SageThumbs AlternativesImage Viewers and other similar apps like SageThumbs

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   Icaros

    45 likes

   Icaros is a collection of lightweight, high quality, Windows Shell Extensions that provide Windows Explorer thumbnails for many media filetypes.

   6 Icaros alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Proprietary

   Application type

   • Shell Extension

   Origin

   • Sweden
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Windows
   • File Explorer

   • Sweden
   • EU

   

   

   

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   Icaros vs SageThumbs Comments

   Negative comment by Laura Timmel · Feb 7, 2018

   Whereas SageThumbs provides thumbnails for IMAGE files, Icaros works with VIDEO files.

   Positive comment by BevansDesign · Apr 29, 2021

   Contrary to what others say, this DOES make thumbnails for image files. It seems to generate thumbnails for PSD files just fine for me.

   Negative comment by Guest · Jun 6, 2020

   Icaros previews video files while SageThumbs is an extension for previewing image files. Completely different file types

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   • Icaros is Free and ProprietarySageThumbs is Free and Open Source
   • Icaros is a Shell Extension SageThumbs is an Image Viewer
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   XnShell

    19 likes

   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

   Application typeApplication types

   • Image Converter
   • Image Optimizer

   Origin

   • France
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Windows
   • Windows Explorer

   • France
   • EU

   

   

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   SageThumbs 2K

    12 likes

   A modern, crash-isolated Rust shell extension for Windows 11, the clean-room revival of the legendary (but decade-abandoned) SageThumbs.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Image Viewer

   Platforms

   • Windows
   • File Explorer

   

   

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   Pictus

    14 likes

   Pictus is a fast, free image viewer that enables Windows to see thumbnails of supported formats, such as PSD. Give it a spin today!

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Image Viewer

   Origin

   • Sweden
   • EU

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Windows
   • Windows Explorer

   • Sweden
   • EU

   

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   MysticThumbs

    5 likes

   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.

   13 MysticThumbs alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Paid
   • Proprietary

   Origin

   • Australia

   Platforms

   • Windows
   • Windows Explorer

   • Australia

   

   

   

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   Positive comment by hermes3por3 · Jan 13, 2017

   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!

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   • MysticThumbs is Paid and ProprietarySageThumbs is Free and Open Source
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   Instant ThumbView

    3 likes

   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

   Application typeApplication types

   • Image Viewer
   • Shell Extension

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Windows
   • Windows Explorer

   • United States

   

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   SVG Explorer Extension

    21 likes

   Extension module for Windows Explorer to render SVG thumbnails, so that you can have an overview of your SVG files.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Platforms

   • Windows

   

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   SVG Explorer Extension vs SageThumbs Comments

   Negative comment by Guest · Jan 8, 2017

   no .psd, .ora, or .sai thumbnails

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   • SVG Explorer Extension is Free and Open SourceSageThumbs is also Free and Open Source
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    FastPreview

     6 likes

    FastPreview was created in need of a usable PicaView replacement which was discontinued at the time.

    12 FastPreview alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer

    

    

    

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    PicaView

     6 likes

    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.

    10 PicaView alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    • Image Converter

    Origin

    • Canada

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer

    • Canada

    

    

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    Smart SVG Viewer

     3 likes

    “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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Image Viewer

    Platforms

    • Windows

    

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    ThumbView

     5 likes

    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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    SVG Shell Extensions

     2 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (Apache-2.0)

    Application type

    • Image Viewer

    Origin

    • Italy
    • EU

    Platforms

    • Windows

    • Italy
    • EU

    

    

    

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