Folders File Manager

2.0.1

Maintenance release (Feb 06, 2025)

• Bug fixes and substantial performance improvements

2.0.0

Major release (Jan 31, 2026)

This version embraces the new look of macOS Tahoe and brings the ability to browse and modify the contents of ZIP archives:

• Display archives in the folder tree
• Add, extract, or delete individual entries
• Preview entries without extracting

Also:

• In the Gallery View, you can now zoom images with the mouse wheel and freely drag the zoomed image to examine its details
• Added the ability to change RWX permissions in the Info panel
• Quickly remount all previously pinned network shares with a dedicated menu item
• Numerous small improvements
• and Bug fixes

1.28.3

Maintenance release (Dec 31, 2025)

• Emergency fix addressing an issue during a specific file operation

1.28.2

Maintenance release (Aug 01, 2025)

• Bug fixes and minor UX improvements

1.28.1

Minor release (Jul 30, 2025)

• Entering an AFP or SMB URL in the “Go to Folder” dialog will now attempt to mount a network share
• Bug fixes and minor UX improvements

1.28.0

Feature release (Jul 21, 2025)

• New tree node “Cloud Storage” now contains all of your cloud storage folders in one place
• The Info panel now has a more organized, cleaner look
• Added localizations for Polish, Portugese (Brazil), Portugese (Portugal), and Swedish
• Other small UI enhacements, bug fixes, and performance improvements

1.27.0

Feature release (Jul 11, 2025)

• Added localizations for Dutch, French, German, Italian, Norwegian (Bokmål), Spanish, and Ukrainian
• Now in Settings you can disable private trash to speed up external drive operations at the cost of undo availability
• As a part of getting ready for macOS 26, changes in color tags will no longer affect the color label
• Bug fixes and some small improvements

1.26.0

Feature release (Jun 25, 2025)

• Themes! You can now change the main accent color of the app, the color of the top-level nodes or of all folders in a category
• You can now “pin” network shares so that they will remain visible even when unmounted, for quicker remount
• Top-level nodes can now be optionally shown in bold
• Increased the maximum font size
• Bug fixes and other small improvements

1.25.2

Minor release (May 28, 2025)

• Added “Hidden” and “Locked” attribute checkboxes in the Info panel
• Increased the maximum thumbnail size in the Icons view
• If not disabled in Settings, the Applications and Utilities folders now aggregate the contents of System Applications and System Utilities respectively, similarly to Finder
• Bug fixes and UX improvements

1.25.1

Maintenance release (May 23, 2025)

• Bug fixes and minor improvements in UI/UX and performance

1.25.0

Milestone release (May 19, 2025)

• The iCloud Drive folder now shows mobile document containers similarly to Finder (can be switched off in Settings)
• You can now apply text tags and star ratings in bulk with the context menu
• A new “Replace older” option for file conflict resolution
• Minor reorganization of Settings
• File traits now display the file size if there are no more applicable traits
• Other UI/UX enhancements, bug fixes and performance improvements

1.24.0

Feature release (May 06, 2025)

• The “Mount Network Share” dialog now features connection history to quickly remount a share
• Faster transfer of large files from/to network and removable drives
• Support for more metadata entries for audio and video files in the Info panel and Batch Rename dialog
• Bugfixes, various UX enhancements, and performance improvements

1.23.4

Minor release (Apr 13, 2025)

• You can now show/hide the top-level nodes of the tree with a context menu, without having to visit Settings
• In the Go to Folder dialog, you can now enter Windows network paths (like “\\Server\Files”) to quickly get to a folder on a mounted share
• Bug fixes and small improvements

1.23.3

Maintenance release (Apr 09, 2025)

• Considerably reduced memory footprint
• Each window now has its own undo stack
• Bug fixes and performance improvements

1.23.2

Maintenance release (Mar 10, 2025)

• Bug fixes and minor UI/UX improvements

1.23.1

Hotfix (Mar 07, 2025)

1.23.0

Feature release (Mar 05, 2025)

• The activation of the trial period no longer requires Apple ID
• With every new release, the trial period users will now get 2 additional days to evaluate the updates
• You can now redefine the “Home” folder
• In the Table view, middle-click on the header will auto-size the corresponding column
• A new option in Settings to switch off automatic tree expansion following the current folder

1.22.0

Feature release (Feb 04, 2025)

