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fman

Press Ctrl+P to quickly jump to a directory. fman remembers which folders you visit most often and suggests them first. This is so much quicker than manually navigating through directory hierarchies. Tailor fman to your needs via its powerful plugin system. Install plugins created by others, or write your own and share them with the community. fman is an alternative to file managers such as Explorer on Windows or Finder on macOS. You use it to browse directories, copy or move files, mount external drives, etc. It lets you perform these tasks much more efficiently than other file managers. This makes it extremely easy to copy or move files. You just open the directory you want to copy from on one side and the destination on the other. A simple keyboard shortcut then performs the copy. Unlike other file managers, you don't have to deal with multiple windows, drag files, or copy/paste in separate steps. File-related tasks can be carried out much more quickly that way.

Starting Price: €39 one-time payment

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Explorer++

Explorer++ is a lightweight and fast file manager for Windows. Explorer++ is a small and fast file manager for Windows. With tabs, bookmarks, and advanced file operations, it allows you to be much more productive! Currently, the method Explorer++ uses to monitor directories for changes only works in real filesystem folders. That means that if you create a file in a library, for example, Explorer++ won’t pick up the change. A unified system to persist data in a single format would have clear advantages. Explorer++ would still need to be able to load data from the registry/XML config file (at least initially), but the general process of loading and saving data would be a lot simpler. In Explorer++, column results are retrieved in a background thread. That stops the application from hanging while data is being retrieved. With the option to save to the registry or a configuration file, Explorer++ is completely portable.

Starting Price: Free

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TagSpaces

TagSpaces UG

TagSpaces is privacy aware, cross-platform file browser with note-taking capabilities. It helps you organize your files and folders with tags and colors. Free downloads are available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android. With the built-in advanced markdown editor, you can create notes that can include tables, todo-lists, math formulas, or diagrams. TagSpaces can connect to any folder on your hard drive and provide a convenient way to browse its content. You have the ability to add labels called tags to any file or folder. Using tags along the folder hierarchy allows you to have cross-references in the folders. The built-in search allows you to find files with any combination of tags. On top of that in the Pro version, you can add descriptions and geo-tags to files and folders. The Pro version gives you the ability to turn every folder to a Kanban board, which can be useful in many ways. With the TagSpaces Web Clipper, you can collect web pages and bookmarks from the Web.

Starting Price: $39 per year

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One Commander

Milos Paripovic

One Commander V3 is a modern file manager for Windows 10 and Windows 11. Features include tabs, dual-pane browsers, column navigation, built-in preview, a theming system, color tags, and much more. It is free for home use and has no ads. One Commander requires Windows 10 or Windows 11 and .NET 4.8 framework (pre-installed on Windows 10 and 11) Windows 10S is NOT supported. High-DPI screen recommended (above 96ppi). Acrylic window effect is supported only in Windows 10, but Mica window effect is available in Windows 11 (may not work in some Insider builds) Commercial use requires a Pro license (includes additional features). This program doesn't attempt to be just a better-looking Windows File Explorer with tabs or a MacOS Finder for Windows with columns, but to challenge the existing workflows that remained unchanged since the '90s.

Starting Price: $12 one-time payment

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FileVoyager

FileVoyager is a freeware Orthodox file manager (OFM) for Microsoft Windows. OFMs are file managers using two panels of disk browsers. This dual pane layout makes very easy the transfer operations of files or folders between sources and destinations. FileVoyager contains a large collection of tools and functionality. Browse disks, folders (real or virtual), shares, archives, and FTP/FTPS in one unified way. Browsing in various display modes (like a report or thumbnail modes) Usual file operations (rename, copy, move, link, delete, recycle) in the containers listed above and even between them. Pack and unpack ZIP, 7Zip, GZip, BZip2, XZ, Tar, and WIM formats (FileVoyager wraps 7-zip) Unpack ARJ, CAB, XAR, Z, RAR, LZH, LZMA, ISO, WIM and many others (FileVoyager wraps 7-zip) Play virtually any audio or video formats (FileVoyager relies at once on installed codecs, on WMP, and on VLC) Compare files or folders. Synchronize folders.

