AppAddict
August 24th, 2024

11 Plugins for QuickLook

Mac Apps
BetterZip via QuickLook
BetterZip via QuickLook


One of my favorite features of macOS is QuickLook, activated by pressing the spacebar when you have a file highlighted in the Finder, it enables you to view the contents of a file without having to open an application. The problem is that there are many file types that don't have native support, including compressed files, certain video formats and Markdown. Luckily Apple permits plugins for the QuickLook architecture and the Apple development community has a great many of them free to download and install.

  1. Better Zip is a free file compression app that, when installed, also provides a QuickLook plugin for seeing what's included in zipped files. 
  2. QLMarkdown is for viewing Markdown files rendered as HTML 
  3. QuickLook JSON 
  4. Apparency is an app that when installed will give you plentiful information with QuickLook and even more if you choose "Open with Apparency" 
  5. QLVideo - This package adds support for wide range of other codecs and "non-native" media file types, including .asf, .avi, .flv, .mkv, .rm, .webm, .wmf
  6. SourceCodeSyntaxHighlight - for developers
  7. QLFits - for Garmin watch files
  8. QuickLook-gpx - for GPX (map) files
  9. QuickLook-csv - for comma separated value files
  10. Suspicious Package - shows the contents of macOS package files
  11. Simple Comic on the Mac App Store - view comic book files in QuickLook