Your shortcuts. Your apps. Your explorer.

Windows Explorer for macOS. A file manager for devs.

F2, Enter and Delete work just like on Windows, and you get the terminal, Git and RegExp filters in a single window. Native, fast and private, with no telemetry.

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Mac Explorer — My Computer
Mac Explorer: the “My Computer” start screen with favorites, drives and recently used files

The comfort of Windows Explorer. The performance of a Mac.

Mac Explorer doesn't try to reinvent files. It lets you handle them quickly, predictably and your own way — no matter where you're coming from.

Switching from Windows

Enter opens, Backspace goes up, Delete removes, and the side mouse buttons handle Back/Forward. The address bar is exactly where you expect it — no need to retrain your muscle memory.

Developers and power users

The terminal starts in the current folder, the Git section shows the branch and changes, the filter supports RegExp, and the list shows MIME, chmod and owner. Add your own scripts without rebuilding the app.

Anyone who wants simplicity

No trying to be an IDE, an FTP client and an admin panel all at once. One clear view, two presentation modes and the set of operations you actually use every day.

A bug Apple truly loves #015

Finder forgets how you set up the window.

You stretch the window to fill the screen. You close it. You open a new one — and it's small again, in a random spot. You stretch it once more. You close it. You open it. Wrong again. Finder saves the window state somewhere, but apparently on a sticky note that keeps getting blown away by the wind.

We happen to remember little things like that. Mac Explorer opens exactly where and at the size you left it — because respecting your window layout isn't a premium feature, it's the bare minimum.

// data: bugsappleloves.com/#bug-finder-window-amnesia

  • since ~2001Finder forgets window size — untouched for ~25 years
  • 184 yearsof human life a day spent rearranging windows
  • 40 hthat's all it would take Apple to fix it

100% native. 0% Electron.

No HTML, JS or CSS underneath — just native Swift and system frameworks. That's why it launches in a fraction of a second and doesn't eat memory when you have dozens of windows open.

284 ms
to first window
median across 10 launches
< 100 MB
RAM usage
+ a small thumbnail cache
100–300
FPS with 1000+ files
smooth scrolling
< 25 MB
on disk
the entire app bundle

// benchmark: Apple M4 Max · macOS 26.5.2 · 36 GB RAM · local build

Start screen

“My Computer,” just as you remember it.

Favorites, all your drives, their usage and recent files — without digging through hidden sections. A disconnected drive in Favorites doesn't disappear: it stays dimmed and unlocks itself once remounted.

Mac Explorer — My Computer
The My Computer view in Mac Explorer: Favorites, internal and external drives with usage bars, and a Recent section
Favorites with custom icons
Internal and external drives with a usage bar
Mounted network drives — with auto-unlock
Recently modified files at your fingertips

Everything you need, in a single window.

Not just another folder viewer. The tools a developer uses every day — available without reaching for the mouse.

Name and RegExp filters

Type .*View.* and see only what you're looking for. Real-time filtering, even in directories with thousands of files.

A Mac Explorer view with an active RegExp filter and four matching files

Inspector

Preview, dimensions, color profile and full metadata — always in the side panel.

The Inspector panel with a large image preview and metadata: MIME, size, dimensions and color profile

Views and columns

Icons or a detailed list with MIME, chmod, owner and dates.

A detailed file list with columns for MIME type, size, dates, chmod and owner

Undo any operation

Copy, move, rename and delete with full history. ⌘Zworks exactly the way you'd expect.

⌘Z

Drives and devices

Favorites, devices and free space on a single “My Computer” start screen.

  • Macintosh HD107 GB free
  • Backup144 GB free
  • Elements SE1.76 TB free

See a file before you open it.

Know exactly what you're dealing with without launching a single app. Hit Space for a full preview or glance at the inspector — so you spot the right file in seconds and keep moving, even in folders packed with thousands of items.

Quick Look with Space

Space opens the full system preview of the selected file — it works for multiple files at once too.

System Quick Look opened from Mac Explorer, showing a preview of a PNG file

Inspector with metadata

One glance gives you a big preview and every detail that matters for the selected file — right there in the sidebar, always a step ahead of you.

