See the full-size version of any picture the moment you hover its thumbnail — no clicks, no new tabs. Reliable where older hover-zoom tools quietly die, and it never phones home.
Free forever · No Pro tier · No account · No tracking
That one difference is why the classics break every few months and PeekPic doesn't.
The classic hover-zoom tools keep a hand-written rule for each site. The moment a site changes how it serves images, its rule breaks — and the tool silently stops working there until someone patches it. That's the "it stopped working on Twitter again" you've seen in every review.
breaks when sites changePeekPic derives the full-size address straight from the thumbnail — recognising how the big image hosts build their URLs, and falling back to smart heuristics everywhere else. No per-site rulebook to rot, so it keeps working on sites nobody ever wrote a rule for.
reliable by designThe full-size image appears beside your cursor the instant you hover, and vanishes the moment you move away. Images and video both.
Press P to lock the preview open, then wheel up to 8× and drag to pan — inspect the fine detail without leaving the page.
S sends the full-size image straight to Downloads — even where right-click saving is blocked. C copies it to the clipboard.
Step through every image on a page with the arrow keys — no mouse movement needed. Perfect for boards, albums and search results.
Send any preview to Google Lens, Bing, Yandex or TinEye. Opt-in and off by default — nothing leaves the page unless you turn it on and press the key.
No account, no analytics, no tracking, no server of ours. The only network traffic is loading the images you actually look at. Settings stay on your device.
Every feature — video, pin & zoom, save, gallery mode, reverse search — is free permanently. There's no subscription, no license, and nothing waiting behind a paywall. PeekPic runs entirely on your device, so there's almost nothing for us to pay for. If it makes your browsing nicer, you can buy the developer a coffee. That's the whole model.
PeekPic is one of a family of independent Chrome extensions built in the UK. No bloat, no dark patterns.
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Most hover-zoom extensions keep a hand-written rule for each website, so when a site changes how it serves images, its rule breaks and the tool quietly stops working there. PeekPic doesn't use a per-site rulebook — it works out the full-size image address from the thumbnail itself, recognising how the major image hosts build their URLs and using smart heuristics everywhere else. That's why it keeps working on sites nobody wrote a rule for.
No. There's no account, no analytics, no tracking, and no PeekPic server — there's nowhere for your data to go. The only network activity is loading the images you hover, from the same image hosts the page already uses. The one thing that ever leaves the page is reverse image search, which is off by default and only fires when you turn it on and press the key.
Hover the image so the preview appears, then press S — the full-size version goes straight to your Downloads folder, even on sites that block right-click saving. Press C to copy it to the clipboard instead. You can remap both keys in settings.
PeekPic saves one image at a time, on purpose — it's a focused hover-and-save tool. If you need to grab every image on a page in one go, that's exactly what Snipdrop is built for, with a bulk image downloader alongside its snipping tools.
Yes — every feature, free permanently, with no Pro tier, no subscription and no license system, and there never will be. There's no account and nothing to unlock. If PeekPic makes your browsing nicer, you can leave an optional tip at ko-fi.com/niallcodes. That's the entire model.
Across the web — social feeds, image boards, shops, galleries and ordinary sites alike. Because it reads the image rather than following a per-site rulebook, it works in places other hover tools never covered. If a particular site ever misbehaves, you can turn PeekPic off there in one click.