Starting Price: Free

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SpeedCommander

Dual Window file manager for Windows 7, 8, 10 & 11 (32/64-bit). Plenty of customization options. Viewer for over 80 file formats. Support for 13 archive formats. Access to FTP, FTP-SSL, and SFTP. Support for macros and add-ins. Pro, direct cloud storage access. Pro, burn, and ISO file support. The Pro version of SpeedCommander can access to cloud storage services and write data to CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray media. Always view both source and target of an operation. Select designs based on Office and Visual Studio. Display multiple folders in one folder window. Automatically switch to a different view mode. Built-in preview for over 80 file formats. Create junctions, hard links, and symbolic links. Save and restore your current work environment. Plug into the explorer context menu and AutoPlay dialog. Direct access to frequently-used folders and applications. Create and extract 13 archive formats. AddIn interface for additional features.

Starting Price: €22.95 one-time payment

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Unreal Commander

Max Diesel

Unreal Commander is a freeware file manager for Windows® Vista/7/8/10/11. Two-panel interface. UNICODE support, an extended search of files. Multi-rename tool and synchronization of directories. Support of archives ZIP, 7Z, RAR, CAB, WIM, TAR, GZ, TGZ, BZ2, TBZ2, LHA, and ARJ. Built-in FTP client, thumbnail mode, and folder tabs. Support of WLX/WCX/WDX plugins. Build-in viewer and quick view function. Network support and drag-and-drop support. History and Hotlist functions. Copy/move/delete files background mode support. Deleting files with WIPE. Background pictures support. Visual styles: color categories of files, fonts for all interface elements, and more. With Unreal Commander"s many features you can manage your files and folders with greater ease. Its familiar design makes it accessible to advanced and novice users alike. Automatic numbering mode has been added to the file renaming dialog displayed when copying.

Starting Price: Free

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Multi Commander

Multi Commander is a multi-tabbed file manager and is an alternative to the standard Windows Explorer. It uses a very popular and efficient dual-panel layout. Multi Commander has everything you need in your daily work with files to increase your speed and efficiency. It has all the standard features that any file manager has, like copy, move, rename, and view. But Multi Commander's big strengths are the special features that allow you to accomplish advanced tasks with ease. Tasks such as auto-unpacking, auto-sorting, browsing inside archives; editing the Windows Registry and accessing FTP; searching for and viewing files and pictures. There is also powerful, built-in scripting support that allows you to automate many tasks and expand their functionality. It allows you to do everything from the keyboard using shortcuts so that you can work quickly and efficiently. Dual pane tabbed interface, works with multiple folders open.

Starting Price: Free

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Files&Folders

Finebits

Files&Folders is a fully functional file manager for Windows 10. Manage your files and folders, extract archives, watch movies, view pictures and listen to music. File and folder options (copying, moving, renaming, deleting). Opening and extracting files from archives (RAR, ZIP, 7z, ZipX, ISO, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ARJ, XZ, CAB...) Built-in viewer and media player (doc, Docx, rtf, jpeg, png, BMP, gif, tiff, mp3, WMA, m4a, aac, wav, ac3, Avi, 3gp, WMV, mp4, m4v, mov). Audio playback in the background. Search for files and folders. Snapped mode support. SkyDrive access and Dropbox access. Operating with the system clipboard (copying to Windows Explorer) Themes and backgrounds, Bing wallpaper, etc. Founded by industry experts in 2013, Finebits OÜ provides a range of enterprise-class tools for the Windows Store.

Starting Price: $9 one-time payment

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Konvertor

Logipole

Konvertor is a fast and reliable two-panel, multi-tab file manager for Windows. It has an intuitive interface and offers viewers for all popular file formats as well as uncommon and very rare ones (4734 in the current version). Konvertor is a way to work with files more efficiently. Konvertor does not change any settings in Windows and does not hook itself into anything inside Windows. Konvertor 5.04 works seamlessly with both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 10, 8.1, 8, and 7. Konvertor is designed to be as fast as possible: quick navigation among directories, fast directory reading, and fast and smooth painting of panels and thumbnails. Konvertor is portable, it is configured to store all configurations and settings in the same folder that it is run from. Built-in viewers will instantly display the content of all file formats. Text and binary files, bitmap and vector images, videos, audio, and 3D files, Office documents or programs files.

