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By Kiss Tamás (2 listings) · VS Code Marketplace · Other

Shows image preview in the gutter and on hover

View on VS Code Marketplace Fresh · Oct 21, 2026

Image preview has 4,291,703 recorded installs on VS Code Marketplace, ranking #197 of 2,502 tracked listings.

Installs
4,291,703
Official API · Oct 21, 2026
7-day growth
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30-day growth
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90-day growth
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Rank
#197
Among tracked VS Code Marketplace listings

Rating: 4.83 / 5 from 60 ratings

About Image preview

Image Preview - Visual Studio Code Extension

Shows image preview in the gutter and on hover

It looks like this

Demonstrating svg image preview in a css file

Install

How to install Visual Studio Code extensions

Direct link to Visual Studio Code Marketplace

Change Log
  • 0.32.2
    • Update changelog
    • Support slash "/" in aliases
  • 0.32.1
    • Update changelog
    • Support protocol/scheme in aliases
  • 0.32.0
    • Update changelog
    • Support multiple source folders
    • Fix typo in decorator.ts
    • Avoid rendering performance issues with large images
    • Extract image data from URL encoded data URIs
    • Add jfif to the list of supported file formats
    • Add support for asciidoc's imagesdir attribute
  • 0.31.2
    • Update changelog
    • Attempt to fix server restarts
    • Change activation event to onStartupFinished
    • Defer creation of output channel
  • 0.31.1
    • Update changelog
    • Update dependencies
    • Migrate to tsup
  • 0.31.0
    • Update changelog
    • Add avif support (contribution by @rommelmamedov)
    • Add option to load images without extensions (contribution by @toFrankie)
      • See option "gutterpreview.urlDetectionPatterns" for details
  • 0.30.0
    • Update changelog
    • Update dependencies
    • Fix reference lookup based resolution
    • Resolve Data URIs within quoted strings as well
  • 0.29.0
    • Add new configuration property 'gutterpreview.imagePreviewMaxWidth'
      • By definining it to any value > 0, it will be used to set the width of the image. Note that the image might overflow the hover preview.
  • 0.28.1
    • Fixed extension initialization without a workspace
  • 0.28.0
    • Add file size to hover preview
    • Reorver lines in preview
    • Update changelog
    • Update dependencies
  • 0.27.1
    • Update changelog
  • 0.27.0
    • Update dependencies
    • Fix temp file related issues
  • 0.26.2
    • Update dependencies
  • 0.26.1
    • Update vscode engine version to 1.44.0
  • 0.26.0
    • Support for paths with spaces in markdown's image syntax (contribution by @episage)
  • 0.25.0
    • Add "Open Containing Folder" link to hover message
  • 0.24.0
    • Skip style injection for svg-s if currentColorForSVG is set to empty string
  • 0.23.0
    • Added webp to acceptedExtensions (contribution by @Afsar-Pasha)
  • 0.22.3
    • Fix handling of special characters in URIs
  • 0.22.2
    • Fix file URI handling
  • 0.22.1
    • Remove unnecessary files from the package
  • 0.22.0
    • Use webpack to bundle the extension
    • Update to vscode@1.37.0
    • Check CancellationToken while collecting resource references
  • 0.21.1
    • Disable reference resolution by default
  • 0.21.0
    • Show images defined in constant classes
  • 0.20.0
    • Add currentColor configuration support for SVGs
  • 0.19.5
    • Fix data uri handling (contribution by @rafaelkendy)
  • 0.19.4
    • Prepend file protocol to image url in the hover preview (bug fix for Remote - WSL)
  • 0.19.3
    • Add special case extracting urls from between braces for latex
  • 0.19.2
    • Downgrade vscode-languageclient and -server to 5.21
  • 0.19.1
    • Update dependencies
  • 0.19.0
    • Add ico to accepted extensions
  • 0.18.0
    • Add "Reveal in Side Bar" link to hover message
  • 0.17.5
    • Fix processing of js/tsconfig path section
  • 0.17.4
    • Ensure loadPathsFromTSConfig always returns at least an empty object
    • Update runtime dependencies
  • 0.17.3
    • Fix and adjust loading of path aliases from js/tsconfig
  • 0.17.2
    • Remove trailing wildcard from js/tsconfig path mappings
  • 0.17.1
    • Add typescript as runtime dependency
  • 0.17.0
    • Add support for path aliases defined by config property or by js/tsconfig
      • see path mapping in the typescript documentation for further details Please note that a restart is necessary after changing the js/tsconfig.json.
  • 0.16.5
    • Replace probe-image-size with image-size
  • 0.16.4
    • Update dependencies
  • 0.16.3
    • Avoid repeated decorations when word wrapping is enabled
  • 0.16.2
    • Handle error explicitly when requesting resources from the network
  • 0.16.1
    • Fix typo in readme
  • 0.16.0
    • Fix image size calculation
    • Fix image path handling under Windows
    • Require vscode version 1.28.0
    • Make use of ImageCache for faster image path verification
    • Implement partial scan and proper cancellation token handling
  • 0.15.3
    • Skip lines longer than 20k when searching for potential links
    • Fix runtime dependency issue (slash)
  • 0.15.2
    • Restore vscode.Uri based image handling for decorations
  • 0.15.1
    • Update dependencies
    • Add scope for configuration properties
  • 0.15.0
    • Change casing of configuration options (by Orhan Sönmez)
    • Add option (gutterpreview.showUnderline) to disable link like underline (by Orhan Sönmez)
    • Use more flexible pattern for data url detection
    • Fix path resolution for urls relative to the workspace folder
  • 0.14.2
    • Fix several windows compatiblity issues
  • 0.14.1
    • Add null checks around editor instances
  • 0.14.0
    • Remove onFileChange callback from ImageCache
    • Fix throttledScan implementation
    • Add recognizer for data Urls
    • Reformat package json
    • Add underline to recognized urls
    • Dispose unused decorations
    • Detect more than one url in a single…

