QuickLook AlternativesImage Viewers and other similar apps like QuickLook

QuickLook is described as 'The Quick Look feature from Mac OS X, which allows users to preview file contents quickly by pressing the Space key, is missed. Windows doesn't have this feature. While alternatives like WinQuickLook and Seer exist, the decision was made to create a new version because the' and is a popular Image Viewer in the office & productivity category. There are more than 10 alternatives to QuickLook for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Flathub and GNOME apps. The best QuickLook alternative is Preview, which is free. Other great apps like QuickLook are Eye of GNOME, Seer Pro, WinQuickLook and GNOME Sushi.

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  1. 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

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    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
    • Preview is the most popular Mac, iPhone & iPad alternative to QuickLook.

    • Preview is the most popular free alternative to QuickLook.

    • Preview is Free and ProprietaryQuickLook is Free and Open Source
  2. 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 QuickLook.

    • Eye of GNOME is the most popular Open Source alternative to QuickLook.

    • Eye of GNOME is Free and Open SourceQuickLook is also Free and Open Source
    • Eye of GNOME is Privacy focusedQuickLook is not according to our users
  3. 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.

    16 Seer Pro alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • Seer Pro is the most popular Windows alternative to QuickLook.

    • Seer Pro is Freemium and ProprietaryQuickLook is Free and Open Source
  4. 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
     
    • WinQuickLook is the most popular commercial alternative to QuickLook.

    • WinQuickLook is Paid and Open SourceQuickLook is Free and Open Source
  5. 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).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GNOME
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Linux Mint
     
  7. 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
     
  8. BandiView icon
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    BandiView is the succeeding image viewer to Honeyview, that inherits everything cool of its predecessor and also gets improved even further.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Gloobus-preview is a Gnome extension designed to enable a full screen preview of any kind of file similar to Apple's Quicklook.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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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. Quick Eye icon
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    Quick Eye is a quick look application for Windows. Just press the space bar to quickly preview files. This software is also recommended for people who are used to macOS.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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