Starting Price: Free

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WizTree

Find the files and folders using the most space on your hard drive quickly! WizTree makes it very easy to locate and remove "Space hogs" from your hard drive. The visual treemap displays the sizes of all of your files visually, helping you to quickly locate large files and folders. Don't waste time waiting for the disk scan results. WizTree does in seconds what similar applications take minutes to do. WizTree is in active development and new features are added regularly. If you have any suggestions for new features please contact us. When scanning NTFS formatted drives, WizTree reads the hard drive's Master File Table (MFT) directly from the disk (like Everything Search does). It can also quickly scan non-NTFS and network drives. Unlike similar applications, WizTree correctly handles hard-linked files (doesn't count them more than once). The total allocated space reported by WizTree will actually match what Windows reports.

Starting Price: $20 one-time payment

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SpaceSniffer

Uderzo Software

SpaceSniffer is a freeware (donations are welcome) and portable tool application that lets you understand how folders and files are structured on your disks. By using a Treemap visualization layout, you have an immediate perception of where big folders and files are placed on your devices. The Treemap concept was invented by Prof. Ben Shneiderman, who kindly permitted the use of his concept in this tool. Start a scan process and see the overall situation. The bigger the elements on the view, the bigger are folders and files on your disk. Do you need more detail on a big folder? Just single click on it. The selected element will be detailed with its content. If you need to understand why no more free space is left on media, keep following bigger elements. Maybe you want to focus only on particular file types. Just type the file type on the filter field and press enter. The view will react and show you only JPEG files.

Starting Price: Free

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JDiskReport

JGoodies

JDiskReport enables you to understand how much space the files and directories consume on your disk drives, and it helps you find obsolete files and folders. The tool analyses your disk drives and collects several statistics which you can view as overview charts and details tables. This is ad-free uncrippled no-charge software that never expires. JDiskReport runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, and other platforms. It requires Java. JDiskReport requires Java. Make sure Java is installed before you install JDiskReport. The tool has been tested on Windows, Mac, and Linux; it runs also on Solaris and other Java-enabled operating systems. A stable preview of JDiskReport 2 is available. This version is rawer than other releases that you have downloaded from JGoodies in the past. It lacks some features (you cannot click in the size pie), but can be run as a cron job (executed in the background), provides more information, and has seen a visual cleanup.

Starting Price: Free

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8 Zip

Finebits

8 Zip is a powerful file archiver for Windows 10. Create an archive file (ZIP, 7z, TAR, GZIP, BZIP2, XZ) Open archives (RAR, ZIP, 7z, ZipX, ISO, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ARJ, CAB...) Strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats. Multi-volume archives extraction support. Extract files form the archive. Add and delete files from archive. Open files in archives and search charm. 8 Zip is supported by Finebits OÜ on the following editions of Windows 10, Windows 10 Home, Windows 10 Pro, Windows 10 Education, Windows 10 Enterprise, Windows 10 Mobile, and Windows 10 Mobile Enterprise. Run the application, click on the "create archive" button, chose the location of an archive, and add files or folders to the archive. The powerful 8 Zip compressor has extended its set of capabilities with new Continuum, Cortana, and Windows Hello technologies. Now one app, one license, one consistent design and functionality for all device types.

Starting Price: Free

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Torrex

Finebits

Using this application you can download any torrents and magnet links and start viewing media content in the built-in media player without waiting for the download completion. Background downloading (Pro version only) Streaming: you can immediately start to watch a movie or listen to music without waiting for download completion. Built-in player, you can watch the downloaded media content without switching to another application. Download any torrent files, and download magnet links. Background music playback. Snapped mode and share contract. The BitTorrent Torrex client keeps getting new powers! Torrex has become even faster and more agile. Thanks to the new Continuum capability, Torrex easily adapts to PC, tablets, smartphones, Xbox, and Hololens. It does not require any special skills and allows you to quickly find, download and control torrent files. You can limit the speed and the total amount of data downloaded.

