QLMarkdown vs Mac-QuickLook

QLMarkdown

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

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Mac-QuickLook

QuickLook plugins and packages (by haokaiyang)

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QLMarkdown		Mac-QuickLook
	Project
2	Mentions	3
1,123	Stars	1,025
-	Growth	-
5.2	Activity	0.0
11 months ago	Latest Commit	over 2 years ago
C++	Language	CSS
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal

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.

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

Mac-QuickLook

Posts with mentions or reviews of Mac-QuickLook. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-10.

FINDER issue with generating video thumbnails (portrait instead of landscape)
2 projects | /r/osx | 10 Apr 2023

Here’s a link to other extensions that adds support to other file types in quick look, https://github.com/haokaiyang/Mac-QuickLook
Preview App on macOS Ventura Drops Support for PostScript Files
2 projects | /r/apple | 26 Oct 2022
EPS not previewing in Finder since Monterey (extra context in comments)
1 project | /r/MacOS | 20 Feb 2022

Try to look for new replacement. Here is a list of available QuickLook plugins: https://github.com/haokaiyang/Mac-QuickLook

What are some alternatives?

When comparing QLMarkdown and Mac-QuickLook you can also consider the following projects:

glance - 🔎 All-in-one Quick Look plugin

MacOS-CSS - Next version of macos-web. made with CSS, HTML and Javascript

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

QLVideo - This package allows macOS Finder to display thumbnails, static QuickLook previews, cover art and metadata for most types of video files.

QLColorCode - QuickLook plugin for source code with syntax highlighting.

AssetCatalogTinkerer - An app that lets you open .car files and browse/extract their images.

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

WebPQuickLook - Mac OS X QuickLook plugin for WebP image files

awesome-macos-command-line - Use your macOS terminal shell to do awesome things.

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.