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 tabs, with saveable tab sets
→ Convenient access to your Home and iCloud Drive folders
→ All your cloud storage services collected 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
List View
Icons View
Gallery View
→ Full control over remembered view settings for individual folders
→ “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
Fast and powerful search
→ Search with Spotlight or with full scan
→ Save Spotlight searches for later reuse
File operations beyond basics
File conflict resolution
Batch rename
Mount network shares
→ Cut / Cut via Trash with ⌘X
→ Edit text files and perform basic operations on images
→ Create an empty (blank) file, an office document, or an automatically typed file from the clipboard contents
→ 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
Customize
Color themes
Change the color of folder icons in the tree
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
→ Sync your settings between Macs with iCloud
Create, browse, extract, and modify archives
→ Supports zip, 7z, rar (read-only), tar, xz, gz/gzip, zlib, bz2/bzip2, and lz4
→ Display archives in the folder tree
→ Add, extract, or delete individual entries
→ Preview entries without extracting
Language support
Supports localization for English (US, UK), Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian (Bokmål), Portugese (Brazil, Portugal), Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, and Ukrainian.
Universal binary
Written in Swift, runs natively on both Intel and Apple silicon.
Lifetime license
One-time purchase with true 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.
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Light theme, tabs, Table view, changes shown in bold
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Dark theme, Favorites, Table view, file permissions and EXIF metadata in Info panel, Star Rating in the sidebar
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Light theme, tabs, remembered Gallery view, file traits, EXIF metadata in Info panel, Tags in the sidebar
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Dark theme, List view, audio player in Info panel
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Light theme, tabs, Favorites, Search, Table view, video player in Info panel
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Dark theme, Icons view, file traits, context menu showing file operations
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Light theme, tabs, remembered Gallery view, file comparison on copy conflict
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Dark theme, Archive view, preview without extraction, context menu showing file operations
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Light theme, batch rename dialog