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CLUSTER FILE-IMAGES-DOCUMENTS · 9 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2024-03-12

Local file preview tools

This cluster comprises desktop and web tools that let users preview a wide range of file formats—archives, media, documents, and e-books—without launching separate applications. Dated entries before the index start span from May 2022 to July 2026, with a sparse distribution and a small concentration of three entries in March–April 2024. In terms of traction, Archive-Peek leads with 2 stars, while other members show no activity signal.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

MAY 2022: 1NOV 2023: 1MAR 2024: 1APR 2024: 1MAY 2024: 1JUL 2026: 1SEP 2026: 1OCT 2026: 2
MAY 2022OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 ai-built · 1 hand-coded · 7 unlabelled

Operator · 2 hobby · 2 indie · 5 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 9 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01ExplorerVideoPreview6★15 daysliveindieWindows utility that displays a scrubbable preview when hovering over video files in File Explorer, on local or network drives.
  2. 02HTML-Gallery-Viewer0★22 daysliveindieDesktop application that displays multiple local HTML files in a gallery so developers can preview and compare pages at once.
  3. 03zipeek0★15 days—hobbyAndroid app that previews and plays images, videos, audio, and text directly inside compressed archives without extracting them.
  4. 04aio-viewer0★3 moliveai-builthobbyWeb app that opens and previews many file formats locally in the browser, with tabbed viewing and in-file search.
  5. 05lfp0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceWrapper for a file manager that adds media previews and remembers the last directory.
  6. 06previewqt0★1 moliveopen sourceDesktop utility for previewing a wide range of file types including images, videos, documents, and archives without launching separate applications.
  7. 07PreviewQt0★1 moliveopen sourceLightweight file previewer that displays images, audio, video, PDFs, archives, e-books, and text quickly from the system tray.
  8. 08Index0★1 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceFile manager that allows navigation and preview of multimedia files on the desktop.
  9. 09Kiview0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceFile manager utility that shows quick previews of documents, images, and videos without opening a separate application.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.