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Sep 20 - Sep 26, 2021
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Peek 💰
Peek allows you to copy and find text, jump to line numbers, render Github-flavored Markdown with a generated table of contents, restore scroll positions, highlight syntax, & more in the Quick Look previews of over 300 file extensions.
Purchase on the Mac App Store
Dec 21 - Dec 27, 2020
Plugins
BetterZipQL
Preview archives
Note: The BetterZipQL plugin was integrated with the BetterZip app.
Run brew install betterzip
to install the BetterZip app and its Quick Look plugin or download manually
The legacy BetterZipQL plugin can be downloaded here.
Suspicious Package
Preview the contents of a standard Apple installer package
Run brew install suspicious-package
or download manually
Apparency
Preview the contents of a macOS app
Run brew install apparency
or download manually
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SourceCodeSyntaxHighlight (⭐1.6k)
Preview many different source code files
Run brew install --cask --no-quarantine syntax-highlight
or download manually (⭐1.6k)
Note: This might overwrite some other Quick Look plugins.
To the extent possible under law, Sindre Sorhus has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.
Jan 27 - Feb 02, 2020
Install
Using Homebrew
- Run
brew install <package>
Install all
brew install qlcolorcode qlstephen qlmarkdown quicklook-json qlimagesize suspicious-package apparency quicklookase qlvideo
Catalina notes
To get plugins working in Catalina, you will need to remove the quarantine attribute.
Run this to see the attributes:
xattr -r ~/Library/QuickLook
And run this to remove the attributes:
xattr -d -r com.apple.quarantine ~/Library/QuickLook
Jul 22 - Jul 28, 2019
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WebP (⭐279)
Preview WebP images
NOTE: This is already covered by
qlImageSize
, so this plugin is listed here only in case you do not likeqlImageSize
.
Run brew install webpquicklook
or download manually (⭐279)
Jan 09 - Jan 15, 2017
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quicklook-pat (⭐29)
Preview Adobe Photoshop pattern files
Run brew install quicklook-pat
or download manually (⭐29)
Nov 21 - Nov 27, 2016
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QuickLookAPK (⭐137)
Preview Android APK files
Run brew install quicklookapk
or download manually (⭐137)
Oct 31 - Nov 06, 2016
Plugins
QuickLookASE (⭐35)
Preview Adobe ASE Color Swatches generated with Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Color CC, Spectrum, COLOURlovers, Prisma, among many others.
Run brew install quicklookase
or download manually (⭐35)
May 30 - Jun 05, 2016
Plugins
QLColorCode (⭐608)
Preview source code files with syntax highlighting
Run brew install qlcolorcode
or download manually (⭐608)
Jan 05 - Jan 11, 2015
Plugins
qlImageSize (⭐1.1k)
Display image size and resolution
Run brew install qlimagesize
or download manually (⭐1.1k)
Aug 04 - Aug 10, 2014
Plugins
QLStephen (⭐2.6k)
Preview plain text files without or with unknown file extension. Example: README, CHANGELOG, index.styl, etc.
Run brew install qlstephen
or download manually (⭐2.6k)
QLMarkdown (⭐3.1k)
Preview Markdown files
Run brew install qlmarkdown
or download manually
QuickLookJSON
Preview JSON files
Run brew install quicklook-json
or download manually
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ProvisionQL (⭐2.1k)
Preview iOS / macOS app and provision information
Run brew install provisionql
or download manually (⭐2.1k)
May 12 - May 18, 2014
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QLVideo (⭐2.1k)
Preview most types of video files, as well as their thumbnails, cover art and metadata
Run brew install qlvideo
or download manually (⭐2.1k)
These are not included in Install all.
Dec 09 - Dec 15, 2013
Plugins
Manually
- Click "download manually"
- Move the downloaded .qlgenerator file to
~/Library/QuickLook
- Run
qlmanage -r