  • MIME type
  • Size and chmod
  • Owner and group
  • Creation and modification dates
  • Images: dimensions, DPI, color profile
  • EXIF
  • PDF: pages, title, author
  • DOCX / XLSX / PPTX without Spotlight

Sizes at a glance

Just like on Windows. The status bar sums up your selection — files, folders, total size and free space — and a quick hover reveals a file's size and details. Perfect for tracking down whatever is eating your disk.

Mac Explorer status bar showing 7 selected items, 2 files and 5 folders, total selected size and free disk spaceHover tooltip over a .dmg file showing its size, created, modified and last accessed dates, MIME type, permissions and owner

Every everyday operation. No surprises.

Creating, renaming, permissions and file info — in small, fast dialogs that don't cover the whole window.

The quick Get Info dialog in Mac Explorer for a JSON file

Get Info

A quick look at size, dates, MIME, chmod and owner — or the system dialog.

The owner, group and chmod permissions editor in Mac Explorer

Owner and permissions

Edit owner, group and chmod in an owner / group / others grid.

New file

Enter any path, nested too — existing or new — and the missing folders create themselves. The file can have any extension, or none at all.

New folder

Create an entire, arbitrarily nested directory structure with a single confirmation — no clicking folder by folder.

Rename

F2 selects just the name stem without the extension by default, so you don't change it by accident. A simple ⌘A selects everything and lets you change the extension too — exactly like on Windows.

Copy, move, drag

⌘C / ⌘X / ⌘V with the system clipboard, drag & drop across apps too. Shift forces a move instead of a copy.

Undo and redo

⌘Z undoes, ⇧⌘Z or ⌘Y redoes. History covers creating, copying, moving, pasting, cutting and deleting.

Safe deletion

Delete and ⌘Backspace move to the system Trash. A destructive undo or redo always shows a warning.

A context menu you configure yourself.

Add your own actions, apps and scripts straight into the right-click menu — exactly where you need them. You can't do that in Finder: everything ends up in the hidden Services menu. Here you arrange the menu around your workflow, and system Services, Quick Actions and Automator still work with no configuration.

The Mac Explorer context menu with file operations, creation, info, and Services and Quick Actions

Context menu

The full set of operations on a file, folder, multiple items or empty space. Unavailable actions are dimmed, not hidden — the interface doesn't “jump.”

The Open With submenu with icons of installed apps in Mac Explorer

Open With…

The apps macOS reports as compatible with the file type — with real icons. “Other app…” opens the system app picker.

A list of Services and Quick Actions available for the selected file in Mac Explorer

Services and Quick Actions

Automator workflows and compatible Quick Actions filtered for the current file — like PeaZip or “Open in Mac Explorer.”

~/PROJECTS/MacOS-Explorer
Mac Explorer with the bottom terminal open and a Git panel showing the main branch

Terminal and Git right where your files are.

No more jumping between windows. Open a terminal in the current directory with one shortcut and check your repository status without leaving the explorer.

  • Built-in terminal

    It opens right in the folder you're looking at — ⌥F12 shows and hides the panel.

  • Git awareness

    The current branch and the number of changed files right in the side panel.

  • Switch branches in two clicks

    Click the branch name, pick another from the list and you're on it — no typing git checkout.

Extensions without limits

Custom integrations, without limits.

Attach any actions to files and folders — grouped into tidy menus with sub-items. Launch the apps you open with, your own scripts and ready-made toolsets from the context menu or a shortcut, and switch off anything you don't use. Plenty of ready-made menus come in the box:

Scripts

Run npm scripts with your favorite package manager, or any script in the folder using the shell you choose.

Git

Initialize a repository, pull (fast-forward or rebase), push and generate a .gitignore file.

JSON

Format a JSON file or create a minified version of it with a single click.

Organize

Batch rename, flatten directories, remove empty folders and auto-sort by extension or date.

ZIP

Create and extract ZIP and TAR.GZ archives without leaving the explorer.

Images

Convert formats and resize images — all in a single menu.

AI

Send files as context to ChatGPT, Codex, Claude and Perplexity.

Hash

Compute SHA-256 and other digests, or create checksum files.

Locked files

Lock, unlock or force-quit the apps using the selected files. That way you'll never run into a file-access problem again.

