Kiview Alternatives

Kiview is described as 'Gives the user the ability to quickly preview different file types without the need to launch the default application' and is an app in the office & productivity category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Kiview for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Flatpak and Homebrew apps. The best Kiview alternative is Folder Quick Look. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Preview or GNOME Sushi. Other great apps like Kiview are Seer Pro, Folder Preview, WinQuickLook and QLStephen.

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  1. Folder Quick Look is a macOS extension that enhances the system’s Quick Look feature by allowing users to instantly preview the contents of folders and compressed archives without opening them. Once installed, you can simply select a folder or supported archive format (such as...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  2. Preview icon
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    Native macOS app for viewing, annotating, and editing images and PDFs, featuring tools for cropping, rotating, resizing images, rearranging pages, full-screen viewing, markup, document merging, batch conversion, and export in multiple formats.

    191 Preview alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    • iPad
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  3. Seer Pro icon
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    This is a quick look tool for Windows. Acts just like the one in OS X , but Seer is more powerful and faster.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  4. GNOME Sushi icon
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    GNOME sushi is a file previewer for the GNOME desktop environment. It is available as a standalone package that integrates with GNOME Files (formerly named Nautilus).

    9 GNOME Sushi alternatives

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    • Linux
    • GNOME
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  5. Folder Preview is a Quick Look extension that lets you preview the contents of a folder.

    23 Folder Preview alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  6. WinQuickLook icon
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    WinQuickLook allows you to select a file in Windows Explorer or on your desktop and then simply press the spacebar to see the contents of the file without having to open it with a special application.

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    • Windows
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  7. QLStephen icon
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    QLStephen is an Apple OSX Quick Look plugin that lets you view plain text files without a file extension. It is useful for reading files like README, INSTALL, CHANGELOG, Makefile, Rakefile and CapFile (files that the default Quick Look plugins don't handle).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  8. By default, macOS doesn't provide previews and thumbnails for WebP, a modern image format providing superior, lossless and lossy compression for images on the web. WebPQuickLook fills this gap by allowing you to see previews and thumbnails of .webp images on your Mac.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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  9. This application offers a quicklook extension for MacOS 10.15 Catalina or later for previewing source files. Inside it uses Highlight to render source code with syntax highlighting. The application is distributed with a version of the highlight.

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    • Mac
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  10. Wouldn't it be great if Mac OS X's Quick Look would let you inspect the contents of compressed archives? With the help of the BetterZip Quick Look Generator, it can.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  11. Quick Eye icon
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    Quick Eye is a quick look application for Windows. Just press the space bar to quickly preview files. This software is also recommended for people who are used to macOS.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  12. When Quick Look spacebar preview of your Mac doesn't work and you end up with the thumbnail of the photo, you can use Quick Look Fix from the menu bar.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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