• You can now move the Path bar to the top of the window
• You can now rename Favorites entries as well as other symlinks
• Various minor UX/UI enhancements
• Bug fixes and performance improvements

1.21.0

Feature release (Dec 18, 2024)

• A new toolbar button to open a new tab
• You can now select which nodes should be expanded by default
• You can now choose a folder to be selected by default when a new window/tab is opened
• The status bar can now be hidden
• Bug fixes and other improvements

1.20.0

Feature release (Nov 15, 2024)

• Now you can group folders last in addition to previously available “Group Folders First”
• Improved toolbar appearance
• Various minor UI enhancements
• macOS Sequoia ready
• Bug fixes and performance improvements

1.19.6

Maintenance release (Jul 01, 2024)

• Added support for “Back” and “Forward” mappable mouse button actions
• Bug fixes and various improvements

1.19.5

Maintenance release (Jun 12, 2024)

• “Bin” has been renamed to “Trash”
• Bug fixes and various improvements

1.19.4

Minor release (May 14, 2024)

• New context menu item “Show package contents” on package files
• Improved visibility logic for packages and hidden files
• Other improvements and bug fixes

1.19.3

Minor release (Apr 29, 2024)

• The option to show hidden folders in the tree is now separate from showing hidden files in file views
• A new setting to always show folder extensions
• You can now change the size of icons in the Icons View with ⌘+/-
• Large folders now load much faster
• Bug fixes and other improvements

1.19.2

Minor release (Apr 08, 2024)

• Lengthy file operations are now pausable
• You can now choose your preferred terminal app in Settings
• Open files by double-clicking the preview in the Info panel
• Bug fixes, minor UX and performance improvements

1.19.1

Maintenance release (Mar 28, 2024)

• Bug fixes
• Performance improvements
• Minor UX improvements

1.19.0

Feature release (Mar 21, 2024)

• The new powerful Batch Rename feature:
  • Find and replace text and regular expressions
  • Change case
  • Add text, date, or number sequence
  • Add contents of file properties, such as pixel size of an image, duration of a media file, and other metadata.
• Bug fixes and other improvements

1.18.0

Feature release (Mar 12, 2024)

• Perform basic image operations (flip, rotate) on the most common image formats (PNG, JPG, JP2, TIFF, static GIF, and BMP) in the Gallery view and Info panel
• Edit text files right in the Info panel
• Improved preview in the Info panel for animated GIFs, PDFs, and various office document formats
• New context menu item “Reveal Original” for symlinks and alias files
• Bug fixes and other improvements

1.17.1

Maintenance release (Feb 28, 2024)

• Bug fixes and minor UI/UX improvements

1.17.0

Feature release (Feb 23, 2024)

• In the Grid view, use cmd+mouse wheel to increase the thumbnail size
• More metadata available in the Info panel
• You can now enable thumbnails in Table view and List view as well
• “Show Thumbnails” setting is now remembered individually for each of the four views
• Bug fixes and other improvements

1.16.0

Feature release (Feb 16, 2024)

• Added text recognition in the Gallery view with Live Text
• Bug fixes and other improvements

1.15.3

Minor release (Dec 14, 2023)

• Added some minor customization options
• Bug fixes and improved responsiveness

1.15.2

Maintenance release (Nov 13, 2023)

• Bug fixes and other improvements

1.15.1

Minor release (Oct 31, 2023)

• “Download from cloud storage” icons in file views are now clickable
• The tree view has got a minor facelift so that it feels less cluttered
• Bug fixes and other improvements

1.15.0

Feature release (Oct 19, 2023)

• See and manage the state of cloud-stored files
• Choose between Light, Dark, and System color scheme
• Bug fixes and other improvements

1.14.0

Feature release (Oct 10, 2023)

• Now available to download for free, with a fully functional 14-day trial period
• OS version requirement changed to macOS 13.0+

1.13.1

Maintenance release (Oct 02, 2023)

• Compatibility fixes for macOS Sonoma
• Other bug fixes and improvements

1.13.0

Feature release (Sep 21, 2023)

• In file views, the file changes are now shown in bold
• Icons and Gallery views can now display item traits (similar to Finder’s “Item Info”)
• New “Pixel size” column in Table view
• You can now choose system sounds instead of in-app sounds
• Bug fixes, performance optimizations, and other improvements

This update may reset some remembered view options on the first launch. This is a one-time inconvenience to enable new features.

