Looq turns Finder's Quick Look into a powerful preview tool. Select any file, press Space, and see it rendered beautifully right where you are. Even large files preview smoothly. MARKDOWN - GitHub Flavored Markdown with tables, task lists, and alerts - KaTeX math formulas and Mermaid diagrams - Table of contents with active heading highlight as you scroll - Syntax-highlighted code blocks with one-click copy - Live reload: save a file and the preview updates instantly - Emoji shortcodes and TextBundle support CODE - Syntax highlighting for 190+ programming languages - Auto language detection from extensions, shebang lines, and content - Auto-formatting for JSON, CSS, JavaScript, XML, and SQL - Line numbers, word wrap, and configurable tab width DATA - TSV displayed as sortable native tables - SQLite databases with table switching and column metadata - Diff/Patch files with color-coded additions and removals ARCHIVES & FOLDERS - Browse ZIP, TAR, GZ, BZ2 contents without extracting - Directory tree with sortable columns and file metadata THEMES & CUSTOMIZATION - Independent light and dark themes for both Markdown and code - Custom fonts, sizes, and weights - Scroll position memory across previews - Remote image caching for Markdown files - Configurable metadata bar with file size, dates, and type Built natively for macOS. No new app to manage. Just a better Quick Look, right in Finder.
| Size | 12.3 MB |
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| Initial release | |
| Price | $9.99 |
| Platforms | Mac |
| Languages | English, French, German, Japanese, and Korean |
| Category | Developer Tools |
| Website | parcse.com/looq |
| Compatibility | |
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| Mac | Requires macOS 14.0 or later. |
App's data is regularly updated.
Last update:
New - Added a menu bar to preview recent files and your Claude Code and Codex sessions - Added a collapsible table of contents to Markdown previews with an adjustable sidebar width - Added support for remembering preview window size, for all files or per file type - Added previews for binary property lists, .skill, .data, awk and sed files - Added SVG and SVGZ preview with zoom and pan - Added metadata previews for Android APK files - Added previews for more source code file types - Added per-type preview switches in System Settings - Added zoom for Mermaid diagrams - Added syntax highlighting for code blocks in .qmd and .rmd files - Rich preview for Org-mode (.org) files - New toggle for auto formatting (JSON, SQL, CSS, XML, plist) - Quickly toggle Markdown TOC from the right-click menu Improved - Improved app, installer and disk image previews with signing, notarization, and sandbox status - Improved Live Rendering to update previews in place while you edit - Improved Remember Scroll Position to reopen exactly where you left off - Improved handling of embedded HTML in Markdown previews - Faster rendering for code-heavy Markdown documents - Improved file tracking for Claude Code sessions - Improved the preview info bar to stay up to date while editing - Improved code folding and sticky scroll - Sharper Mermaid diagrams with rendering fixes - Improved performance with faster previews and lower memory use - Faster, more reliable previews for very large files - Improved sorting and paging performance on large SQLite databases - Smoother line number highlight in code previews - Improved the built-in diagnostics tool - Improved file previews on macOS Sequoia - Now compatible with macOS 27 - Minor UI refinements and stability improvements Fixed - Fixed crashes and hangs on very large or malformed files - Fixed a crash previewing apps and installers with a damaged signature - Fixed stale previews after editing a file in another app - Fixed unreadable text in Markdown code blocks marked as plain text - Fixed blank or clipped previews for diff and patch files - Fixed previews and Kind labels for scripts without a file extension - Fixed garbled text when previewing files in legacy encodings - Fixed empty files showing no preview - Fixed Markdown previews when other apps claim .md - Fixed Markdown front matter rendering - Fixed blank previews when restoring scroll position in long Markdown files - Fixed incorrect size display in folder and archive previews - Fixed previews for Common Lisp files (.lisp, .lsp, .asd) - Fixed Mermaid diagrams flickering when resizing the window - Fixed background CPU usage while idle