SageThumbs is described as 'Windows Explorer context menu extension allowing Windows users to preview enormous amounts of image formats directly within Windows Explorer' and is a popular Image Viewer in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 10 alternatives to SageThumbs for Windows, File Explorer, F-Droid and Android. The best SageThumbs alternative is Icaros, which is free. Other great apps like SageThumbs are XnShell, MysticThumbs, Pictus and Smart SVG Viewer.
Icaros is a collection of lightweight, high quality, Windows Shell Extensions that provide Windows Explorer thumbnails for many media filetypes.
Contrary to what others say, this DOES make thumbnails for image files. It seems to generate thumbnails for PSD files just fine for me.
Icaros previews video files while SageThumbs is an extension for previewing image files. Completely different file types
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...
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.
I have found MysticThumbs a longstanding success at generating thumbnails for file formats not supported natively by Windows. What I value most is its smooth blend with explorer, the fact that does not block drives when I eject them, and its useful tray icon that indicates when it's working on new thumbnails. For its usefulness and reliability I am a happy customer!
Pictus is a fast, free image viewer that enables Windows to see thumbnails of supported formats, such as PSD. Give it a spin today!
“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.
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...
Extension module for Windows Explorer to render SVG thumbnails, so that you can have an overview of your SVG files.
no .psd, .ora, or .sai thumbnails
FastPreview was created in need of a usable PicaView replacement which was discontinued at the time.
A collection of extensions tools for SVG files, integrated into Microsoft Windows Explorer (Vista, 7, 8, 10 and 11):
PicaView is the simple, no-hassle image viewing solution. This is an add-on for viewing images in File Explorer that lets you right-click on an image file to bring up a miniature image and image file information.
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...
This shell extensions will show you a thumbnail of an image file, as well as its dimensions, when you right click on a filename inside Explorer.
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Whereas SageThumbs provides thumbnails for IMAGE files, Icaros works with VIDEO files.