glance vs QLMarkdown

glance

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

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QLMarkdown

macOS Quick Look extension for Markdown files. (by sbarex)

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glance		QLMarkdown
	Project
1	Mentions	2
778	Stars	1,131
-	Growth	-
6.8	Activity	5.2
almost 4 years ago	Latest Commit	11 months ago
Swift	Language	C++
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

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

QLMarkdown

Posts with mentions or reviews of QLMarkdown. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-21.

Is there a similar app as 7-Zip for Windows but for Mac?
4 projects | /r/macapps | 21 Sep 2022

If you like QL that much, then you might also be interested in sbarex's SourceCodeSyntaxHighlight and Markdown plugins.
Any suggestion for a markdown viewer (not editor)?
1 project | /r/MacOS | 2 Mar 2022

What are some alternatives?

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

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

Mac-QuickLook - QuickLook plugins and packages

qlmarkdown - QuickLook generator for Markdown files.

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

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

QLColorCode - QuickLook plugin for source code with syntax highlighting.

CotEditor - Lightweight Plain-Text Editor for macOS

quick-look-plugins - List of useful Quick Look plugins for developers

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

WebPQuickLook - Mac OS X QuickLook plugin for WebP image files

Plash - 💦 Make any website your Mac desktop wallpaper

qlImageSize - QuickLook and Spotlight plugins to display the dimensions, size and DPI of an image in the title bar instead of the filename. Also preview some unsupported formats like WebP & bpg.