Path

Copy the path, file name or File URL, or open the file in Finder.

Quick custom actions connect Mac Explorer with the tools you already use.

VS Code · WebStorm · Warp · CotEditor · Notepad++ · iTerm2 · and any other you add yourself

Experimental feature

Connect anything

Every drive, cloud and server — in one window.

Map object storage, a remote server or your team's cloud and browse it like a local folder — the same navigation, the same shortcuts. No web dashboards, no extra sync app humming in the background.

Internal HD
External HD
Network shares
Removable media
Google Drive
Dropbox
Amazon S3
OneDrive
SFTP
Azure Blob
Azure Files
Backblaze B2
Box
Cloudinary
Doi
Drime
1Fichier
Enterprise File Fabric
FileLu
Filen
Files.com
FTP
Gofile
Google Cloud Storage
Google Photos
HDFS
HiDrive
HTTP
Huawei Drive
iCloud Drive
ImageKit
Internet Archive
Internxt
Jottacloud
Koofr
Linkbox
Mail.ru
MEGA
Akamai NetStorage
OpenDrive
Oracle Object Storage
pCloud
PikPak
Pixeldrain
Premiumize
Proton Drive
Put.io
QingStor
Quatrix
Seafile
Shade
ShareFile
Sia
SMB
Storj
SugarSync
OpenStack Swift
Uloz.to
WebDAV
Yandex Disk
Zoho WorkDrive
Alibaba Cloud OSS
Ceph
China Mobile Ecloud
Cloudflare R2
Arvan Cloud AOS
Bizfly Cloud Storage
Cubbit DS3
DigitalOcean Spaces
Dreamhost
Exaba
Fastly Object Storage
Hetzner Object Storage
Hitachi HCP
Huawei OBS
IBM COS
IDrive e2
Impossible Cloud
Intercolo
IONOS Cloud
Leviia
Liara Object Storage
Linode Object Storage
Magalu Object Storage
MEGA S4
MinIO
Netease NOS
Outscale
OVHcloud Object Storage
Petabox
Pure Storage FlashBlade
Qiniu Kodo
Rabata
RackCorp
Rclone Serve S3
Scaleway Object Storage
Scality RING/ARTESCA
Seagate Lyve Cloud
SeaweedFS
Selectel
Servercore Object Storage
Spectra Logic
Synology C2 Object Storage
Tencent Cloud COS
UCloud US3
Wasabi
Zadara Object Storage
Zata Object Storage
Zero Services ZERO-Z3
Hetzner Storage Box
rsync.net
Synology NAS (SFTP)
Fastmail Files
ownCloud
Nextcloud
ownCloud Infinite Scale
SharePoint Online
SharePoint (NTLM)
Rclone WebDAV
dCache
Rackspace Cloud Files
Memset Memstore
OVH Object Storage
Blomp Cloud Storage
OVH Cloud Archive
Digi Storage
Elkjøp Cloud
Elgiganten Cloud (DK)
Elgiganten Cloud (SE)
ELKO Cloud
Gigantti Cloud
Telia Cloud
Telia Sky
Tele2 Cloud
Onlime
MediaMarkt Cloud
Let's Go Cloud
Phonero Sky
Zenodo
Dataverse
Invenio
Even more coming soon!
One Explorer for
0
data sources

Some sources need a free add-on, installed in a single click. Skip the ones you never use and Mac Explorer stays lean — less disk, less RAM, less CPU.

A quick honest note: no cloud drive can match a local disk's millisecond response times — cloud providers impose their own rate limits, and even the best internet connection isn't as fast or stable as a cable straight to your SSD. We push every trick we can — smart caching, parallel requests, provider- specific tuning — to give you real-time access with zero upfront sync and nothing hoarded on your disk, and we auto-configure the optimal setup for every provider we support. But we'd rather tell you that upfront than let a spinner do it later. On some providers, a handful of tools are also not yet available.

config.jsonc → Settings
The Mac Explorer Settings window with tabs for Favorites, Custom actions and menus, Left panel, Top bar and Advanced

Total control

Configurable to the core, GUI or JSONC.

The sidebar, the order and icons of toolbar buttons, custom actions — all in one convenient JSONC file (JSON with comments), documented right in the comments. Changes load automatically, with no restart, and a broken file doesn't destroy your last valid configuration.

