List of useful Quick Look plugins for developers

• Run brew install <package>

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

• Click "download manually"
• Move the downloaded .qlgenerator file to ~/Library/QuickLook
• Run qlmanage -r

Preview plain text files without or with unknown file extension. Example: README, CHANGELOG, index.styl, etc.

Run brew install qlstephen or download manually

Preview Markdown files

Run brew install --cask qlmarkdown or download manually

Preview JSON files

Run brew install quicklook-json or download manually

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

The legacy BetterZipQL plugin can be downloaded here.

Preview the contents of a standard Apple installer package

Run brew install suspicious-package or download manually

Preview the contents of a macOS app

Run brew install apparency or download manually

Preview most types of video files, as well as their thumbnails, cover art and metadata

Run brew install qlvideo or download manually

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.

The app is abandoned and buggy, but still functional.

Preview folders and ZIP files with the familiar experience of Finder.

Purchase on the App Store.

Preview iOS / macOS app and provision information

Run brew install provisionql or download manually

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

Preview many different source code files

Run brew install --cask --no-quarantine syntax-highlight or download manually

Note: This might overwrite some other Quick Look plugins.

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