Description from the VS Code Marketplace listing.

  • image
  • preview
  • vscode

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Adoption over time

Image preview installs on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 4,291,703 installs as of Oct 21, 2026.Image previewInstalls on VS Code Marketplace · Last 90 days4,291,703installs4.3M4.3M4.3M4.3M4.3M4.3MJul 23Aug 7Aug 22Sep 6Sep 21Oct 6Oct 21installsobservedarchived (Internet Archive)no observationsOct 16, 2026 – Oct 21, 2026 · 6 observations · Updated Oct…pluginstats.com
Image preview installs on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 4,291,703 installs as of Oct 21, 2026.

7/30/90-day growth

Image preview installs growth on VS Code Marketplace: 7-day growth unavailable, 30-day growth unavailable, 90-day growth unavailable.Image previewInstalls growth on VS Code Marketplace4,291,703installs now7-day growthinsufficient historyInsufficient history30-day growthinsufficient historyInsufficient history90-day growthinsufficient historyInsufficient historyGrowth vs. nearest observation to each baseline date · Updated Oct 21, 2026pluginstats.com
Image preview installs growth on VS Code Marketplace: 7-day growth unavailable, 30-day growth unavailable, 90-day growth unavailable.

Ranking history

Image preview VS Code Marketplace ranking history: currently #197 (by installs).Image previewVS Code Marketplace ranking · by installs · Last 90 days#197current rank#195#196#197#198#199Jul 23Aug 7Aug 22Sep 6Sep 21Oct 6Oct 21rankOct 16, 2026 – Oct 21, 2026 · 6 observations · Updated Oct 21, 2026pluginstats.com
Image preview VS Code Marketplace ranking history: currently #197 (by installs).

Ratings over time

Image preview ratings on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 60 ratings as of Oct 21, 2026.Image previewRatings on VS Code Marketplace · Last 90 days60ratings54565860626466Jul 23Aug 7Aug 22Sep 6Sep 21Oct 6Oct 21ratingsobservedarchived (Internet Archive)no observationsOct 16, 2026 – Oct 21, 2026 · 6 observations · Updated Oct…pluginstats.com
Image preview ratings on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 60 ratings as of Oct 21, 2026.

Listing placement

All VS Code Marketplace2,502 listings · 126 pages · 1,252 shown · page 10, #17 (overall #197)
All VS Code Marketplace: every listing in installs order

Listing placement

Other762 listings · 39 pages · page 3, #16 (overall #56)
Other: every listing in installs order

Filled points are observed values; hollow points come from Internet Archive snapshots of the listing page. Dashed segments span periods with no observations — values between points are not interpolated.

Each band is one page of 20. Installs on a linear scale. Placement is projected from installs, so it can differ from the marketplace's own sort order. Hover a dot to see the listing.

Recent observations

Full history (6)
Recent installs observations for Image preview
Date (UTC)InstallsChange vs. previous
4,291,703+872
4,290,831+1.3K
4,289,541+1.2K
4,288,342+353
4,287,989+613
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Data source

Install counts, average rating, and rating counts come from the public Visual Studio Marketplace gallery API. Installs are cumulative and exclude updates.

Listing: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=kisstkondoros.vscode-gutter-preview. First seen Oct 16, 2026; last successful collection Oct 21, 2026. See the methodology.