1.12.0

Feature release (Sep 09, 2023)

• Remember view options for individual folders
• Discover and mount network shares
• New “Touch” function
• Bug fixes and other improvements

1.11.0

Feature release (Aug 28, 2023)

• The Path Bar is now displayed as interactive path control, with a new setting to revert to plain string path
• You can now show text tags and star ratings in the tree
• Added a new setting to show the List view as columns of either adaptive (default) or fixed width
• New windows now open with correctly remembered size
• Bug fixes and other minor improvements

1.10.0

Feature release (Aug 10, 2023)

• You can now edit color tags, text tags, and file’s star rating in the Info panel
• New columns for star rating and Finder comment in the Table view
• Bug fixes and other minor improvements

1.9.1

Maintenance release (Jul 07, 2023)

• Bug fixes

1.9.0

Feature release (Jul 03, 2023)

• Folders now correctly restores its previously opened windows and tabs when “System Settings > Desktop & Dock > Close windows when quitting an application” is turned off
• When “System Settings > Desktop & Dock > Close windows when quitting an application” is turned on, you can now choose to reopen the last visited folder
• It is now possible to hide the Home node in the tree
• Improved progress for lengthy copying/moving file operations

This update will reset the columns in the Table view on the first launch. This is a one-time inconvenience to enable future development.

1.8.1

Minor release (Jun 23, 2023)

• You can now choose a time span for the Recent files in Settings
• Added an option in Settings to automatically quit when the last window closes
• Info panel now shows the information for the current folder when no items are selected
• Various bug fixes and performance improvements

1.8.0

Feature release (Jun 05, 2023)

• Now you can reorder categories in the Folder Tree
• Tags in the Folder Tree can now be expanded by default
• Bug fixes and performance improvements

1.7.1

Hotfix (May 18, 2023)

• Fixed the bug that caused the tree to draw incorrectly after mounting/unmounting a drive of a hidden category

1.7.0

Feature release (May 18, 2023)

• New Tags subtree shows files and folders by a color tag
• New Recent Files tree element shows files and folders modified within last 30 days
• Added a tab in Settings to show or hide certain tree elements
• Minor bug fixes and improvements

1.6.0

Feature release (May 1, 2023)

• Improved navigation in the Gallery view
• More information including common metadata for audio and video files in Info panel
• Bug fixes and small usability improvements

1.5.0

Feature release (Apr 24, 2023)

• Now it is possible to drag folders from/within the folder tree
• New setting to allow manual reordering of Favorites
• New setting to change the font size in main views
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused freezing with Google Drive and/or network drives
• Other bug fixes and performance improvements

1.4.1

Maintenance release (Apr 10, 2023)

• Bug fixes
• Minor UI improvements

1.4.0

Feature release (Apr 7, 2023)

• Create an empty (blank) file
• Compare file properties on conflicts during copy/move
• A setting to show or hide file extensions
• A setting to show dates in relative (Today, Yesterday) or absolute format
• Bug fixes and usability improvements

1.3.0

Feature release (Mar 31, 2023)

• Expandable Favorites: Not just shortcuts to follow, but fully interactive expandable folders right in the Favorites section of the tree
• Bug fixes, usability and performance improvements

1.2.0

Feature release (Mar 22, 2023)

• New Gallery view
• Updated List view
• Bug fixes and usability improvements

1.1.1

Maintenance release (Mar 11, 2023)

• Bug fixes and stability improvements

1.1.0

Feature release (Mar 06, 2023)

• Recent Folders menu
• Manually enter or edit the destination path
• New supplementary keyboard shortcuts
• Bug fixes, usability improvements, performance improvements

1.0.0

Initial release (Feb 21, 2023)

• Universal app
• The folder tree
• Comprehensive undo
• Three consistently behaving views (Icons, List, Table)
• Multiple windows
• Multiple tabs
• Convenient access to your Home and iCloud Drive folders
• Folder symlink traversal in the tree
• Multiple color tags
• Touchbar support
• Cut via Bin with ⌘X
• Creation and extraction of ZIP archives
• Built-in preview in Info panel
• File details with EXIF metadata
• In-app audio and video playback
• Open files with Return key
• Quick Look
• “Folders first” grouping