Folders File Manager

Folders File Manager is designed for those who recently transitioned from a PC as well as for seasoned macOS users who missed a tree-style file manager on their Mac.

Clean, functional UI

Get everything you’d expect from a file manager, with the most used functions brought to the top.

Comprehensive undo

Undo any file operation including replacements and folder mergers.

Easy navigation

Familiar from other operating systems, the folder tree feels right where it belongs.

Dedicated buttons to duplicate current window and current tab. Expandable Favorites and Home folder

iCloud Drive, Cloud Storage, Recent Files

Color tags & text tags

Star ratings

→ Multiple windows and multiple tabs

→ Convenient access to your Home and iCloud Drive folders

→ All your cloud storage in one place

→ Unique expandable, rearrangeable Favorites

→ Expandable folder symlinks

→ Recent files, color tags, text tags, and star rating in the tree

Four consistently behaving file views:

Table, List, Icons, and Gallery view.

Table View

Icons View

List View

Gallery View

→ “Folders first” and “Folders last” grouping

→ File changes shown in bold

→ Open files with Return key

→ Quick Look preview

→ Play audio and video files directly in Gallery view

→ Text recognition with Live Text in Gallery view

Separate File Info panel

Large preview

Basic image operations, file properties, edit tags, and assign rating

File permissions, EXIF properties

File metadata

→ Built-in preview including audio and video files

→ File details with EXIF and other metadata

→ Set multiple color tags, text tags, star rating

File operations beyond basics

File conflict resolution

Batch rename

Mount network shares

→ Cut via Trash with ⌘X

→ Create and extract ZIP archives

→ Edit text files and perform basic operations on images

→ Create an empty (blank) file

→ Powerful Batch Rename

→ Compare file properties on conflicts during copy/move with an explicit option to merge folders

→ Discover, mount, and re-mount network shares

Browse and modify the contents of ZIP archives

Archive View

→ Display archives in the folder tree

→ Add, extract, or delete individual entries

→ Preview entries without extracting

Customize

Color themes

Edit colors and order of category icons in Settings

→ Change the main accent color of the app

→ Rearrange and change the color of the top-level nodes or of all folders in the tree belonging to a specific category

Language support

Supports localization for English (US, UK), Dutch, French, German, Italian, Norwegian (Bokmål), Portugese (Brazil, Portugal), Spanish, Swedish, and Ukrainian. More to come.

Lifetime license

One-time purchase with lifetime updates, no ads or subscriptions.

Try Folders for free with a fully functional 14-days trial period

With every new release, get 3 additional days to evaluate the updates

For the full list of features, see User’s Guide and Version History.

Folders is made to feel familiar for newcomers and to look unmistakably Mac.

Light theme, tabs, Table view, changes shown in bold
Dark theme, Favorites, Table view, file permissions and EXIF metadata in Info panel, Star Rating in the sidebar
Light theme, tabs, remembered Gallery view, file traits, EXIF metadata in Info panel, Tags in the sidebar
Dark theme, List view, audio player in Info panel
Light theme, tabs, Favorites, Search, Table view, video player in Info panel
Dark theme, Icons view, file traits, context menu showing file operations
Light theme, tabs, remembered Gallery view, file comparison on copy conflict
Dark theme, Archive view, preview without extraction, context menu showing file operations
Light theme, batch rename dialog