Accelerate your workflow with the Quick Look conveniences that only Peek can deliver: copying, searching, jumping, scroll restoring, syntax highlighting, & more.
Visit Peek’s home page for a list of all 325 — and counting — compatible file extensions.
Learn more at: https://bigzlabs.com/peek
A QuickLook plugin to visualize .car files (compiled Asset Catalogs).
The precompiled binary as well as the whole source code can be found here: https://blog.timac.org/
A QuickLook plugin for WebVTT (Web Video Text Track, aka .vtt) files.
You can see a movie demoing it at: http://www.mark-sweeney.com/?p=1833
And you can download the plugin directly here.
Inspired by a number of existing alternatives, the goal of this project is to provide clean, reliable, current and open source Quick Look plugin for iOS & macOS developers.
Thumbnails will show app icon for .ipa/ .xcarchive or expiration status and device count for .mobileprovision. Quick Look preview will give a lot of information, including devices UUIDs, certificates, entitlements and much more.
Supported file types:
.ipa – iOS packaged application.xcarchive – Xcode archive.appex – iOS/OSX application extension.mobileprovision – iOS provisioning profile.provisionprofile – OSX provisioning profileinddPreview is the successor of inddQLgenerator – a QuickLook Plug-in from 2008 – and comes now as an app with a new version of the QL plug-in on board. The current release runs on macOS 10.8 and above and works with InDesign files from CS2 to CC2018.
It’s available on the Mac App Store.
Phew is an open-source FLIF image viewer and QuickLook plugin for macOS.
The Free Lossless Image Format or FLIF is a novel lossless image format which outperforms PNG, lossless WebP, lossless BPG, lossless JPEG2000, and lossless JPEG XR in terms of compression ratio.
Thanks to Wolfgang for the recommendation.
A QuickLook plugin that lets you view subtitles .srt files. Download from the project’s GitHub page.
Thanks to Théo Attali for the suggestion!
QuickLook plug-in version 5.1 for QuarkXPress projects.
It will allow you to see thumbnails of QuarkXPress Projects (.qxp) in Finder and also provide a QuickLook preview for .qxp files created with QuarkXPress 7, 8, 9, 10, 2015 and 2016.
For support please visit http://forums.quark.com
Support for MXF files is included in Canon’s free XF Utility 3.2 for Mac OS X. The other option is Adobe Bridge however it works only intermittently.
Thanks to Paul Galvan for submitting!
This plugin allows you to QuickLook crossword puzzle files (PUZ). PUZ files are the most common way that crossword puzzles are distributed. The New York Times Crossword puzzle site allows you (with a subscription) to download their crosswords in that format.
More details available at the PUZ project’s GitHub repo.
Quicklook Video allows OSX Finder to display thumbnails, previews and metadata for most types of video files.
QuickLook and Spotlight on OSX 10.9 and later understand a limited number of media files – mostly only MPEG audio and video codecs within MPEG container files. This package adds support for wide range of other codecs and “non-native” media file types, including .asf, .avi, .flv, .mkv, .rm, .webm, .wmf etc.
This Quick Look plug-in is a component of SixtyFour. SixtyFour can be obtained at MacUpdate, https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/40405/sixtyfour/.
The Quick Look plug-in included within SixtyFour extends QuickLook’s standard functionality to display extra info: app architectures, app platform info and bundle version. It is no longer required to fire up the Terminal to get the architectures of an app or inspect the property-list file of an app to get the bundle version.
ReST, or reStructuredText is a text processing system for transforming plaintext documentation into other formats. This plugin provides a reST QuickLook viewer implemented in Nimrod.
Download from the project’s GitHub repo.
A QuickLook plugin for Mac OS X 10.9 that creates a thumbnail of a video as an icon instead of a generic one. When you trigger QuickLook it displays the thumbnail of the video along with the video information such as its title, size, resolution, and more.
The video information is obtained via mediainfo and the thumbnail is made using ffmpeg.
STL are “Stereolithography” files, that are 3D files commonly used in 3D printing.
The plugin is available here:
A simple QuickLook plugin to preview .strings files. Contrary to other QuickLook plugins to preview .strings files, this plugin can preview plain text .strings files as well as binary property list .strings files.
More information can be found on the developer’s blog.
Invisor displays technical information about your video and audio files.
It is based on MediaInfo library and shows detailed info about file’s container and data streams including video, audio, subtitles and chapters.
More information and download from Invisor’s website.
Invisor displays technical information about your video and audio files.
Known Gerber file extension from Altium Designer, CadSoft EAGLE and KiCAD. More information can be found here.
Enables users to just select their Markdown file in Finder and through Quick Look preview them instantly. See how your Markdown file looks on web with just a hit on “Space Bar”.
