A move, copy, duplicate, rename, new folder, compress, Make Alias and Move to Trash can be reversed inside the app, in the window where you did it. Undo history ends when you quit.
Free · Verified builds
Signed.
Notarized. Checkable.
Every Finder++ build is Developer ID signed, Apple notarized, published at a versioned URL that never serves different bytes, and listed with the SHA-256 you can check yourself.
Before you install it
What to know first.
The full list is on the product page. These are the three that matter while the file is downloading.
When a name already exists at the destination you choose Keep Both, Replace, Skip or Stop. Replace puts the old version in the Trash and remembers where.
It moves real files, like any file manager. Keep a copy of anything you could not replace, and tell us if it does something you did not expect.
Linelark Finder++
The file browser on this page. Native views, tabs, safe file operations, an embedded terminal, and Claude Code and Codex in the folder you are browsing. Free.
Download Finder++Linelark Notepad
The editor. A lightweight native text and code editor for Mac, always free. Installing one does not affect the other.
Go to the editor downloadArchive
Older versions stay available.
Newest first. Each link goes through an anonymous download counter to a file that never changes.
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Install
Three steps.
- Download the versioned DMG.
- Open it and drag Linelark Finder++ into Applications.
- Launch it from Applications or Spotlight. Apple’s notarization ticket is stapled to the image, so there is no right-click-to-open dance and no security warning to click past.
The first time you open a folder macOS protects — Desktop, Documents, Downloads — the system asks whether to allow it. That prompt is macOS, not the app, and declining it only hides that folder.
Verify the 1.4.0 build
shasum -a 256 Linelark-Finder-Plus-Plus-1.4.0.dmgExpected SHA-256
f137ca2d0e2335ee1948ad82d153bbd4dbeb1ba4a66997c3ae73ae83b664125aQuestions
Before downloading.
Is this the same app as Linelark Notepad?+
No. Finder++ is a separate application with its own download, its own version numbers and its own bundle. Installing it does not change, update or interfere with the editor, and removing it does not affect the editor either.
Is it free?+
Yes. There is no account, no subscription and no paid tier to sign up for.
Do I need Claude Code or Codex for it to work?+
No. They are one panel in a right-hand dock. The file browser and the terminal work whether or not those commands are installed, and the dock simply runs whichever of them it finds on your Mac, under your own account.
Does it update itself?+
From version 0.8.0 on, yes: the update button downloads the new version, checks its checksum and its Developer ID signature, then swaps it in for the running copy and reopens it. Versions before 0.8.0 need one manual download.
Will it take over from Finder?+
No. It is an app you open when you want it. macOS keeps handing the Desktop, double-clicks and everything else to Finder.
What happens to my files if it crashes mid-move?+
A move to another disk copies first, checks the copy, and only then removes the original, so a crash leaves the original where it was. Within one disk a move is a rename, one item at a time. Nothing at the destination is replaced without asking, and a move, copy, duplicate, rename, new folder, compress, Make Alias or Move to Trash can be undone for the rest of the session.
Running it is half the contribution. The other half is telling us what broke — send a test report with your macOS version, your Mac, the steps and what happened instead.