And if you'd rather click — you can now change those same settings in a convenient menu, with changes saved live.

~/.macos-explorer/config.jsonc

Custom sidebar

Pin the folders, drives and shortcuts you actually open. Set your favorites once.

Columns and views

Icons, a list, or details with MIME, chmod and owner. Choose what stays visible.

Hot-reload settings

Save the file and changes load instantly — no app restart. Tweak it and see the effect right away.

Your own apps

Set any apps you use to open files and folders. You decide what launches from where.

⌘, opens the configuration anytime

Ready in minutes

Set it once. It works your way.

A short guided setup gets you going in just a few minutes. Pick your editor, terminal and IDEs, and Mac Explorer wires up quick actions for the tools you already use — so from the very first launch it feels like yours, not like something you have to learn.

Mac Explorer setup screen titled Choose your everyday apps, with cards for a text editor, terminal and IDEs to create quick actions

For those who switched from Windows

Your fingers already know this.

F2 renames, Enter opens. Instead of relearning macOS from scratch, you just work.

Full support for keyboard, mouse and trackpad gestures — work comfortably, no matter what your setup is.

F2
Rename
Enter
Open file or folder
Delete
Move to trashnot just Cmd+Backspace
⌘F
Name filter
Backspace
Back
Space
Quick Look
⌥F12
Show / hide terminal
A window with the Mac Explorer controls and keyboard shortcuts cheat sheet in three columns

System integration

Open it from anywhere.

Mac Explorer fits neatly into your system and the apps you already use — from Finder to a global shortcut like Win+E.

  • “Open in Mac Explorer” in Finder

    The installed Quick Action opens a file or folder from anywhere. For a file, it opens the parent directory and selects the item.

  • A global shortcut via Raycast

    Assign e.g. ⌘E as a hotkey to summon Mac Explorer exactly like Win+E on Windows.

Mac Explorer — Tips & tricks
The Tips and tricks screen in Mac Explorer with instructions for enabling the Quick Action in Finder and a shortcut in Raycast

Your files stay yours.

The app is cut off from the internet. No data — not even anonymous or telemetry data — reaches our servers. The only network connections are checking for updates and verifying a license. Nothing more.

Zero telemetry

We send absolutely no data to our servers — not even anonymous data, not even usage stats. No analytics module, no background measurement.

Cut off from the internet

The app makes a network connection in only two situations: checking for update availability and verifying a license or trial period. Nothing beyond that.

Safe scripts

Custom scripts receive their arguments as a plain array, never as an interpolated shell command that could be exploited.

Run the numbers on yourself

How much time do you get back over a year?

Every navigation, open and rename is seconds. With hundreds of actions a day, those seconds turn into working days. Plug in your own numbers — the calculator updates live.

120
1
$65/h

// assumption: 3.5 s saved per action, 21 working days / month

7 min
per day, per person
7
2.5 h
per month, per person
2.45
29 h
per year, across the team
29.400000000000002
$1,911
value of time per year
1911.0000000000002

Frequently asked questions.

Does Mac Explorer completely replace Finder?
It can be your main tool for everyday browsing and file handling. macOS still uses Finder in some system places, e.g. in some file-picker windows — Mac Explorer doesn't replace the system process.
Is it similar to Total Commander?
No. Mac Explorer deliberately uses a single pane and a model closer to Windows Explorer. It doesn't force dual-pane work, but it gives you fast copying, moving, history and advanced actions.
Is it native?
Yes. It's a Swift 6 + AppKit app, with no Electron, no browser and no third-party UI frameworks.
Which systems does it support?
macOS 14 or later. It's a universal app: it ships with two natively compiled versions in one bundle — one for Apple Silicon (M-series) and one for Intel — so it runs at full native speed on either architecture with no translation layer.
Does it support network drives?
Yes, if they're mounted in macOS. You can add them to Favorites — when a share is disconnected, the entry stays visible and activates automatically once remounted.
What data sources are available? Can I browse cloud drives, remote servers or storage buckets?