“As developers of InkMark, we believe that Markdown is the future of writing and we want to make it accessible for everyone. Therefore we are building tools to serve that purpose. Install this plugin to preview your Markdown files with Quick Look.”
qlBitRate is a QuickLook plugin that will display the bitrate (in kbps) of an MP3 file in the title bar of the QuickLook window. This plugin has been tested to work in at least OS X 10.7 (Lion) and 10.8 (Mountain Lion).
Check out the plugin and docs on GitHub here: https://github.com/
List of useful Quick Look plugins for developers, pulled together by sindresorhus.
Allows for previewing the content of several types of Commodore (CBM) related types of files:
The plugin corrects all known problems other “D64” plugins have, adds several more file types, displays the listings in correct font, follows the original formatting as closely as possible and allows character sets shifting like on a real CBM machine. Preview colours are freely configurable on a per-filetype basis with the supplied preferences application. Plugin supports also GZip compressed files without the need to decompress them first.
A full description and more information can be found here.
ExactImage QuickLook with camera RAW support. Download can be found at http://rene.rebe.de/2013-08-11/exactimage-quicklook-w-camera-raw-support/.
WebP is Google’s new image format and OS X doesn’t recognize the .webp files. This plugin will give you an ability to see previews and thumbnails of WebP images.
More information can be found at: https://github.com/emin/WebPQuickLook
DjVu QuickLook is a QuickLook plugin for generating first page previews of djvu documents.
To install, extract and move to /Library/QuickLook folder.
A plug in for QuickLook on Mac OS X for the JPEG XR file format.
JPEG XR is a neat little image format with a lot of features including
It’s also a free and open ISO standard.
Download from https://jpegxrquicklook.codeplex.com.
Supported IFF-features:
* ILBM and PBM
* 1-8 bitplanes
* Extra halfbrite
* Hold and modify
* Transparency
Source code available at https://github.com/dalton-tulou/ql-iff
Coded by David Revelj
QuickLook JSON is a useful quick look plugin to preview JSON files. It will render files with a colorful view, and will allow to expand or compress nodes in the JSON tree.
More information can be found at: http://www.sagtau.com/quicklookjson.html
A QuickLook Plugin to display images dimensions and size in the QuickLook title bar (Very handy for developer / designers). It also dynamically display iPhone’s crushed PNG files in the finder and in QuickLook.
More information can be found at:
http://www.cocoabyss.com/mac-os-x/images-dimensions-in-quicklook/
http://www.cocoabyss.com/quicklook/qlimagesize-iphone-crushed-png/
Thanks, Benjamin!
Thong is a Quick Look plugin to view your .string files with a simple touch. Thanks, Jelle Vandebeeck!
A Quick Look generator to display useful information about StarCraft II replays. The current version of the plugin (v1.0.0) correctly handles all replays (which range from patch 1.0.2 to 1.4.1).
Displayed information includes:
More information and downloads for the plugin can be found here.
Thanks, Félix!
Code signing can be a pain, but the fact that Xcode gives very little information about a mobile provisioning file does not ease things.
Let me introduce a new QuickLook plugin. This plugin allows you to get a QuickLook preview for all .mobileprovision files.
It gives you the name of the profile, its creation and expiration date, its App ID, and a sorted list of all the UDIDs included.
More information can be found here: http://www.macmation.com/blog/2011/10/quicklook-plugin-for-mobile-provision-files/
cert-quicklook is a plug-in for QuickLook to easily generate previews of various unprotected certificate tokens.
Currently includes support for X509 certificates, DER or PEM (ASCII-armored).
Future plans includes extending for other types of data: keys, revocation lists, signing requests, e.t.c.
Tested with MacOS 10.5.8/10.6.6/10.7.1
More information can be found here: http://code.google.com/p/cert-quicklook/
Francesco just released a beta version of an Outlook 2011 for Mac plug-in, to view header message of type olk14Message.
You can download the plug-in here:
http://www.germinara.it/downlo
Thanks, Francesco!
It has been brought to our attention that some plug-ins do not work with OS X 10.7/Lion.
Since we do not actually develop the plug-ins we list on this site, we cannot investigate each one. Instead we thought we would setup this post to allow for users to comment and allow for discussion on tips and tricks for getting plug-ins to work with 10.7.
So feel free to leave a comment with your experience and especially if you have tips for getting plug-ins to work with Lion. All comments are moderated.
QLStephen is an Apple OSX QuickLook plugin that lets you view plain text files without a file extension. It is useful for reading files like:
README
INSTALL
CHANGELOG
Makefile
Rakefile
CapFile
Description from developer:
“These are files that the default QuickLook plugins doesn’t handle. It was built to scratch an itch, as I was finding that quicklook is useful for searching through source before I installed new programs, and the first file I would want to see, the README was the only file I coudn’t. QLStephen solves that.”
More information can be found at http://whomwah.github.com/qlstephen/.
MetaDesign Solutions has released a QuickLook Plug-in which has some great features and wide support for various document formats. The plugin extends QuickLook to support InDesign, QuarkXPress, InCopy, Adobe Swatch Exchange & Illustrator File Formats, with more file formats coming soon.
