Quick Look plugins

List of useful 🌎 Quick Look plugins for developers

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

Manually

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

Plugins

   662⭐     47🍴 QLColorCode)

Preview source code files with syntax highlighting

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

  2734⭐    163🍴 QLStephen)

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

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

  3221⭐    143🍴 QLMarkdown)

Preview Markdown files

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

QuickLookJSON

Preview JSON files

Run brew install quicklook-json or 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.

  1183⭐     66🍴 qlImageSize)

Display image size and resolution

Run brew install qlimagesize or   1183⭐     66🍴 download manually)

🌎 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

    42⭐      1🍴 QuickLookASE)

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)

  2477⭐     86🍴 QLVideo)

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

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

More

These are not included in Install all.

🌎 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

  2305⭐    142🍴 ProvisionQL)

Preview iOS / macOS app and provision information

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

   144⭐     36🍴 QuickLookAPK)

Preview Android APK files

Run brew install quicklookapk or    144⭐     36🍴 download manually)

    33⭐      0🍴 quicklook-pat)

Preview Adobe Photoshop pattern files

Run brew install quicklook-pat or      ?⭐      ?🍴 download manually)

   283⭐     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)

  2706⭐     67🍴 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.

License

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

Source

 17833⭐    534🍴 sindresorhus/quick-look-plugins)