Icaros is a collection of lightweight, high quality, Windows Shell Extensions that provide Windows Explorer thumbnails for many media filetypes.
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ThumbView Alternatives
ThumbView is described as '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' and is an app in the file management category. There are more than 10 alternatives to ThumbView for Windows, File Explorer, F-Droid and Android. The best ThumbView alternative is Icaros, which is free. Other great apps like ThumbView are SageThumbs, Smart SVG Viewer, SVG Explorer Extension and SVG Shell Extensions.
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6 Icaros alternatives
18 SageThumbs alternativesSageThumbs is a Windows Explorer context menu extension allowing Windows users to preview enormous amounts of image formats directly within Windows Explorer.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Application type
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
- Windows Explorer
33 Smart SVG Viewer alternatives“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.
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
A collection of extensions tools for SVG files, integrated into Microsoft Windows Explorer (Vista, 7, 8, 10 and 11):
A native hardware-accelerated Windows SVG thumbnail handler for File Explorer that uses only the Windows API, written in Rust.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Windows
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
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- 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...
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Windows
- Windows Explorer
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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.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
- Windows Explorer
The FastPictureViewer Codec Pack is a one-stop shop that enables support for 44 additional image formats in Windows Explorer, Windows Photo Gallery, Windows Photo Viewer, Windows Live™ Photo Gallery and, on Windows 7, also within Windows Media Center and Windows Media Player 12...
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
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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Windows (64-bit) Explorer Shell Extensions for SVG files Preview Handler and Thumbnail Provider
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (BSL-1.0)
Platforms
- Windows
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