Quick Look plugins

List of useful 🌎 Quick Look plugins for developers

Install

Using 🌎 Homebrew

• Run brew install <package>

Catalina notes

To get many plugins working in Catalina and later, 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

Manually

• Click "download manually"
• Move the downloaded .qlgenerator file to ~/Library/QuickLook
• Run qlmanage -r

Plugins

  2843⭐    161🍴 QLStephen)

Preview plain text files without or with unknown file extension. Example: README, CHANGELOG, index.styl, etc.

Run brew install qlstephen or      ?⭐      ?🍴 download manually)

  3749⭐    118🍴 QLMarkdown)

Preview Markdown files

Run brew install --cask qlmarkdown or      ?⭐      ?🍴 download manually)

QuickLookJSON

Preview JSON files

Download manually

🌎 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

  3641⭐    131🍴 QLVideo)

Preview most types of video files, as well as their thumbnails, cover art and metadata

Run brew install qlvideo or      ?⭐      ?🍴 download manually)

🌎 Source Code Preview 💰

Includes 10+ color themes and syntax highlighting for 50+ languages, including JavaScript, Python, Java, CSS, and JSON.

Purchase on the 🌎 App Store.

🌎 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 🌎 App Store.

The app is abandoned and buggy, but still functional.

🌎 Folder Preview 💰

Quick look inside folders and archives.

Purchase on the 🌎 App Store.

🌎 Folder Quick Look 💰

Preview folder and archive contents (ZIP, RAR, and more).

Purchase on the 🌎 App Store.

  1327⭐     39🍴 FluxMarkdown)

Preview Markdown files with Mermaid diagrams, KaTeX math, GFM support, and interactive table of contents.

Run brew tap xykong/tap && brew install --cask flux-markdown or      ?⭐      ?🍴 download manually)

🌎 Markdown Preview 💰

Quick look Markdown files with KaTex and Mermaid support.

Purchase on the 🌎 App Store.

🌎 EPS Preview 💰

EPS Preview adds Quick Look and thumbnails of EPS files to Finder.

Purchase on the 🌎 website.

  2472⭐    162🍴 ProvisionQL)

Preview iOS / macOS app and provision information

Run brew install provisionql or      ?⭐      ?🍴 download manually)

   288⭐     24🍴 WebP)

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)

  4345⭐    106🍴 SourceCodeSyntaxHighlight)

Preview many different source code files

Run brew install --cask --no-quarantine syntax-highlight or      ?⭐      ?🍴 download manually)

Note: This might overwrite some other Quick Look plugins.

    21⭐      2🍴 Burrete)

Preview PDB, mmCIF, SDF, XYZ, trajectories, and chemistry tables in Finder

     ?⭐      ?🍴 Download manually)

    30⭐      2🍴 Preview3MF)

Preview 3MF 3D-printing models — real 3D rendering plus Finder thumbnails

Run brew install --cask cavoco/tap/preview3mf or      ?⭐      ?🍴 download manually)

License

To the extent possible under law, 🌎 Sindre Sorhus has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.

Source

 18800⭐    551🍴 sindresorhus/quick-look-plugins)