Starting Price: €9.99 one-time payment

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Aerize Optimizer

Aerize

Get peak performance from your device with this advanced memory cleaner and performance optimizer. Built with proven and tested optimization techniques from the most effective and best-selling system optimizer for BlackBerry, Aerize Optimizer will ensure optimum device performance. From the background, Aerize Optimizer watches the system for performance bottlenecks. Watching system memory and resource usage, ready to provide more system resources to the device. As system resources become more scarce, Aerize Optimizer becomes more aggressive with resource reclamation. Devices perform better when system resources aren't depleted as often. Automatic background optimization requires an in-app purchase. Pro editions have all premium features unlocked without advertisements. Windows 11 is supported with the Windows 10 edition. Avoid memory errors. Alert at memory thresholds. Reclaim precious memory for peak performance.

Starting Price: $9.10 one-time payment

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Dropover

Dropover is a macOS utility that makes Drag and Drop easier. Use it to stash, gather or move any draggable content without having to open side-by-side windows. Using Dropover couldn't be simpler: Just shake your cursor and drop whatever you are dragging onto the shelf. Then simply navigate stress-free to your destination and move all items at once when ready. Whether you are a photographer who works with images or just a casual macOS user, Dropover is designed to be used by anyone and will become second nature in your workflow. Drag various kinds of items onto the shelf, from files, including folders, documents, images, URLs, and text snippets to even web images from your favorite browser. Display the items from the shelf as a stack for quick access to individual files. Watch folders for file changes and automatically show added files on a new shelf. Minimal user interface with previews of dragged content, only there when you need it.

Starting Price: Free

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Amaze File Utilities

Team Amaze

Analyze duplicate files, large videos, blurred, low light, group images, and fast file transfer using WIFI p2p, the inbuilt video, image, music, and documents viewer. List videos, images, and music documents in your device in an interactive UI where you're able to group, sort, and quickly jump to any headers. Analyze internal storage for junk files, duplicate files, large videos, old downloads, screenshots, or recordings. Analyze and group images between memes, low light, blurry, selfies, and group pics. Transfer files directly between two mobile devices on the same wifi network using a high-speed peer-to-peer network. Gesture support in image, video player, play in the background, picture in picture mode, download subtitles within the player. Cool primary, and secondary colors to choose from, with support for app-wide light, dark, and black themes. AES standard file encryption with a password, and fingerprint protection.

Starting Price: Free

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Ultimate File Manager

Paweł Porwisz

Ultimate File Manager (UFM) is an advanced file manager distributed with carefully selected and configured freeware applications. The purpose of the UFM project is to make the best environment to run your favorite applications within one place. The main application of the project is well-known and appreciated total commander file manager (shareware) or its freeware equivalent multi commander. UFM lets you manage all of your files and applications in the best and simplest way. This properly configured, easy-to-use, and very powerful environment gives you the best experience, whatever you want to do! Ultimate File Manager is designed for the Microsoft Windows platform and is distributed to the end user as an installer, which is written in NSIS and Delphi CE. The installer is simple and intuitive. The installer copies all required files and configures the system properly (you can use both normal and portable installation).

Starting Price: Free

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Vifm

Vifm is a file manager with a curses interface, which provides a Vim-like environment for managing objects within file systems, extended with some useful ideas from mutt. If you use vi, Vifm gives you complete keyboard control over your files without having to learn a new set of commands. Vim-like user mappings. Vim-like command-line mode with ranges and abbreviations. Vim-like marks and registers. Directory tree comparison. Operation undoing/redoing/backgrounding. FUSE file systems support. Color schemes can also be applied to specific sub-trees. File decorations are customizable according to their type and/or name. Named bookmarks (tags) Less-like preview mode with customizable viewers. Advanced file filtering and renaming capabilities. One or two pane views within tabs. Shell-like and external command-line editing. Table/grid/tree/miller views of files. Built-in integration with GNU Screen and tmux. Multi-block selection. Cross-platform (GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, Windows, Mac OS)

