Quick Look Fix Alternatives

Quick Look Fix is described as 'When Quick Look spacebar preview of your Mac doesn't work and you end up with the thumbnail of the photo, you can use Quick Look Fix from the menu bar' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to Quick Look Fix for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Flathub and GNOME apps. The best Quick Look Fix alternative is Folder Quick Look, which is free. Other great apps like Quick Look Fix are Preview, Eye of GNOME, Kiview and Seer Pro.

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    Folder Quick Look is a macOS extension that enhances the system’s Quick Look feature by allowing users to instantly preview the contents of folders and compressed archives without opening them. Once installed, you can simply select a folder or supported archive format (such as...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
    • Folder Quick Look is the most popular Mac alternative to Quick Look Fix.

    • Folder Quick Look is the most popular free alternative to Quick Look Fix.

    • Folder Quick Look is Free and ProprietaryQuick Look Fix is Paid and Proprietary
  2. Preview icon
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    Native macOS app for viewing, annotating, and editing images and PDFs, featuring tools for cropping, rotating, resizing images, rearranging pages, full-screen viewing, markup, document merging, batch conversion, and export in multiple formats.

    167 Preview alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
    • Preview is the most popular iPhone & iPad alternative to Quick Look Fix.

    • Preview is Free and ProprietaryQuick Look Fix is Paid and Proprietary
    • Preview is LightweightQuick Look Fix is not according to our users
  3. Eye of GNOME icon
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    Eye of GNOME is the official image viewer for the GNOME Desktop environment. With it, you can view single image files, as well as large image collections. The Eye of GNOME supports a variety of image file formats.

    89 Eye of GNOME alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
     
    • Eye of GNOME is the most popular Linux alternative to Quick Look Fix.

    • Eye of GNOME is the most popular Open Source alternative to Quick Look Fix.

    • Eye of GNOME is Free and Open SourceQuick Look Fix is Paid and Proprietary
    • Eye of GNOME is Privacy focused and LightweightQuick Look Fix is not according to our users
  4. Kiview icon
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    Kiview gives the user the ability to quickly preview different file types without the need to launch the default application.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Dolphin File Manager
    • Flatpak
     
  5. Seer Pro icon
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    This is a quick look tool for Windows. Acts just like the one in OS X , but Seer is more powerful and faster.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
    • Seer Pro is the most popular Windows alternative to Quick Look Fix.

    • Seer Pro is Freemium and ProprietaryQuick Look Fix is Paid and Proprietary
  6. Xviewer icon
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    Xviewer is a simple image viewer which uses the gdk-pixbuf library. It can deal with large images, and zoom and scroll with constant memory usage. Its goals are simplicity and standards compliance. Xviewer is installed by default in Linux Mint.

    88 Xviewer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Linux Mint
     
  7. GNOME Sushi icon
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    GNOME sushi is a file previewer for the GNOME desktop environment. It is available as a standalone package that integrates with GNOME Files (formerly named Nautilus).

    9 GNOME Sushi alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GNOME
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
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    Folder Preview is a Quick Look extension that lets you preview the contents of a folder.

    18 Folder Preview alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
    • Folder Preview is the most popular commercial alternative to Quick Look Fix.

    • Folder Preview is Paid and ProprietaryQuick Look Fix is also Paid and Proprietary
    • Folder Preview is Lightweight and Privacy focusedQuick Look Fix is not according to our users
  9. WinQuickLook icon
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    WinQuickLook allows you to select a file in Windows Explorer or on your desktop and then simply press the spacebar to see the contents of the file without having to open it with a special application.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    By default, macOS doesn't provide previews and thumbnails for WebP, a modern image format providing superior, lossless and lossy compression for images on the web. WebPQuickLook fills this gap by allowing you to see previews and thumbnails of .webp images on your Mac.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  11. QLStephen icon
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    QLStephen is an Apple OSX Quick Look plugin that lets you view plain text files without a file extension. It is useful for reading files like README, INSTALL, CHANGELOG, Makefile, Rakefile and CapFile (files that the default Quick Look plugins don't handle).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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