For more details, visit:
http://www.
QuickLook generator for Nintendo DS ROM image files. Creates thumbnails using game logo image. In preview mode displays also game title and additional info (if any).
A Spotlight importer and QuickLook plugin for the X3F RAW image format for Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6.
Download here: http://www.corpus-callosum.com/software.html
Max OSX QuickLook Plugin for previewing NFO files.
Uses libiconv to convert the nfo text to utf8 and then lets WebKit render the output.
Currently, the plugin can only generate a preview.
Download here: http://github.com/planbnet/QuickNFO
A QuickLook plugin for CSV files.
The plugin will generate Icons for csv (comma separated) and tsv (tab separated) files and show a preview, along with some information (like num rows/columns).
To download, visit the project page at http://code.google.com/p/quicklook-csv/.
QuickLook plugin for FB2 e-book file format. Creates thumbnails using cover image. In preview mode displays some additional information like authors and title.
More information available on the developer’s website: http://bluezbox.com/fb2ql.html
A plug-in for viewing PVR textures.
This plug-in ships with atPeek, but is also available as a free download from:
http://atpeek.download.atpurpose.com/PvrUncrush.zip
The atPeek project page which uses this plug-in is at:
http://www.atpurpose.com/atPeek/
A QuickLook plug-in for viewing iPhone crushed Png files (native iPhone format).
From the developers, atPurpose Technologies:
The direct download link to PngUncrush QuickLook plug-in, which is free to download and use, is:
http://atpeek.download.atpurpose.com/PngUncrush.zip
The atPeek project page which uses this plug-in is at:
http://www.atpurpose.com/atPeek/
“This is a QuickLook plugin for MacOS-X 10.5/10.6 that allows QuickLook preview of Animated GIFs. The current GIF support in the Finder doesn’t show animations. This plugin extends the Finder to allow QuickLook to display the GIF in its animated form.”
It has been brought to our attention that some plug-ins do not work with OS X 10.6/Snow Leopard.
Since we do not actually develop the plug-ins we list on this site, we cannot investigate each one. Instead we thought we would setup this post to allow for users to comment and allow for discussion on tips and tricks for getting plug-ins to work with 10.6.
So feel free to leave a comment with your experience and especially if you have tips for getting plug-ins to work with Snow Leopard. All comments are moderated, but will be published at least once a day.
The first Quick Look Plugin geared specifically for photographers.
From the plug-in’s website:
“With SneakPeek Photo simply click on the unopened photo file (no matter where it is, even on your card reader) and hit the space bar. Up pops the picture into a large view that immediately gives you the detailed information you need. On the top bar, the much needed basics such as the type of file, its size, f-stop, focal length, color Sfile (sRGB, ProPhoto, etc) even a mini histogram. But there’s much more. Also on this view you’ll see buttons which will give you Exif data, all the camera settings, a Loupe View with high resolution zooms, and a large Histogram to see the blueprint of your shot. If the photo is geotagged, you’ll not only see the coordinates, but a nifty map of where the picture was taken. Plus there’s even a link to a more detailed map online.”
Cost: $10
You can get more information by visiting the plug-in’s website at:
http://www.code-line.com/software/sneakpeekphoto/
ImageFolderQLGenerator is an open-source QuickLook plug-in that creates thumbnails and previews for folders that contain image files. The thumbnails and previews it generates look like the normal folder icons, only with small thumbnails of some of the contained images overlaid on top.
More information and download at ImageFolderQLGenerator developer’s website.
QLFits 2.0
Preview FITS header+images/spectra directly inside the Finder!
Released: 2009-07-16
http://www.softtenebraslux.com
QLFits allows you to see FITS files right into your Finder, without opening the file! It automatically generates on-the-fly a colorized header, with images and/or spectra below! It even supports multi-extension fits files. Even better, it detects ESO keywords, and build automatic links to the proposal abstract, the file summary, and even the weather conditions!
Features:
• Colorized header.
• Quick summary + Full header
• Automatic detection of ESO keywords
• Links to ESO archive seeing/prog id pages (when possible)
• Support for multi-extensiom FITS files!
• On-the-fly preview of 2D images!
• On-the-fly preview of 1D spectra!
• For 2D images: On-the-fly thumbnail of 1st extension that contains data
• For 1D spectra: On-the-fly thumbnail of the spectrum
• Display of the value of the “OBJECT” header keyword, with large fonts.
Notes: images pixels are scaled linearly (it produces in general better results than linear or logarithmic-zscaling). If no data are present in the FITS, only the header is shown.
Thanks, Cédric!
This Quick Look genÂerÂaÂtor disÂplays the conÂtents of a metainfo “.torrent” file.  Useful if you ever have to sort through torÂrent files that are named by 10 year old chilÂdren, but donÂ’t feel like firing up your client just to see whatÂ’s in it.
More information can be found on the developer’s site.
Download qltorrent-1.0.dmg here.
Thanks, “Crankie”.