FIND YOUR WAY AROUND
Preview PDF, Excel, PowerPoint and more
Agents produce more than code: reports, spreadsheets, decks, diagrams. GitLocal opens them in place, on your machine, where GitHub's web UI often offers only a download link.
What you get
- PDF. Rendered locally, and sharp on high-resolution (Retina) displays.
- SVG. Shown as an inert image, so a script inside an SVG can never run.
- CSV. A scrollable table, with a toggle between the raw text and the formatted view.
- Excel (
.xlsx,.xls). A tab for each sheet, showing the values Excel last saved. GitLocal never recalculates formulas. - PowerPoint (
.pptx). Slides scroll continuously with a “Slide N of M” indicator, and speaker notes appear inline. Text, backgrounds, images, and theme colors from the deck’s layouts and masters are rendered. - Images and Markdown open in the same viewer, so nothing changes as you move between file types.
Honest limits
All of these previews are read-only, and the PowerPoint and Excel viewers are best-effort rather than pixel-perfect. Charts inside Excel worksheets are not drawn yet, and logos saved as EMF or WMF images in a deck show as “not available”. If one of these gets in your way, the open help-wanted issues are the place to weigh in or pick one up.
Try it in one command
npx gitlocal
Needs Node.js 22+. Full install guide, including the macOS app →