Starting Price: Free

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Worker

Ralf Hoffmann

Worker is a two-pane file manager for the X Window System on UN*X. The directories and files are shown in two independent panels supporting a lot of advanced file manipulation features. The main focus is to make managing files easy with full keyboard control, also assisting in finding files and directories by using the history of accessed directories, live filtering, and access to commands by using the keyboard. Worker is free software developed by Ralf Hoffmann and released under the GNU General Public License V2 or later. VFS support for fast and easy access to archives and remote sites. Execute external programs by entering the name and arguments including unlimited history. Powerful mechanism to bind external programs to buttons, hotkeys, or file types (e.g. gimp, tar, diff, mount), including inserting names of selected files, source and target directories, and much more. Text viewer both separately and in an embedded pane.

Starting Price: Free

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4Pane

4Pane is a multi-pane, detailed-list file manager for Linux. It is designed to be fully featured without the bloat and aims for speed rather than visual effects. In addition to standard file manager things, it offers multiple undo and redo of most operations (including deletions), archive management including 'virtual browsing' inside archives, multiple renaming/duplication of files, a terminal emulator, and user-defined tools. As you can see from the Screenshots its display is split into a left directory tree-view, and a right detailed-list view which by default shows both files and directories. There are normally two of these twin panes displayed (thus the name) but this, and almost everything else, can be configured to suit your needs. It has been built and tested on all the main Linux distros, using both current and older versions. Though it has a gtk-style appearance, it's not tied to any particular desktop.

Starting Price: Free

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QtFM (Qt File Manager)

QtFM

Qt File Manager for Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS. XDG integration. Customizable interface, powerful custom command system, customizable key bindings. Drag & drop functionality, tabs support, removable storage support. System tray daemon (qtfm-tray(1)) Show available storage/optical devices in the system tray. Auto mount (and open) storage/optical devices when added (not default). Auto-play CD/DVD (not default). Extensive thumbnail support (6.2+) Supports image formats through ImageMagick. Supports PDF and related documents. Supports video formats through FFmpeg. Supports embedded images in media files.

Starting Price: Free

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Sunflower

Small and highly customizable twin-panel file manager for Linux. It is intended to be an easy-to-use and powerful file manager that seamlessly integrates into the GNOME desktop environment (but is not limited to). Feature-packed configuration to help make the program your own. More flexibility in your daily operations through easy to use interface. Set of tabs for every occasion. Visually mark your files and directories for quick reference. Quick access to the command line interface through terminal tabs, VTE, or external. Better multitasking with full multithreading support. Easily extensible with Python and GTK+. Fully optimized for keyboard users. Sunflower is a small and highly customizable twin-panel file manager for Linux with support for plugins. Fully compatible and native to Wayland compositors.

Starting Price: Free

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ForkLift

BinaryNights

The most advanced dual pane file manager and file transfer client for macOS. Connect to SFTP, FTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3, Backblaze B2, Google Drive, Rackspace CloudFiles, SMB, AFP, and NFS remote volumes and easily manage your files quickly across networks. You can connect to multiple servers at a time and even copy between them with drag and drop. Sits on your menu bar and lets you mount a saved remote connection as a disk, upload files to a remote server from Finder by drag and drop, or run a saved Synclet even if ForkLift is not running. Compare local or remote source and target folders identifying matching, modified, new, and deleted files. Synchronize them one or two-way with a single mouseclick, or save it as a favorite. If you are a web developer, you'll love this feature. The preview panel shows you useful information about the selected file. It lets you playback audio and video files, and inspect images, PDFs, and other popular document types.

