-related tools in the right-click context menu, including a thumbnail preview, image conversion to a wide variety of formats, image resizing, editing image IPTC...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
     
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    A collection of extensions tools for SVG files, integrated into Microsoft Windows Explorer (Vista, 7, 8, 10 and 11):

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    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...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
     
    • Instant ThumbView is the most popular commercial alternative to iShell.

    • Instant ThumbView is Paid and ProprietaryiShell is Free and Open Source
  7. ThumbView icon
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    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
     
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    The Windows File Explorer Plugin allows you to preview thumbnail images of your SVG Documents diretcly within the File Explorer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
     
  9. MysticThumbs icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
     
  10. Image Detail icon
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    A new image viewer that has nice features like identifying and generating colors from image, changing colors of image with color adjustment and color matrix tools, crop & split image for Instagram, TIF/GIF Animated extractor, batch functions.

    108 Image Detail alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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