Tauri Plugin Quicklook

This plugin provides APIs to display and manage the macOS QuickLookUI Preview Pane.

Screen.Recording.2026-08-25.at.12.42.44.AM_converted.mp4

tauri-plugin-quicklook being used in production to power Cosmil, a macOS file manager built with Tauri.

---

Platform	Supported
Linux	x
Windows	x
macOS	✓
Android	x
iOS	x

Under the hood this crate makes use of the quicklook crate, which provides a general purpose easy-to-use Rust wrapper of QuickLookUI. If you need to access QuickLookUI APIs within a non-Tauri Rust application, you should probably use quicklook.

Install

You must install the core plugin by adding the following to your Cargo.toml file:

src-tauri/Cargo.toml

[dependencies]
tauri-plugin-quicklook = "0.1.0"

You also can (and probably want to) install the JavaScript guest bindings using your preferred JavaScript package manager:

pnpm add tauri-plugin-quicklook
# or
npm add tauri-plugin-quicklook
# or
yarn add tauri-plugin-quicklook

Usage

First you need to register the core plugin with Tauri:

src-tauri/src/lib.rs

fn main() {
    tauri::Builder::default()
        .plugin(tauri_plugin_quicklook::init())
        .run(tauri::generate_context!())
        .expect("error while running tauri application");
}

Afterwards all the plugin's APIs are available through the JavaScript guest bindings.

import { domRectToWindowSourceFrame, setPreviewItems } from "tauri-plugin-quicklook";

// This function could be called when a user clicks a button or presses the spacebar
// 
// This is naive, read below this code and see `setAndTrackPreviewElements`
async function displayPreviewPane() {
    const imgFilePath = "/path/to/example-image/image.png";
    const imgElement = document.getElementById("example-image");
    
    await setPreviewItems([
        {
            url: `file://${imgFilePath}`,
            srcFrame: await domRectToWindowSourceFrame(
                getCurrentWindow(),
                imgElement.getBoundingClientRect()
            )
        }
    ])
}

Note: This is a naive implementation that assumes the user won't scroll, resize the window, and that the preview items won't change while the preview pane is open. For a robust example covering edge cases like the aforementioned, check out examples/tauri-app.