https://github.com/Correia-jpv/fucking-quick-look-plugins
List of useful Quick Look plugins for developers. With repository stars⭐ and forks🍴
https://github.com/Correia-jpv/fucking-quick-look-plugins
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List of useful Quick Look plugins for developers. With repository stars⭐ and forks🍴
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/Correia-jpv/fucking-quick-look-plugins
- Owner: Correia-jpv
- Created: 2022-02-06T12:20:16.000Z (over 4 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2026-03-02T05:33:03.000Z (4 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-03-02T09:56:13.544Z (3 months ago)
- Topics: awesome, awesome-list, awesome-lists, homebrew, plugin, plugins, quick-look, quick-lookup, quicklook, quicklook-plugin
- Homepage:
- Size: 11 MB
- Stars: 76
- Watchers: 4
- Forks: 2
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
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- awesome - fucking-quick-look-plugins - A curated awesome-style list of useful Quick Look plugins for developers, including GitHub star and fork counts for each plugin. Focused on macOS Quick Look enhancements and tagged as an awesome-list/awesome-lists collection. ([Read more](/details/fucking-quick-look-plugins.md)) `macos` `developer-tools` `awesome-lists` (Themed Directories)
README
# Quick Look plugins [](https://awesome.re)
> List of useful 🌎 [Quick Look](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quick_Look) plugins for developers
## Install
### Using 🌎 [Homebrew](brew.sh)
- Run `brew install `
##### 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
### 2810⭐ 165🍴 [QLStephen](https://github.com/whomwah/qlstephen))
> Preview plain text files without or with unknown file extension. Example: README, CHANGELOG, index.styl, etc.
Run `brew install qlstephen` or ?⭐ ?🍴 [download manually](https://github.com/whomwah/qlstephen/releases/latest))
[](https://github.com/whomwah/qlstephen)
### 2364⭐ 63🍴 [QLMarkdown](https://github.com/sbarex/QLMarkdown))
> Preview Markdown files
Run `brew install --cask qlmarkdown` or ?⭐ ?🍴 [download manually](https://github.com/sbarex/QLMarkdown/releases/latest))
[](https://github.com/sbarex/QLMarkdown)
### [QuickLookJSON](http://www.sagtau.com/quicklookjson.html)
> Preview JSON files
[Download manually](http://www.sagtau.com/media/QuickLookJSON.qlgenerator.zip)
[](http://www.sagtau.com/quicklookjson.html)
### 🌎 [BetterZipQL](macitbetter.com/downloads/)
> 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](macitbetter.com/BetterZip.zip)
The legacy BetterZipQL plugin can be 🌎 [downloaded here](macitbetter.com/dl/BetterZipQL-1.5.zip).
[](https://macitbetter.com/BetterZip-Quick-Look-Generator/)
### 🌎 [Suspicious Package](www.mothersruin.com/software/SuspiciousPackage/)
> Preview the contents of a standard Apple installer package
Run `brew install suspicious-package` or 🌎 [download manually](www.mothersruin.com/software/downloads/SuspiciousPackage.xip)
[](https://www.mothersruin.com/software/SuspiciousPackage/)
### 🌎 [Apparency](www.mothersruin.com/software/Apparency/)
> Preview the contents of a macOS app
Run `brew install apparency` or 🌎 [download manually](mothersruin.com/software/downloads/Apparency.dmg)
[](https://mothersruin.com/software/Apparency/)
### 3290⭐ 110🍴 [QLVideo](https://github.com/Marginal/QLVideo))
> Preview most types of video files, as well as their thumbnails, cover art and metadata
Run `brew install qlvideo` or ?⭐ ?🍴 [download manually](https://github.com/Marginal/QLVideo/releases/latest))
[](https://github.com/Marginal/QLVideo)
### 🌎 [Peek](bigzlabs.com/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](apps.apple.com/app/peek-quick-look-extension/id1554235898).
*The app is abandoned and buggy, but still functional.*
[](https://bigzlabs.com/peek)
### 🌎 [Folder Preview](anybox.ltd/folder-preview) 💰
> Quick look inside folders and archives.
Purchase on the 🌎 [App Store](apps.apple.com/app/folder-preview/id6698876601).
[](https://anybox.ltd/folder-preview)
### 34⭐ 1🍴 [FluxMarkdown](https://github.com/xykong/flux-markdown))
> 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](https://github.com/xykong/flux-markdown/releases/latest))
[](https://github.com/xykong/flux-markdown)
### 🌎 [Markdown Preview](anybox.ltd/markdown-preview) 💰
> Quick look Markdown files with KaTex and Mermaid support.
Purchase on the 🌎 [App Store](apps.apple.com/app/markdown-preview-quick-look/id6739955340).
[](https://anybox.ltd/markdown-preview)
### 🌎 [EPS Preview](anybox.ltd/eps-preview) 💰
> EPS Preview adds Quick Look and thumbnails of EPS files to Finder.
Purchase on the 🌎 [website](anybox.ltd/eps-preview).
[](https://anybox.ltd/eps-preview)
### 2431⭐ 161🍴 [ProvisionQL](https://github.com/ealeksandrov/ProvisionQL))
> Preview iOS / macOS app and provision information
Run `brew install provisionql` or ?⭐ ?🍴 [download manually](https://github.com/ealeksandrov/ProvisionQL/releases/latest))
[](https://github.com/ealeksandrov/ProvisionQL)
### 288⭐ 24🍴 [WebP](https://github.com/dchest/webp-quicklook))
> 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](https://github.com/dchest/webp-quicklook/releases/latest))
[](https://github.com/dchest/webp-quicklook)
### 3911⭐ 94🍴 [SourceCodeSyntaxHighlight](https://github.com/sbarex/SourceCodeSyntaxHighlight))
> Preview many different source code files
Run `brew install --cask --no-quarantine syntax-highlight` or ?⭐ ?🍴 [download manually](https://github.com/sbarex/SourceCodeSyntaxHighlight/releases/latest))
[](https://github.com/sbarex/SourceCodeSyntaxHighlight)
**Note:** This might overwrite some other Quick Look plugins.
## License
[](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
To the extent possible under law, 🌎 [Sindre Sorhus](sindresorhus.com) has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.
## Source
18574⭐ 540🍴 [sindresorhus/quick-look-plugins](https://github.com/sindresorhus/quick-look-plugins))