Daz Explore
Classic-style file manager
Only for Mac
$4.99
Mac
Explore is a classic, purposeful file manager for macOS — built for people who want their computer to feel like a filesystem again, not a curated experience.
Explore gives you a single window with the pieces you expect: a tree on the left rooted at the top of your drive, a content pane showing the selected folder, and an optional preview pane for the selected file. Four view modes — Large Icons, Small Icons, List, and Details — let you switch between seeing file names at a glance or every column of metadata at once. Every file-type you care about gets a real content thumbnail: photos show as photos, videos show their first frame, PDFs show their first page, all generated in the background with zero-wait redraws.
Key features:
- Real directory tree. Left-hand sidebar rooted at the top of your disk with lazy expansion; selected folder auto-scrolls into view so you never lose your place.
- Four view modes you can toggle from the toolbar or ⌘1-4: Large Icons, Small Icons, List, and Details (with sortable columns).
- Zoom the icon views continuously from the toolbar or ⌘+/⌘-/⌘0.
- Fast, persistent thumbnails for HEIC, JPEG, PNG, MP4, MOV, PDF, and every other common format. Cached to disk so re-opening a folder of photos is instant.
- Editable path bar pinned below the toolbar — type any path, press Return, navigate.
- Rich right-click menus on both files and empty folder space: New Folder, New File, Duplicate, Rename, Compress, Move to Trash, Copy Path, Reveal in Finder, Open in Terminal Here, Services, and more.
- Drag files between windows to move (or Option-drag to copy). Open as many windows as you want — each holds its own path, view mode, sort, and zoom.
- Native keyboard navigation: arrows, type-to-select, ⌘↓ to open, ⌘↑ to go up, ⌘⌫ to trash, ⌘D to duplicate, ⌘I for info, Space for Quick Look.
- Preview pane with live content previews, collapsible to whatever width you want (it stays where you drag it).
- Command-line companion. A bundled `explore` helper lets you open any path from Terminal: just `explore ~/Downloads` or `explore .`.
Explore runs in the macOS App Sandbox. On first access to a folder Explore hasn't seen before, a standard system prompt asks you to grant access — one click per top-level folder and Explore remembers it forever after.
No accounts, no telemetry, no cloud sync. Just a file manager.
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Information
- Seller
- Inside Mind Pty Ltd
- Size
- 10.3 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 13.0 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 13.0 or later.
- Mac
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Darren Oakey
