QuickLook

QuickLook 4.5.0

Bring macOS “Quick Look” feature to Windows

  • By Paddy Xu
  • Open Source
  • Updated Apr 13, 2026
Download for Windows

About QuickLook

Bring macOS “Quick Look” feature to Windows

What's new in 4.5.0

What's Changed

  • Update LAVFilters to 0.81.0 #1362 #1855 #1863

> A possible side effect is that users with older GPUs or without the latest VC++ Redistributable
> installed may experience video playback failures.
>
> Nevertheless, QuickLook has chosen to continue with an up-to-date update strategy.
>
> If you encounter any issues, you can refer to #1362 and consider downgrading your LAVFilters
> version.

- Improve LRC handling by merging duplicate timestamps #1858
- Improve the translation of Simplified Chinese by @stxttkx
- Add support for the WindowBackdrop option (Auto/None/Mica/Acrylic/Tabbed/Acrylic10/Acrylic11)
- Add PKCS7 extensions to supported file types (.p7s and .pkcs7)
- Add support Fortran95 (.f90, .f95, .f03), GDScript (.gd), Diff (.patch, .rej), Razor (.cshtml,
.razor), ActionScript (.as, .mx), Assembly (.asm), Ada (.ada, .ads, .adb), AutoHotkey (.ahk), Rhai
(.rhai), C++ ( .cu, .cuh, .hip), Python (.pyx), PlantUML (.puml, .plantuml, .pu, .uml, .iuml,
.wsd), Zig (.zig), Moji (.moji), GraphQL (.graphql, .gql, .gqls), Mermaid (.mmd, .mermaid), KQL
(.kql), PromQL (.promql), JSON Lines (.jsonl), ANTLR, Boo, Ceylon, ChucK, Clojure, Cocoa,
CoffeeScript, Cool, and others syntax highlighting, including the dark mode theme
- Add support Chromium .pak viewer and file extraction
- Add .axml extension to XML syntax highlighting
- Add .cursorignore extension to GitIgnore syntax
- Add support for Python .whl and .egg archives
- Add support .psv parsing in CsvViewer
- Add Mermaid (.mermaid) support and .mmd detection #1893
- Add plugin icon registration and include QLPlugin.ico designed by @Shomnipotence
- Add DICOM image support to ImageViewer plugin #1866 This is not a long-lasting built-in plugin
- Add Romanian translation by @Laszlo19
- Add F11 full screen toggle support #253
- Fix markdown not supporting absolute resource paths
- Fix option <UseTransparency>False</UseTransparency> not taking effect in Windows 10 #1542
- Fix loop toggle resuming paused video playback #1852
- Fix unhandled Exception with XLSX and CSV files in OfficeViewer resize with
RPC_E_CANTCALLOUT_ININPUTSYNCCALL #1854
- Fix command line relative path resolution #1857
- Fix taskbar icon intermittently missing after Explorer restart #1864
- Fix {Desktop composition is disabled} exceptions in GetMonitorColorProfileFromWindow #4
- Fix assimp.dll not found for win-x64 #1741

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Technical details

PublisherPaddy Xu
Version4.5.0
Release date2026-04-13
LicenseGPL-3.0
Installer typewix
Architecturex86
Package IDQL-Win.QuickLook

Links & install command

Install QuickLook from the command line with Windows Package Manager (winget):

winget install --id=QL-Win.QuickLook -e

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Older versions

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