Yes, absolutely. Beyond your local disks, Mac Explorer can browse cloud drives, remote servers and storage buckets side by side with your files — currently 140+ sources (141 at the time of writing), grouped into three tiers:

  1. Tier 1: Internal HD, External HD, Network shares, Removable media.
  2. Tier 2: Google Drive, Dropbox, Amazon S3, OneDrive, SFTP.
  3. Tier 3: Azure Blob, Azure Files, Backblaze B2, Box, Cloudinary, Doi, Drime, 1Fichier, Enterprise File Fabric, FileLu, Filen, Files.com, FTP, Gofile, Google Cloud Storage, Google Photos, HDFS, HiDrive, HTTP, Huawei Drive, iCloud Drive, ImageKit, Internet Archive, Internxt, Jottacloud, Koofr, Linkbox, Mail.ru, MEGA, Akamai NetStorage, OpenDrive, Oracle Object Storage, pCloud, PikPak, Pixeldrain, Premiumize, Proton Drive, Put.io, QingStor, Quatrix, Seafile, Shade, ShareFile, Sia, SMB, Storj, SugarSync, OpenStack Swift, Uloz.to, WebDAV, Yandex Disk, Zoho WorkDrive, Alibaba Cloud OSS, Ceph, China Mobile Ecloud, Cloudflare R2, Arvan Cloud AOS, Bizfly Cloud Storage, Cubbit DS3, DigitalOcean Spaces, Dreamhost, Exaba, Fastly Object Storage, Hetzner Object Storage, Hitachi HCP, Huawei OBS, IBM COS, IDrive e2, Impossible Cloud, Intercolo, IONOS Cloud, Leviia, Liara Object Storage, Linode Object Storage, Magalu Object Storage, MEGA S4, MinIO, Netease NOS, Outscale, OVHcloud Object Storage, Petabox, Pure Storage FlashBlade, Qiniu Kodo, Rabata, RackCorp, Rclone Serve S3, Scaleway Object Storage, Scality RING/ARTESCA, Seagate Lyve Cloud, SeaweedFS, Selectel, Servercore Object Storage, Spectra Logic, Synology C2 Object Storage, Tencent Cloud COS, UCloud US3, Wasabi, Zadara Object Storage, Zata Object Storage, Zero Services ZERO-Z3, Hetzner Storage Box, rsync.net, Synology NAS (SFTP), Fastmail Files, ownCloud, Nextcloud, ownCloud Infinite Scale, SharePoint Online, SharePoint (NTLM), Rclone WebDAV, dCache, Rackspace Cloud Files, Memset Memstore, OVH Object Storage, Blomp Cloud Storage, OVH Cloud Archive, Digi Storage, Elkjøp Cloud, Elgiganten Cloud (DK), Elgiganten Cloud (SE), ELKO Cloud, Gigantti Cloud, Telia Cloud, Telia Sky, Tele2 Cloud, Onlime, MediaMarkt Cloud, Let's Go Cloud, Phonero Sky, Zenodo, Dataverse, Invenio.

The tier is our own rating of how thoroughly we've built and tested support for that specific provider — not a limit on what you can do with it. Tier 1 covers the drives every Mac already sees, Tier 2 is the handful of clouds we test most heavily, and Tier 3 is the long tail of clouds, object stores and protocols we support with the same connection model.

A quick honest note: no cloud drive can match a local disk's millisecond response times — cloud providers impose their own rate limits, and even the best internet connection isn't as fast or stable as a cable straight to your SSD. We push every trick we can — smart caching, parallel requests, provider- specific tuning — to give you real-time access with zero upfront sync and nothing hoarded on your disk, and we auto-configure the optimal setup for every provider we support. But we'd rather tell you that upfront than let a spinner do it later. On some providers, a handful of tools are also not yet available.

Does it show hidden files and thumbnails?
Yes. Hidden files are always visible, but slightly dimmed. Thumbnails come from the system Quick Look, so they look exactly like everywhere else in macOS.
Can I add my own terminal or editor?
Yes. You can add any .app, program or script to the context menu and toolbar via config.jsonc.
Does the configuration require a restart?
No. Changes in the JSONC file are loaded automatically while the app is running — and it's the same when you edit those settings in the GUI.
Does the app send file names or contents anywhere?
No. The core has no network module, no account and no telemetry. Your own user scripts are separate code that you deliberately add.