Quick Look extension

hypershot ships a Quick Look thumbnail extension so Finder can show previews of your .hypercapture captures — in icon and column views, and when you select one and press Space — without opening anything. (Exported images like PNG and JPEG are previewed by macOS itself.)

Enabling it

macOS does not prompt for this permission, and apps can’t request it — it’s a manual toggle:

1. Open System Settings → General → Login Items & Extensions → Quick Look (on macOS 14: System Settings → Privacy & Security → Extensions → Quick Look). On macOS, Show Permissions Setup in the menu bar menu has a Quick Look step with a button that opens this page
2. Find hypershot in the list and make sure it’s turned on

If hypershot isn’t in the list at all, launch hypershot once, then reopen System Settings — extensions register on first run.

If you denied it earlier

Denied here doesn’t mean a dialog was clicked away — it means the extension’s checkbox is off (or was off when you looked). Re-enable it exactly as above.

A reboot may be required. macOS occasionally caches extension state, and some users report the toggle not taking effect until after a restart. If Finder still won’t preview hypershot files after enabling, reboot once before assuming it’s broken.

Verifying

Select any .hypercapture file in Finder and press Space. A preview should appear. If you get the generic file icon instead, re-check the toggle (and the reboot note above).

Windows

No equivalent setup — hypershot installs a File Explorer thumbnail handler for .hypercapture files along with the app, so thumbnails just work. See Hypercapture Files.