# sindresorhus/quick-look-plugins

List of useful Quick Look plugins for developers

Repository: https://github.com/sindresorhus/quick-look-plugins
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/quick-look-plugins
License Family: other
Last push: 2026-07-25T15:31:05+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 75/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 94, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4652, "days_push": 39, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 18753, forks 548 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:27.092501+00:00)

## What it is
A curated awesome-list of Quick Look plugins for macOS that let developers preview file types like Markdown, JSON, archives, and plain text directly in Finder. It includes Homebrew install commands and setup notes for newer macOS versions.

## Use cases
- preview markdown files in macos finder
- view json files with quick look
- preview plain text files without extensions on mac
- find quick look plugins for developers
- preview archives and installer packages in finder
- enable video thumbnails in macos quick look

## When to choose
- you are a macOS developer wanting richer Finder file previews
- you want a curated, maintained list of Quick Look plugins with install instructions

## When to avoid
- you are on Windows or Linux
- you need a single tool rather than a directory of links to third-party plugins

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: active
- function: developer-tools, file-system, markdown, json, pdf, video-processing, image-processing
- domain: operating-systems, developer-tools, awesome-lists, files
- platform: -
- tags: quick-look, macos-plugins, file-preview, curated-list, homebrew, macos

## Member repositories
- sindresorhus/quick-look-plugins (main) score 75

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:27.092501+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:01:18.493977+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/sindresorhus/quick-look-plugins (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:27.092501+00:00, sha f529cd35b0ac)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.