List of useful 🌎 Quick Look plugins for developers
Using 🌎 Homebrew
- Run
brew install <package>
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
- Click "download manually"
- Move the downloaded .qlgenerator file to
~/Library/QuickLook - Run
qlmanage -r
2834⭐ 162🍴 QLStephen)
Preview plain text files without or with unknown file extension. Example: README, CHANGELOG, index.styl, etc.
Run brew install qlstephen or ?⭐ ?🍴 download manually)
3338⭐ 98🍴 QLMarkdown)
Preview Markdown files
Run brew install --cask qlmarkdown or ?⭐ ?🍴 download manually)
Preview JSON files
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.
Preview the contents of a standard Apple installer package
Run brew install suspicious-package or 🌎 download manually
Preview the contents of a macOS app
Run brew install apparency or 🌎 download manually
3525⭐ 123🍴 QLVideo)
Preview most types of video files, as well as their thumbnails, cover art and metadata
Run brew install qlvideo or ?⭐ ?🍴 download manually)
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.
Preview folder and archive contents (ZIP, RAR, and more).
Purchase on the 🌎 App Store.
1214⭐ 34🍴 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.
2454⭐ 161🍴 ProvisionQL)
Preview iOS / macOS app and provision information
Run brew install provisionql or ?⭐ ?🍴 download manually)
289⭐ 24🍴 WebP)
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)
4209⭐ 99🍴 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.
20⭐ 0🍴 Burrete)
Preview PDB, mmCIF, SDF, XYZ, trajectories, and chemistry tables in Finder
?⭐ ?🍴 Download manually)
8⭐ 0🍴 Preview3MF)
Preview 3MF 3D-printing models — real 3D rendering plus Finder thumbnails
Run brew install --cask cavoco/tap/preview3mf or ?⭐ ?🍴 download manually)
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18737⭐ 549🍴 sindresorhus/quick-look-plugins)