Peek — A Quick Look Extension

Peek — A Quick Look Extension

By Big Z Labs LLC

  • Category: Developer Tools
  • Release Date: 2021-04-01
  • Current Version: 2.6.4
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 9.51 MB
  • Developer: Big Z Labs LLC
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 10.15 or later.
$7.99 On itunes

Description

Accelerate your workflow with the Quick Look conveniences that only Peek can deliver: searching, jumping, scroll restoring, syntax highlighting, & more. -- Due to system limitations, Peek is ~NOT~ able to support the following documents, not limited to: plain text (.txt, .text), rich text (.rtf, .rtfd), HTML/XML/web archives (.html, .xml*, .webarchive), TypeScript (.ts), Adobe suite (.pdf), Microsoft Office (.csv, .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx), OpenDocument suite (.odt, .ods, .odp), nor any Apple iWork documents (.pages, .numbers, .key). -- • Rich previews of Markdown, TextBundle, PostScript, & .ePDF documents. • Jump to lines/pages & search documents from Quick Look previews in Finder & other friendly applications. • Brings popular system keyboard shortcuts to Peek-supplied Quick Look previews: search, jump to line, scroll to end/beginning of a document. • Supports Github-style Markdown with an optionally generated table of contents: • Autoload any of 191 HighlightJS languages or 273 PrismJS languages. • Lazy syntax highlighting, MathJax typesetting, and Mermaid.js diagramming. • Use absolute and relative local filesystem links. • MathJax with Tex input (full inline support utilizing a bespoke cmark extension). • Use a Quick Action to quickly rename a PDF document to an .ePDF document to search or copy text, more easily navigate pages, & preview using Dark mode themes. • Force click on terms to launch the Look Up functionality. • Preview sizes from 5KB to 1MB (excluding PDFs & property list files). • Save and restore scroll positions—continue from where you last left off. • Syntax highlighting with automatic language detection for the most popular programming languages. • Customize your preview experience with over 70 different light & dark themes, or customize your style in a CSS stylesheet. • Optionally include line numbers in source code previews. • Peek attempts to support previews for the most common file types, including those not currently supported by the system: • Cartfile, Podfile, .gitignore, .swiftlint.yml, .xcconfig, .swift, .c, .py, and many more. • Visit Peek's website for the most up-to-date list of compatible files.

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Reviews

  • Invaluable, yet a bit buggy.

    3
    By Q ✨
    I couldn’t live without it; however, I wish it were still under development because it has a few bugs: - Markdown text is not rendered the same as other renderers. - Selecting and copying text doesn’t work when invoked via Launchbar (it does work in Finder).

  • Broken

    1
    By Yaroslav Ya
    I've purchased this unfurtunately, and now I'm unable to get refund, don't be as naive as me. The app isn't support a dark theme for PDFs, at least on a last macOS release, the code highlight are clunchy when it comes to files more than a few lines.

  • Was told I could view postscript files

    5
    By ballzach749
    Every time I open a .ps or .eps extension, I simply get a window that state "Peek Diagnostics - The Uniform Type Identifier (UTI) is: com.adobe.encapsulated-postscript" No crap. I tried their troubleshooting they have, but nothing. It's so frustring that apple dropped postscript support in Ventura. I regret updating my MacOS. Was hoping I could view these files with Peek, oh well. Recieved a developer response showing I was using the app incorrectly. Thank you.

  • Great Tool!

    5
    By redwingsfan14
    Great app, just needed it for XML at the time I purchased it, but this is really coming in handy!

  • A little overpriced, but easier than open-source

    4
    By ShieldsPC
    Syntax highlighting for quick look is a must-have, but I don't feel good paying $8 USD for it. There are open-source options that are free.

  • Credit where it's due...

    5
    By Zen@Work
    TO THE DEVELOPER: Speaking as A. a full-time professional software engineer, B. one who used to work for Apple, and C. one who's written QuickLook extensions in the past personally... even I gotta admit: this is pretty pimp, gentlemen. There's an almost surprising level of attention to detail in surprising places. I don't simply mean syntax highlighting on umpteen languages (I can install Prism or a port of it too). I mean this little stuff, like the table of contents in Markdown files, the respecting of darkmode, retention of scroll position in longer documents, or - and I LOVE this - the tabulation of YAML files. Anf you're not so pretentious as to decide I need a permanent fixture in my menu bar just for the once-a-year access I need to your preferences window. Even the background processes clean up after themselves (primary app AND helper!)! I wish ADOBE would take a lesson from y'all. Albeit: I've not tried it on every file type yet, but if the quality level so far holds, I'm EXTREMELY optimistic. Finally, consider, at least, accepting submissions for additional file types? I'm pretty I could get you over the hump on .docx/.xlsx... they're not that hard to parse. I assume you have this thing moduleized... wouldn't even need repo access if you posted your specs for the module. Or maybe consider an extensible API? Regardless, totally worth the 8 bucks. There's EASILY $8 worth of love poured into this. Well done, guys!

  • I love this!

    5
    By CraigInGolden
    I use a lot of markdown and this makes finding files a snap. I am super pleased that it is able to render MathJax within markdown. This was a pleasant suprise. This thing just works and is rock solid. Great job developers!

  • Please add the V language (aka vlang)

    3
    By ylluminate
    Would like to have V (V programming language; aka Vlang - see vlang.io) to Peek. If I can help, please let me know how.

  • Massively improves QuickLook!

    5
    By joeharris76
    Thanks for creating this app. It would be great if we could choose "dark" themes for light mode system UI.

  • Copy Paste from QuickLook again!

    5
    By Aviris
    Like others, I was so desparate for this functionality (since its removal in Sierra) that I purchased this app just for that. Then I discovered it worked by granting permissions to a helper utility to monitor inputs. No way. I deleted the entire app. Not sure how I discovered they'd come up with a different method, but I sure am glad. As a bonus, I use Markdown a lot and for some reason one of my Macs wouldn't render it in Quicklook (despite having the same markdown quicklook plugin as all my other machines). Intalling this fixed that. Not completely stylable, but still better than plain text.

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