Folders File Manager is designed for users who recently transitioned from a PC as well as for those who have always missed the folder tree on their Mac. Everything in Folders feels as familiar as possible while satisfying your passion for beautiful-looking apps.
Clean, functional UI:
Get everything you’d expect from a file manager, with the most used functions brought to the top.
Easy navigation:
Familiar from other operating systems, the folder tree feels right where it belongs.
• Multiple windows and tabs, with saveable tab sets
• Convenient access to your Home and iCloud Drive folders
• All your cloud storage in one place
• 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.
• Full control over remembered view settings for individual folders
• “Folders first” or “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:
• 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:
• 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 explicit option to merge folders
• Discover, mount, and re-mount network shares
Create, browse, extract, and modify archives:
• Supports zip, 7z, rar (read-only), tar, xz, gz/gzip, zlib, bz2/bzip2, and lz4 formats
• Display archives in the folder tree
• Add, extract, or delete individual entries
• Preview entries without extracting
Comprehensive undo:
Undo any file operation including replacements and folder mergers.
Themes:
Change the main accent color of the app, the color of the top-level nodes or of all folders in the tree belonging to a specific category.
Universal app:
Runs natively on Apple silicon.
Lifetime license:
One-time purchase with no ads or subscriptions.
• Try Folders with a fully functional 14-days trial period + 3 more days with every update
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Good app, responsive developer
Obscurity knocks
I really like this app. Visually it’s easier to work with than the stock folders app, and the functionality is both extensive and familiar for Windows users.
Terrible, fatal flaw!
jasward
I was quite liking this program, and its functionality, avoiding the dreaded -43 error that seems to block too many bulk file copy and move operations within the Sonoma OS.HOWEVER ... after some months I discovered that the Folders App had - for reasons that I cannot comprehend - built up its own - duplicate - folder library of my data. This duplicate 'library' came to almost 500GB (!!!!!) in size, and came to my attention only because I couldn't understand why Mac OS Finder showed that I'd used up nearly all of my 1TB boot drive.I could maybe have deleted just the duplicate Folders App library, and trialled how things progressed from there, however I feel that if such an enormous flaw in the program exists, perhaps there are other problems there too, that might one day give me regret to have kept the program.Hence - uninstalled.
Developer Response
Thank you for your feedback! May I please ask you to contact me via the form on the Folders’ website so that I could better identify the problem you were experiencing?
Now this is a File Manager!
Ouz Dohan
I’ve looked into all the file managers that are on the App Store and this one is by far what a file manager should be like. Please, please developers never abandon this product. I’ve been crying since I’ve got my Mac m4 trying to find a real file manager. Recommend to anyone who has used File managers on other operating systems, wink wink.
Accessibility
davidaus66
As someone wth sight issues, I could not find any way to increase font size, which leaves no way to give positive feedback as it makes the app difficult to use I have already decreased the resolution, but could not reduce it further as it would make the Mac impossible to use.
Developer Response
You can increase the font size on the “General” tab in Settings (Folders > Settings in the main menu), a slider closer to the bottom of the tab.
• You can now save tab sets to quickly restore a specific window setup
• Bug fixes and UX improvements
Version 2.8.0
The developer, Andriy Konstantynov, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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