Top 9 Media Preview Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

1. FirmTools ShellExtension

FirmTools ShellExtension is a real handy freebie for Windows users.Install this tool and it will add three new options to your menu when you right click on a picture file: convert, print, and thumbnail preview. Converting supports most of the formats you will ever need: JPEG, TIFF, PSD, PNG, GIF,...... TpSort Score | 378,000

2. FastPreview

FastPreview was created in need of a usable PicaView replacement which was discontinued at the time.It is now a pretty handy tool to display images in a fast manner and is an alternative to the functionality Windows has built-in.Features:Fast Viewer - Showing the image incl. different scaling types...... TpSort Score | 185,000,000

3. Icaros

Icaros is a collection of lightweight, high quality, Windows Shell Extensions, which is capable of providing Windows Explorer thumbnails for essentially any video media filetype. Icaros can provide Windows Explorer thumbnails, for essentially any video media format supported by FFmpeg which includes popular filetypes such as: Mkv, Flv, Avi, Mp4,...... TpSort Score | 964,000

4. CBX Shell

CBX Shell provides Windows Explorer thumbnail and infotip extensions for image archives. It enables thumbnail preview for ZIP, CBZ, CBR and RAR image archives. Windows Explorer will display a thumbnail image of the first photo in the archive instead of the generic archive icon....... TpSort Score | 19,300,000

5. MysticThumbs

MysticThumbs generates thumbnails of many image types not natively supported by Windows. It does this transparently and in the background for Explorer so you don't have to run a separate application to preview your images. It is a native Windows Explorer plugin which means you don't have to do anything...... TpSort Score | 28,300,000

6. Instant ThumbView

Instant ThumbView is a tiny image viewer that displays image thumbnails in a tooltip window, when mouse pointer is hovered over an image file in Windows Explorer. It supports a lot of popular image file formats, including BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, WMF, EMF, TIFF and is very handy for quick...... TpSort Score | 23,900,000

7. SageThumbs

SageThumbs is a powerful shell extension allowing to preview enormous amount of image formats directly in Windows Explorer by using Pierre-e Gougelet's GFL library (XnView's author).Features Extended thumbnail image view of Explorer folder Thumbnail image in explorer context menu (right-click menu) Extended info tips Support 162 image formats (224 extensions)...... TpSort Score | 28,200,000

8. ThumbView

ThumbView enables image thumbnails and tooltips in Microsoft Windows XP Explorer (does not work on Windows 7) for filetypes that are not natively supported. It started with PCX, TGA, DDS and PNG images, but now ThumbView supports an amazing 19 image types - directly inside any Explorer window: Image types...... TpSort Score | 28,300,000

9. SVG Explorer Extension

Extension module for Windows Explorer to render SVG thumbnails, so that you can have an overview of your SVG files....... TpSort Score | 9,810,000