Icaros is a collection of lightweight, high quality, Windows Shell Extensions that provide Windows Explorer thumbnails for many media filetypes.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- File Explorer
Sweden
EU
SageThumbs AlternativesImage Viewers and other similar apps like SageThumbs
SageThumbs is described as 'Windows Explorer context menu extension allowing Windows users to preview enormous amounts of image formats directly within Windows Explorer' and is a popular Image Viewer in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 10 alternatives to SageThumbs for Windows, File Explorer, F-Droid and Android. The best SageThumbs alternative is Icaros, which is free. Other great apps like SageThumbs are XnShell, SageThumbs 2K, Pictus and MysticThumbs.
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XnShell is a free File Explorer extension that installs a number of image-related tools in the right-click context menu, including a thumbnail preview, image conversion to a wide variety of formats, image resizing, editing image IPTC...
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Windows
- Windows Explorer
France- EU
A modern, crash-isolated Rust shell extension for Windows 11, the clean-room revival of the legendary (but decade-abandoned) SageThumbs.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- File Explorer
18 Pictus alternativesPictus is a fast, free image viewer that enables Windows to see thumbnails of supported formats, such as PSD. Give it a spin today!
Platforms
- Windows
- Windows Explorer
- Sweden
- EU
13 MysticThumbs alternativesMysticThumbs generates thumbnails of many image types not natively supported by Windows. It does this transparently and in the background for Explorer so you don't have to run a separate application to preview your images.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
- Windows Explorer
Australia
- 14 Instant ThumbView alternatives
Instant ThumbView is a tiny image viewer that displays image thumbnails in a tooltip window, when mouse pointer is hovered over an image file in Windows Explorer. It supports a lot of popular image file formats, including BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, WMF, EMF, TIFF and is very handy for...
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Windows
- Windows Explorer
United States
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Extension module for Windows Explorer to render SVG thumbnails, so that you can have an overview of your SVG files.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Windows
FastPreview was created in need of a usable PicaView replacement which was discontinued at the time.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
- Windows Explorer
“Smart SVG Viewer” is a free, fast and convenient SVG image viewer with Thumbnail Gallery and Transparency Grid. It is a must-have tool for UI/UX design, Web design, and Graphic design.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
PicaView is the simple, no-hassle image viewing solution. This is an add-on for viewing images in File Explorer that lets you right-click on an image file to bring up a miniature image and image file information.
Platforms
- Windows
- Windows Explorer
Canada
ThumbView enables image thumbnails and tooltips in Microsoft Windows XP Explorer (does not work on Windows 7) for filetypes that are not natively supported. It started with PCX, TGA, DDS and PNG images, but now ThumbView supports an amazing 19 image types - directly inside any...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
- Windows Explorer
A collection of extensions tools for SVG files, integrated into Microsoft Windows Explorer (Vista, 7, 8, 10 and 11):
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
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Platforms
- Windows
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