Alternatives to QuickLook Video
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. QuickLook Video itself: install QuickLook Video.
Syntax Highlight
Quick Look extension for highlight source code files on macOS 12 and later
LosslessCut
The swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing
lizard-analyzer
A simple code complexity analyser without caring about the C/C++ header files or Java imports, supports most of the popular languages
ProvisionQL
Quick Look plugin for mobile apps and provisioning profiles
hcxtools
A small set of tools to convert packets from capture files to hash files for use with Hashcat or John the Ripper
video-compare
Split-screen video comparison tool using FFmpeg and SDL2
logrotate
The logrotate utility is designed to simplify the administration of log files on a system which generates a lot of log files
bartycrouch
Localization/I18n: Incrementally update/translate your Strings files from .swift, .h, .m(m), .storyboard or .xib files
hack-browser-data
Extract and decrypt browser data, supporting multiple data types, runnable on various operating systems (macOS, Windows, Linux)
dex2jar
Tools to work with android .dex and java .class files
FineTune
FineTune, a macOS menu bar app for per-app volume control, multi-device output, audio routing, and 10-band EQ. Free and open-source alternative to Sou
confd
Manage local application configuration files using templates and data from etcd or consul
miniserve
🌟 For when you really just want to serve some files over HTTP right now!
libvmaf
Perceptual video quality assessment based on multi-method fusion
bumblebee
Read-only developer endpoint scanner for on-disk package, extension, and developer-tool metadata, built to check exposure to known software supply-cha
ansible-lint
ansible-lint checks playbooks for practices and behavior that could potentially be improved and can fix some of the most common ones for you
Yattee
Privacy oriented video player for iOS, tvOS and macOS
xdg-ninja
A shell script which checks your $HOME for unwanted files and directories
tabiew
A lightweight TUI application to view and query tabular data files, such as CSV, TSV, and parquet
fdupes
FDUPES is a program for identifying or deleting duplicate files residing within specified directories
jclasslib bytecode viewer
jclasslib bytecode editor is a tool that visualizes all aspects of compiled Java class files and the contained bytecode
Asset Catalog Tinkerer
An app that lets you open .car files and browse/extract their images
slackdump
Save or export your private and public Slack messages, threads, files, and users locally without admin privileges
cargo-bloat
Find out what takes most of the space in your executable
How we picked these
We match on what the tool does and how it installs, then order by how widely each project is used. We're not saying these are better or worse than QuickLook Video — that depends on what you're building. We're saying they're the projects people reach for in the same situations, and each one has an install command we checked against its documentation.
QuickLook Video is developed by its own authors and this page is an independent reference; we are not affiliated with or sponsored by any project listed, and nothing here is a paid placement.