Four view modes
Icons, List, Columns and Gallery, from the toolbar or ⌘1–⌘4. Folders sort before files, then by name, using the system’s own ordering.
0.1.0Finder++ · Capability index
Everything it does,
as of 0.5.0.
34 capabilities
Grouped by what you are trying to do, and dated by the beta each one arrived in. Nothing here is planned, in progress or nearly ready — it is a list of what the build you can download today actually does.
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Browsing
The four views, and what they draw.
Real previews, not type icons
Icon and Gallery draw Quick Look previews of the files themselves. A file is thumbnailed once and shared between the two views rather than regenerated per view size.
0.1.0Quick Look
Spacebar previews the selection, Escape closes it — the system’s own preview, not a reimplementation.
0.1.0Sortable list columns
Click Name, Date Modified or Size to sort by it; click again to reverse. A new navigation resets to the location’s natural order, reloading the same folder keeps your sort.
0.5.0Hidden files
⇧⌘. shows them in the file views, as it does in Finder. The sidebar’s own tree deliberately does not answer to it.
0.5.0Applications as Finder shows them
Applications and Utilities are merged the way Finder presents them, including what lives on the system volume.
0.5.0Getting somewhere
The sidebar, the path bar and the ways back.
Sidebar Favorites
Drag any folder in, reorder it, rename what it is called. The list persists with its order, display names and icons.
0.1.0Back, forward and up
The toolbar buttons, ⌘[ and ⌘], or ⇧⌘G to type a path.
0.1.0Folders expand in the sidebar
A disclosure chevron opens a favourite in place, so you can drill into it without changing what the main view shows.
0.2.0A path bar you can type into
Click the trail where the crumbs are not, or press ⌘L, and it becomes a field holding the current path. Return goes there, Escape puts the crumbs back.
0.3.0Completion against the disk
Folder and file names complete as you type, so a path can be found rather than remembered. Names complete without a trailing separator, because typing one is how you say you want to go deeper.
0.3.0A crumb is a control
Right-click any crumb in the trail to copy its path, reveal it in Finder, point the terminal panel at it, add it to the sidebar, or open it in a second Finder++.
0.3.0Recents and Shared
The files you opened most recently and the files others have shared with you — the same Spotlight queries Finder’s own rows are built on, so the app keeps no history of its own.
0.3.0Tags
A row per standard tag colour at the foot of the sidebar, each one a Spotlight search for what carries it.
0.3.0Locations and iCloud Drive
The startup volume, and iCloud Drive when the Mac is signed in, listed the way Finder composes them.
0.3.0Trash
A row below Recents. It lists the Trash in place when the app has Full Disk Access and hands it to Finder when it does not.
0.3.0Finding things
Filtering what is on screen, and asking Spotlight for what is not.
Filter as you type
The toolbar field filters the folder on screen by name on every keystroke. Emptying it puts the folder back.
0.3.0The searches filter cannot answer
A list drops below the field offering names or contents, in this folder’s tree or across the whole Mac, plus the kind of file the word suggests. ↑ ↓ move through them, Return runs one.
0.3.0Spotlight results in place
A chosen search runs through Spotlight and shows its results where the folder was. They are a query rather than a folder: capped, read-only, and only as good as the index behind them.
0.3.0The terminal and the agents
The reason the app exists.
A shell in the folder on screen
Control- opens a terminal panel below the file list, already in the directory you are browsing, using your own login shell.
Claude and Codex, docked
A right-hand panel runs the claude and codex commands already installed on your Mac, each in the browsed folder and each restartable on its own.
Nothing bundled, no account
Neither tool ships inside the app and the app carries no account of its own. It runs what you have installed, as you.
0.1.0Working with files
What the app will do to what is on your disk.
The contextual menu you expect
Open, Open With, Quick Look, Get Info, Rename, Compress, Duplicate, Make Alias, Copy, Share, Tags and Move to Trash.
0.1.0Windows-style file moves
Control-X marks the selection and Control-V moves it. ⌘X marks it too, but only when nothing is being edited, so ⌘X still cuts text in a field.
0.1.0Never overwrites at the destination
An existing name where files are being moved is never replaced. That item stays pending instead.
0.1.0Copy as Pathname
The absolute path of any file or folder, from the contextual menu — the thing a file browser next to a terminal is asked for most.
0.2.0Get Info that says something
Kind, size, created and modified dates, permissions, owner and the default app, with a combined count and total size when several items are selected.
0.5.0Rename in place
In the list view the name becomes editable where it sits, base name selected and extension left alone. Return commits, Escape reverts.
0.5.0Drag and drop
Between folders, in the list and icon views. Always a move; there is no Option-to-copy modifier yet, and the gallery filmstrip and column browser do not take a drop.
0.5.0Undo and redo
For a move, a rename, a New Folder and a Move to Trash. Not for a copy, a duplicate, a compress or a Make Alias.
0.5.0Progress you can cancel
A move or copy big enough to be worth watching runs off the main thread with a determinate count and a Cancel button. Quitting mid-operation asks rather than silently refusing.
0.5.0Keeping up
What happens while you are not looking.
It reopens where you left off
The last real folder, the view mode and which panels were open all come back on the next launch.
0.5.0The folder follows the disk
A change made in another app, a shell in the terminal panel or a sync client appears within about half a second, without ⌘R.
0.5.0Reloads keep your place
A refresh — from the watch, from ⌘R, or after a file operation — preserves the selection as well as the scroll position.
0.5.0Measured, not assumed
What it costs to open a very large folder.
One folder of 20,200 entries on a local SSD, measured on 19 September 2026 in the app’s own repository. They are here because “feels fast” is not a number, and because two of them are the reason nothing else was optimised.
- What
- Cost
- Reading the directory’s 20,200 entries
- 31.6 ms
- Building every item’s metadata and sorting it — what opening a folder does today
- 91.9 ms
- The same sort done the old way, before 19 September 2026
- 835.3 ms
- Filtering 20,200 items, per keystroke
- 26.0 ms
- Reloading all four views at 20,200 items
- 2.6 ms
- One Quick Look thumbnail, cold
- ~200 ms
The last two are the ones deliberately left alone: AppKit reloads lazily, so redrawing the three views you cannot see costs nothing worth reclaiming, and a cold thumbnail is the system generating a preview rather than anything this app controls.