AssetCatalogTinkerer vs glance

AssetCatalogTinkerer

An app that lets you open .car files and browse/extract their images. (by insidegui)

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🔎 All-in-one Quick Look plugin (by samuelmeuli)

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AssetCatalogTinkerer		glance
	Project
5	Mentions	1
2,221	Stars	778
-	Growth	-
2.0	Activity	6.8
13 days ago	Latest Commit	almost 4 years ago
Swift	Language	Swift
BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License	License	MIT License

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AssetCatalogTinkerer

Posts with mentions or reviews of AssetCatalogTinkerer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

Are Sprite Atlases necessary?
1 project | /r/spritekit | 2 May 2023

Peeking at my build product's `assets.car` file using this app doesn't show any interesting changes... Xcode appears to be packing my images into textures whether or not I have a `.spriteatlas` in my assets bundle. The packed textures are smaller than I would expect (like 500x500 or less instead of 1024x1024)
SwiftBar menu bar icon
1 project | /r/macapps | 26 Aug 2022
Where do these system images live? (The round OS images shown in System Info)
1 project | /r/MacOS | 18 Jun 2022

I checked /System/Applications/Utilities/System\ Information.app/Contents/Resources/Assets.car on macOS 11.6 with AssetCatalogTinkerer but it doesn't contain the OS icon.
macOS Monterey System Icons Directory?
1 project | /r/MacOS | 15 Feb 2022
Fun Fact: Contacts has an alternate icon for right-to-left languages.
1 project | /r/MacOS | 11 Nov 2021

Here’s the GitHub link for the app. Or, if you have brew, you can just:

glance

Posts with mentions or reviews of glance. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-11.

How Can I Get "Quick Look" to Display Previews of Markdown (.md) Files?
2 projects | /r/MacOS | 11 Feb 2021

glance - quick look preview of md and a lot more. free, opensource and on the appstore

What are some alternatives?

When comparing AssetCatalogTinkerer and glance you can also consider the following projects:

DevToysMac - DevToys For mac

macos-auto-clicker - A simple auto clicker for macOS Big Sur, Monterey, Ventura and Sonoma.

SourceCodeSyntaxHighlight - Quick Look extension for highlight source code files on macOS 10.15 and later.

qlmarkdown - QuickLook generator for Markdown files.

SDWebImage - Asynchronous image downloader with cache support as a UIImageView category

CotEditor - Lightweight Plain-Text Editor for macOS

Mac-QuickLook - QuickLook plugins and packages

QLMarkdown - macOS Quick Look extension for Markdown files.

GLTFQuickLook - macOS QuickLook plugin for glTF files

Gifski - 🌈 Convert videos to high-quality GIFs on your Mac

deskfun-preview - QuickLook plugin to render icons and previews for Yoda Stories and Indiana Jones and his Desktop Adventures save games.

iOSLocalizationEditor - Simple macOS editor app to help you manage iOS and macOS app localizations by allowing you to edit all the translations side by side