MonoLook - PSD & EPS Viewer
Preview PSD and EPS in Finder
Only for Mac
$9.99
Mac
macOS stopped previewing 1-bit Photoshop files and EPS years ago.
MonoLook brings them back — press the space bar and see your artwork.
Press the space bar. See your file.
macOS can no longer preview several formats that designers and print
professionals work with every day. Bitmap-mode Photoshop files show a
blank icon. EPS files show nothing at all. You end up opening Photoshop
or Illustrator just to find out what a file contains.
MonoLook restores those previews.
WHAT YOU GET
• Quick Look previews — press the space bar in Finder
• Finder thumbnails — see your artwork in icon and list views
• Preview in the Get Info window
• Pinch or ⌘+ to zoom in on fine detail
BUILT FOR THE FILES macOS GIVES UP ON
Bitmap-mode Photoshop files
1-bit artwork is decoded by MonoLook's own parser. A 21,000 × 28,000
pixel press-ready file opens in under a second.
EPS with embedded previews
MonoLook reads the preview data directly. It also handles palette-based
previews that macOS itself renders incorrectly — files that appear as
striped or truncated images elsewhere display correctly here.
Everything else
Grayscale, RGB, CMYK and indexed Photoshop files are passed through at
full quality, so installing MonoLook never makes anything worse.
When a file has no preview data to show, MonoLook tells you why instead
of leaving you with a blank icon.
PRIVACY
MonoLook works entirely on your Mac. No accounts, no network access,
no data collection.
ONE-TIME PURCHASE
Buy it once. No subscription.
SETUP
Open MonoLook once after installing, then turn on the MonoLook items
under System Settings → General → Login Items & Extensions → MonoLook.
The app walks you through it.
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MonoLook now previews EPS files that carry an Illustrator thumbnail
instead of a TIFF preview.
Across two production machines here, the share of our own EPS files
that MonoLook can display went from 40% to 99%. Most of the difference
is older artwork — files saved by Illustrator 8 through the current
version, where the only preview data in the file is a thumbnail
Illustrator writes into a comment block. MonoLook now reads it.
- EPS files saved without a TIFF preview now show their artwork in
Quick Look, in Finder thumbnails, and in the Get Info pane
- Where a file has both, the higher-resolution TIFF preview is still
used, so nothing that worked before looks worse
- Files with no preview data at all are still described rather than
rendered — MonoLook tells you why instead of showing a blank icon
Thank you to everyone who bought MonoLook in its first weeks.
The developer, CHIYODA NAME PLATE SEISAKUSHO, K.K., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- CHIYODA NAME PLATE SEISAKUSHO, K.K.
- Size
- 3.3 MB
- Category
- Graphics & Design
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 13.0 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 13.0 or later.
- Mac
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Chiyoda Nameplate Co., Ltd.
