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macOS Quick Look extender · CosmoLabs

Press Space.
See it instantly.

A native Quick Look extender that turns any file in Finder into a beautiful, readable preview — no app launch required.

Free & open source MIT licensed Sandboxed, fully offline

Showcase

Eight previews, built by hand.

Not a feature list — the actual windows. Every panel below is a real Quick Look preview, rebuilt in CSS exactly as the extension draws it on your Mac.

drag · scroll · arrow keys

Beyond the eight

The rest of your disk, previewed too.

Metadata
Parquet · Arrow/Feather · Avro · Stata .dta · dBASE .dbf · binary plist
3D models
glb · gltf · obj · stl
Notebooks
ipynb — cells, outputs, markdown
Books
EPUB — cover, spine, chapters
Maps
GeoJSON — geometry + properties
Archives
zip · tar · gz · 7z — contents, no extraction
Fonts
ttf · otf · woff · woff2
Audio & video
native decoding, transport, waveform

Before / after

Stock macOS gives you gray mush.

Same file, same spacebar. Drag the handle — or focus it and use the arrow keys.

highlight.goStock macOS
Plain text·no lexer·no metadata
highlight.goCosmoQuickView
Go·github theme·14 lines·UTF-8

Left: stock macOS Quick Look shows highlight.go as undifferentiated gray monospace text. Right: CosmoQuickView shows the same file with Go syntax highlighting, line numbers and file metadata.

Stock macOSOne gray colour. No tokens, no metadata, no rendering.

With CosmoQuickView440+ formats highlighted, themes applied, structure parsed.

Playground

Every file, handled.

Click or press-and-hold to pour file extensions — every format the app previews, made physical. Tilt your device and watch them avalanche.

Reduced-motion setting? They stack instantly, no physics.

440+syntax formatshighlighted on press
292Chroma lexersauto-discovered
30TextMate formatsastro, prisma, cairo, pug, haml
3shipped themesgithub, monokai, dracula
1,372mapped extensionspublic database
0network callssandboxed, offline

Install

Three steps. No app store.

Clone & install

Clone the repo and run make install. That's the whole setup.

Select any file

Open Finder. Click any file — source, notebook, parquet, font, whatever.

Press Space

The Quick Look panel opens with a beautiful, readable preview. Done.

git clone https://github.com/CosmoLabs-org/CosmoQuickView.git && cd CosmoQuickView && make install