QuickLook

Instant File Previews, Just Press Space

The most powerful Quick Look implementation for Windows

The Problem

Superpowers

Get Started

Extend

Community

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💡 The Problem

Ever wished Windows had macOS's Quick Look? You know the drill: you want to peek at a file, so you double-click, wait for an app to launch, view the file, close the app... exhausting, right? macOS users? They just press Space. Instant preview. Any file. Now Windows has it too. 🎉 QuickLook brings that buttery-smooth, instant-preview experience to Windows. No more waiting. No more opening heavy applications just to peek at a document.

WITHOUT QuickLook: ┌─────────────────┐ │ 1. Double click │ │ 2. Wait... │ │ 3. App loads │ │ 4. View file │ │ 5. Close app │ └─────────────────┘ ⏱️ ~10 seconds WITH QuickLook: ┌─────────────────┐ │ 1. Press SPACE │ │ 2. Done! ✨ │ └─────────────────┘ ⚡ ~0.2 seconds

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🚀 Superpowers

What Makes QuickLook Extraordinary

⚡️ Lightning Speed Instant previews with zero lag Native performance that feels like magic Hardware-accelerated rendering

🎨 Gorgeous Design Fluent Design System integration Beautiful on 4K displays Touch-optimized interface

🌈 100+ Formats Images, videos, documents, code 3D models, archives, fonts Extensible with plugins

📸 Visual Files 🖼️ Images (JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP, RAW) 🎬 Videos (MP4, AVI, MKV, MOV) 🎨 Photoshop (PSD), Illustrator (AI) 📐 3D Models (OBJ, STL, FBX) 🎭 Animated GIFs & APNGs 📄 Documents 📝 PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint 📋 Text files with syntax highlighting 📊 Markdown with live rendering 📜 E-books (EPUB, MOBI) 📑 Comics (CBZ, CBR)

💻 Developer Files 🐍 Python, JavaScript, C++, Rust 🌐 HTML, CSS, JSON, XML ⚙️ Config files (YAML, TOML, INI) 📦 Archives (ZIP, RAR, 7Z, TAR) 🔧 Binary files with hex view 🎵 Media 🎵 Audio (MP3, FLAC, WAV, AAC) 🎼 Sheet music 🎨 Fonts (TTF, OTF, WOFF) 🖌️ Vector graphics (SVG, EPS) 📹 Subtitles (SRT, ASS)

🎯 Works Everywhere

File Explorer Native integration

Open/Save Dialogs System-wide support

3rd Party Managers Total Commander, xplorer²

Cloud Storage OneDrive, Dropbox ready

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📦 Get Started

Choose Your Adventure

Microsoft Store Recommended for most users ✅ Automatic updates ✅ Sandboxed security ✅ One-click install ⚠️ Limited Open/Save dialog support

Installer Full-featured experience ✅ Complete functionality ✅ Open/Save dialog support ✅ Portable option available 💎 Get the full power

Scoop For command-line lovers ✅ Easy updates ✅ Reproducible installs ✅ Version management scoop bucket add extras scoop install quicklook 🤓 Power user choice

Nightly Live on the edge ✅ Latest features ✅ Bug fixes first ⚠️ May be unstable 🌙 Experimental builds

🤔 Not sure which version to choose?

Feature	Store	Installer	Scoop	Nightly
Auto-updates	✅	⚠️	✅	⚠️
Open/Save dialogs	❌	✅	✅	✅
Portable mode	❌	✅	❌	✅
Stability	✅✅✅	✅✅✅	✅✅✅	✅✅

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⚡ Quick Start in 10 Seconds

Step 1️⃣ Install QuickLook ↓ Step 2️⃣ It runs automatically ↓ Step 3️⃣ Select any file ↓ Step 4️⃣ Press SPACE ↓ Step 5️⃣ 🎉 Magic happens!

💡 Pro Tips: QuickLook lives in your system tray Works with any file in File Explorer Use arrow keys to preview multiple files Press Esc or Space again to close Drag files directly from the preview!

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⌨️ Master the Shortcuts

Your New Superpowers

🎮 Basic Controls Key Action Space Toggle preview Esc Space Close window Enter Open file ↑ ↓ Next/Previous

🔍 Navigation Key Action ← → Navigate files Mouse Click Select file Page Up Down Scroll content Home End Jump to start/end

🎨 Advanced Key Action Wheel Zoom (images) Ctrl+Wheel Zoom (PDFs) L-Click Drag Rotate 3D M-Click Drag Pan 3D

💡 Pro Tip: You can navigate files using arrow keys even when the preview window isn't focused!

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🧩 Extend

Supercharge QuickLook with Plugins

Transform QuickLook into a universal file viewer

OfficeViewer Preview Word, Excel & PowerPoint files No Microsoft Office required! ✅ Native Office formats ✅ Standalone viewer ✅ Fast rendering	PdfViewer-Native Enhanced PDF viewing with WebView2 Modern, fast, feature-rich ✅ Smooth scrolling ✅ Search & annotations ✅ Hardware acceleration
PostScriptViewer Preview .ps and .eps files Perfect for designers ✅ Vector rendering ✅ High quality output ✅ Professional formats	CADImport View CAD files natively .dwg, .dxf, .plt, .cgm ✅ Engineering drawings ✅ Architecture files ✅ Technical diagrams

📦 How to Install or Upgrade Plugins

1️⃣ Download Get the .qlplugin file

2️⃣ Install Ensure QuickLook is currently running, select the file and press Spacebar.

3️⃣ Restart Click on the Install button, then restart QuickLook.

📦 How to Remove Plugins

1️⃣ Quit Quit QuickLook.

2️⃣ Navigate Navigate to the Data location.

3️⃣ Remove You should find several folders. Remove the one you do not want to use.

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💖 Community

Join Thousands of Happy Users

QQ Group Join our Chinese community 371388501

Translate Help QuickLook speak your language Make it accessible

Star Us Show your support It means a lot!

👨‍💻 For Developers

Interested in contributing? Check out our development resources:

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🙏 Credits

Built with Love by Amazing People

Design Team @OiCkilL @QubitsDev Donno Fluent UI & Icons

Contributors Our Amazing Team Code, translations & ideas

Open Source Libraries We Use Standing on giants

You! Every User Matters Thank you for using QuickLook

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📜 License

QuickLook is free and open source under GPL-3.0

Free software, free forever. No ads, no tracking, no premium tiers.

Need commercial licensing? Contact us for sublicensing options.

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