Looq Free Download Latest Version for macOS. It is a full offline installer and standalone setup for macOS.
Looq Overview
Looq is a modern macOS Quick Look extension designed to make Finder’s Space-bar preview feature more useful for developers, technical writers, system administrators, and other users who regularly work with code, Markdown, structured data, and technical files. Instead of opening another application just to inspect a file, Looq can render many supported formats directly inside Quick Look.
The application supports Markdown with GitHub Flavored Markdown, GitHub Alerts, KaTeX mathematics, Mermaid diagrams, local images, emoji shortcodes, highlights, and automatic tables of contents. It can also provide syntax highlighting for more than 190 programming languages and automatically format certain minified JSON, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, XML, and plist files.
Looq goes beyond ordinary text previews by supporting CSV and SQLite databases, diff/patch files, archives, folders, and application or installer metadata. Its live-rendering capability can update a Markdown or Mermaid preview automatically after the source file is saved. The application is designed to process files locally on the Mac.
Features
- Quick Look Integration — Preview supported files directly through macOS Quick Look by pressing the Space bar.
- Markdown Rendering — Render Markdown files with support for modern Markdown syntax and formatting.
- GitHub Flavored Markdown — Supports GFM features used in many development and documentation workflows.
- Mermaid Diagrams — Render Mermaid diagrams directly inside Markdown previews.
- KaTeX Mathematics — Display mathematical expressions and formulas in supported Markdown files.
- 190+ Programming Languages — Provides syntax highlighting for a large range of programming languages.
- JSON & Code Formatting — Automatically formats supported minified JSON, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, XML, and plist files.
- CSV Preview — Display CSV files as structured, sortable tables instead of opening them in a spreadsheet application.
- SQLite Browser — Inspect SQLite databases with table information, pagination, column types, and sortable data.
- Diff & Patch Viewer — Display code differences with color-coded lines and dual line numbers.
- Archive Preview — Browse supported ZIP, TAR, GZ, and BZ2 archives without first extracting them.
- Folder Preview — Preview directory structures and browse folder contents through Quick Look.
- Package Metadata Inspection — Inspect supported application and package files, including signing, entitlements, and notarization information.
- Live Markdown Rendering — Keep a Quick Look preview open while editing a Markdown file and automatically refresh the preview after saving.
- Local Processing & Privacy — Designed to perform its file-rendering functionality locally without analytics or telemetry according to the developer’s description.
System Requirements
- Processor: Compatible Mac processor.
- RAM: No specific minimum RAM requirement is officially published.
- Storage: Requires a small amount of free disk space for the application and its Quick Look extension.
- Display/Resolution: No specific minimum display resolution is published.
- Apple Silicon Support: Yes, on supported macOS versions.
- Intel Mac Support: Compatibility should be checked against the particular release; the current macOS requirement is the more important compatibility consideration.
- Internet Connection: Not required for normal local file previews.
- Additional Requirements: Looq works through the macOS Quick Look framework and may require enabling its Quick Look extension in macOS. Some file previews can depend on the capabilities and permissions available to the operating system.
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