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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.

CC0

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

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 like qlImageSize.

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