Quite Goofy Explorer

Better than you'd expect

Only for Mac

Free · In‑App Purchases

Mac

QGExplorer A familiar, no-nonsense file manager for macOS — especially if you came from Windows or Linux. QGExplorer is a macOS file manager built around the patterns power users already know from File Explorer and Linux file managers — editable path bar with autocomplete, detailed list views with sortable columns, an expandable sidebar tree that behaves like a tree, full keyboard navigation, tabs, and a real preview pane. If you've ever felt that managing files on macOS asks you to give up habits you spent years building, this is for you. It's also fast, free of clutter, has no telemetry, no popups, no upsells, and intentionally no network access. What's on your disk stays on your disk. Familiar from day one Editable path bar — type or paste a path and press Enter to jump there Detailed list view with sortable, resizable columns (Name, Size, Modified, Created, Kind) Sidebar that expands like a real tree — click to drill in, not magic shortcuts Tabs with shared layout, full keyboard navigation Right-click context menu with the operations you'd expect, on files and folders alike Navigation that gets out of the way List, table, and icon views with adjustable density Sidebar with Suggested Locations, Devices, and your own Spaces (named groups of folder links) Reveal-in-sidebar — jump from any folder back to its place in the tree Path bar with breadcrumbs and right-click menus on each crumb Native macOS window tabs A preview pane that actually previews Images with full EXIF / IPTC / GPS, two zoom modes, prev/next between siblings Text and source files with monospace rendering; PDF with metadata Audio and video with a built-in player and playlist queue Browse inside ZIP, TAR, 7z, RAR, and more — search contents and extract single entries without unpacking the whole thing Quick Actions on selected files Rotate / Convert images while preserving every metadata field Create PDF from images Remove background using Vision Open in Markup with the toolbar already showing Archives done right Bundled libarchive with mbedTLS — reads ZIP, TAR (gz/bz2/xz), 7z, RAR, and more Compress with Options: format, compression level, optional password Password-protected ZIP that actually encrypts Drag entries from inside an archive straight into any folder Filters that find what you need Type filter (images, documents, code, archives, media), tag filter, date filter (created or modified, exact or range) ⌘T / ⌘⇧T — instant "last 24 hours" filter, toggle off with the same shortcut Inline type-filter chips in the search field Daily file operations Slow-click rename, drag & drop, copy / paste, Move to Trash Move-to-Space and Move-to-Folder submenus in the path bar and sidebar Drag from Finder into the empty pane area to import Drag a PDF page from another app to save it here Move-to-Trash protection on system folders Looks the way you want Theme presets including System Default (follows your Light/Dark mode automatically) Save, edit, and switch your own custom palettes Sidebar transparency slider — let your wallpaper show through Privacy QGExplorer is sandboxed and only sees folders you grant through the standard macOS picker. No network entitlement, no analytics, no update server, no telemetry of any kind. It's a local file browser. That's the entire promise. Free 30-day trial, one-time purchase to unlock

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Version 1.7.2 fixes two problems with external drives, adds Get Info for disks, and brings the preview-pane improvements from the previous update. • Moving files to an external drive (such as a Samsung T7) no longer fails with a false "not enough space" message • Granting access to an exFAT drive no longer fails with a bookmark error — the drive opens right away • New: Get Info on any disk or folder shows free space, used space, format and more, with a Finder-style capacity bar • The preview pane is now a place you can work: select a folder to see its contents as tiles, open with double-click or Return, Quick Look with Space, multi-select, drag files in and out, and use Copy, Cut and Paste • Back and Forward return to what was selected, not only the folder • A removable drive pulled out without ejecting now leaves the sidebar instead of lingering with stale contents

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    Seller
    Oleksii Baliuk
    Size
    5.3 MB
    Category
    Utilities
    Compatibility
    Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
    Languages
    English
    Age Rating
    4+
    In-App Purchases
    Yes
    Copyright
    © 2026 Oleksii Baliuk. All rights reserved.