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Dec 22 - Dec 28, 2025

Plugins

QLMarkdown (⭐2k)

Preview Markdown files

Run brew install --cask qlmarkdown or download manually (⭐2k)

Apr 28 - May 04, 2025

Plugins

Folder Preview 💰

Preview folders and ZIP files with the familiar experience of Finder.

Purchase on the App Store.

Sep 20 - Sep 26, 2021

Plugins

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.

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

License

SourceCodeSyntaxHighlight (⭐3.8k)

Preview many different source code files

Run brew install --cask --no-quarantine syntax-highlight or download manually (⭐3.8k)

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

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

Jul 22 - Jul 28, 2019

Plugins

WebP (⭐288)

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 (⭐288)

Aug 04 - Aug 10, 2014

Plugins

QLStephen (⭐2.8k)

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

Run brew install qlstephen or download manually (⭐2.8k)

QuickLookJSON

Preview JSON files

Run brew install quicklook-json or download manually

ProvisionQL (⭐2.4k)

Preview iOS / macOS app and provision information

Run brew install provisionql or download manually (⭐2.4k)

May 12 - May 18, 2014

Plugins

QLVideo (⭐3.2k)

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

Run brew install qlvideo or download manually (⭐3.2k)

Dec 09 - Dec 15, 2013

Plugins

Manually