Starting Price: $19.95 one-time payment

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Path Finder

Cocoatech

Path Finder is the macOS file browser of choice for thousands of professionals and enterprises worldwide. Path Finder has all the tools you need to take control of your files. Comes with a 30-day free trial. Download now and give it a try. Runs fast and smooth on the latest and greatest Macs. Full Dropbox integration. Just link your account and you're all set up. The code has been polished and supercharged to fly on Big Sur. FolderSync is Cocoatech's Folder Comparison and Synchronization tool and it's powerful. Browse files and perform file operations on your USB-connected iOS devices. Use Path Finder's intuitive dual-pane browser to copy files from one pane to the next, with just a single click. Arrange files in a group based on a specific file attribute. Freeze drag-and-drop operations by placing files into a temporary stack. Sort by folders, packages, or files first. Select files based on the file name, extension, attributes, and more.

Starting Price: $2.95 per month

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Nimble Commander

Michael Kazakov

Dual-pane file manager with classic design. Familiar Mac swiftness, charged for power users. Software developers, system administrators, and IT professionals and enthusiasts. Nimble Commander is built with efficiency in mind to ensure the minimum consumption of system resources. Written mostly in C++, it provides blazing performance and instantaneous user interface response. For instance, handling dozens of windows and tabs is no big deal. Following the strong traditions of orthodox dual-panel file managers, Nimble Commander provides quick keyboard access to file management operations. To save you time, there are keyboard shortcuts for more than a hundred actions. Nimble Commander is designed to be flexible and comfortable for a vast range of uses. Colors, sizes, fonts, presentation types, filename trimming, quick search behavior, external tools, terminal emulator position, hotkeys layout, you can customize all of that.

Starting Price: $29.99 one-time payment

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XtraFinder

Tran Ky Nam

Tabs, dual panel, and numerous features for Mac's native Finder. Quick access to dozens of functions made available in menus, context menu, and toolbar. Press Command + X to cut, and press Command + P to paste. Copy and move file one by one, no matter how many times you press copy/cut/paste shortcut without waiting for previous operations to complete. Keep folders above files. To see the complete file name of all files without manually adjusting column width. Pretty label drawing like legacy Finder. Full row label. Custom color, also known as light text on a dark background, colorful icons in the sidebar. Middle-click to open the folder in a new window or new tab. Display folder item count in a list view. Display the size of selected items in the status bar. You need to disable SIP to uninstall XtraFinder on OS X 10.11 - 10.15. Please periodically (monthly) check XtraFinder's website.

Starting Price: $4.99 one-time payment

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TotalFinder

TotalFinder for Mac users who demand more from their Finder. TotalFinder works like the normal Finder but adds tabs, dual panels, colored labels, and other features. Please keep in mind that TotalFinder is an add-on that gets loaded into the Finder when you launch TotalFinder.app. It does not modify your Finder files on the disk. TotalFinder is installed as a standalone application. But when launched it changes the current instance of Finder running in memory. I call this process TotalFinder injection into Finder. Due to the nature of how TotalFinder works, there is always a minor risk that TotalFinder might break with future Finder updates. Our entire team uses TotalFinder on a daily basis so we spot problems very quickly. So far, Finder updates have generally introduced minor changes. I am also a member of Apple’s Developer Program and have access to pre-release versions of system updates. I am committed to keeping TotalFinder compatible with Apple’s updates.

Starting Price: Free

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Marta

File manager for macOS. Native, extensible, and fast. Marta is a native macOS application written entirely in Swift. Not only it allows for a native experience, the application is also blazingly fast, click or press. Whenever you prefer to use a keyboard or a mouse, you will feel comfortable in Marta. All hotkeys are customizable. Marta doesn't collect or sell your data. There's no hidden functionality or backdoors and will never be. Work with archives as with folders on your Mac. Marta opens and writes ZIP archives, and opens RAR, 7Z, XAR, TAR, ISO, CAB, LZH, and many more formats. You can even look through and edit files in nested archives! Designed with power users in mind, Marta provides a vast of configuration options. Instead of cluttered tabs where you can't find anything, there's a streamlined DSL that makes configuration editing and sharing a trivial matter. Marta comes with five polished themes. Whether you like light or dark backgrounds, there's one for you.

Starting Price: Free

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