SageThumbs Alternatives
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, Windows Explorer, F-Droid and Android. The best alternative is Icaros, which is free. Other great apps like SageThumbs are XnShell, SVG Explorer Extension, PicaView and ThumbView.
SageThumbs alternatives are mainly Image Converters but may also be Image Viewers or Shell Extensions. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of SageThumbs.Icaros is a collection of lightweight, high quality, Windows Shell Extensions, which is capable of providing Windows Explorer thumbnails for essentially any video media filetype.
Icaros vs SageThumbs opinions
lauraetWhereas SageThumbs provides thumbnails for IMAGE files, Icaros works with VIDEO files.
BevansDesignContrary 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...
Extension module for Windows Explorer to render SVG thumbnails, so that you can have an overview of your SVG files.
SVG Explorer Extension vs SageThumbs opinions
no .psd, .ora, or .sai thumbnails
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.
DiscontinuedThe product is no longer available on the official website, but you can still download it from OldVersion.com
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...
DiscontinuedNo update has been released since version 1.0 was released on December 2nd, 2004.
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.
MysticThumbs vs SageThumbs opinions
hermes3por3I 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!
FastPreview was created in need of a usable PicaView replacement which was discontinued at the time.
Pictus is a fast, free image viewer that enables Windows to see thumbnails of supported formats, such as PSD. Give it a spin today!
DiscontinuedLast updated in 2008. See https://poppeman.se/pictus/
- Paid • Proprietary
- Image Viewer
- Shell Extension
9 alternatives to Instant ThumbView- Windows
- Windows Explorer
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...
Context Viewer is an explorer extension in the form of a Control Panel applet that lets you preview image files and text in the right click menu. It can also display customized information about images and set hotkeys to enable or disable the preview along with a few more...
DiscontinuedThe official website is no longer available, but the last version, 1.41, can be still downloaded from Wayback Machine