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rust-hover-preview

Rust Hover Preview is a Windows 11 tray app inspired by QTTabBar and QuickLook. Hover over a file in File Explorer for an instant preview, or press Space to open a pinned preview window.

Completely free
Open source
No account

Overview

rust-hover-preview is a file manager.

Features described in its GitHub repository: hardware acceleration.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information

“Hover over a file in File Explorer for an instant preview, or press Space to open a pinned preview window.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
“For video, mpv is recommended for performance, hardware acceleration, reliability, and subtitles (embedded tracks and sidecar .srt) that just work.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of rust-hover-preview is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (MIT) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

Open source code
No account needed
Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

Facts collected from GitHub (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use) — 10 November 2026
Last technical check: 7 November 2026
Description from github.com — Dépôt GitHub cosmokud/rust-hover-preview (MIT)

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