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 1.4.0.
58 capabilities
Grouped by what you are trying to do, and dated by the version 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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The parts you cannot see from a list.
Taken in the running app, on invented files.
AreaCapabilityWhat it doesSince
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.
0.1.0A preview pane
Show Preview (⇧⌘P) puts a side pane next to the list or column view with a large preview and the name, kind, size and date of the selection, or the count and total for several.
1.0.0Sortable 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.
0.5.0Folders open in place
In the List view every folder has a disclosure triangle; → opens it and ← closes it. What you open is read when you open it and closes again when you go to another folder.
1.2.0Close or open every folder
Buttons beside Back and Forward: collapse them all, open every folder showing (one more level each press), or open them all and everything inside. Opening everything is read in the background, stops at 10,000 entries and never follows a link to a folder.
1.2.0Close one level at a time
The fourth button closes the deepest open level: every open folder with no open folder inside it closes, so each press folds the tree back up one level, the reverse of opening one more.
1.2.1Hidden 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.
0.2.0The sidebar follows you
Wherever you go — at launch too — the tree opens down to that folder under the closest favourite or location and selects it, folding back up what it opened for the last one.
1.1.0A 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.
0.3.0Filtering reaches into open folders
While you type, the list shows what matches in the folder and in every folder you have opened, with the open folders that lead to a match. Return settles on the plain filter of the folder’s own items.
1.2.0The 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
The terminal shortcut opens a panel below the file list, already in the directory you are browsing, using your own login shell.
0.1.0Claude 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.
0.1.0Copy and paste in the terminal
⌘C, ⌘V and ⌘A, a right-click menu, and Windows Terminal’s keys: ⌃C and ⌃X copy while text is selected and otherwise reach the shell, so ⌃C still interrupts; ⌃V pastes.
1.1.0The terminal keeps up
Hide the terminal, browse somewhere else, show it again, and the shell is there too — when it is sitting at its prompt, never in the middle of an editor, a build or an agent.
1.1.0Light and dark
The terminal and agent panels switch palette with the system appearance, Auto included, instead of keeping the one they started in.
1.1.0Working 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; Control-C copies it (since 1.1.0). ⌘X marks it too, but only when nothing is being edited, so ⌘X still cuts text in a field.
0.1.0Asks before it overwrites
A name already at the destination gets Keep Both, Replace, Skip or Stop, with Apply to All. Replace sends the old version to the Trash and remembers where, so Help ▸ Find Previous Versions can find it after a relaunch. Before 1.0.0 the item was simply left pending.
1.0.0Copy 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.
0.5.0A Get Info window like Finder’s
⌘I opens General, More Info, Name & Extension, Comments, Open With, Preview and Sharing & Permissions, each section folding away and staying folded, with a working Locked box. A folder’s size fills in while it is measured; several items get one window summing them up.
1.1.0Info at a glance
Select something and a card under the sidebar shows its kind, exact size, dates, permissions, owner and default app — or, for several, the counts, commonest kinds, total size and date range. Nothing in it takes time to work out.
1.1.0Rename 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, windows and disks, in every view. Within a disk it moves, to another disk it copies; Option copies and Command moves, and hovering over a folder opens it (not in the column view).
0.5.0Undo and redo
A move, copy, duplicate, rename, new folder, compress, Make Alias and Move to Trash, per window and for the session. An item you changed since is left alone until you choose Undo Anyway.
0.5.0Progress you can cancel
A move or copy big enough to be worth watching runs off the main thread with a count, bytes within the current file, and a Cancel button. Quitting or closing a window mid-operation asks first.
0.5.0Transfers that check themselves
A move to another disk copies first, compares the copy with the original and only then removes it, so an unplugged or full drive leaves the original in place. When a transfer is partial, a sheet lists what was completed, skipped, failed and not attempted.
1.0.0Rename Multiple Items
Previews every new name, flags duplicates and names that already exist, applies the batch in two phases so a failure rolls back, and can be undone as one step.
1.0.0Put Back and Empty Trash
Put Back returns what this app trashed to where it came from, after a relaunch too, in your Trash and in a disk’s own. Empty Trash says exactly what it will delete first. Items Finder trashed can only be put back from Finder.
1.0.0Trash what is not yours
An item the account does not own — a root-owned app the App Store installed — asks for your password, once for everything refused that way in the selection, and goes to your own Trash. Those items have no Undo and no Put Back, because putting one back would need the password again.
1.2.0Show Package Contents
Opens an app or any bundle as a folder, from its context menu.
1.0.0iCloud files
Download Now for files that are only in iCloud, Remove Download only for files iCloud already has in full, and a status line that says which is which and updates when a download ends.
1.0.0Windows, tabs and drives
More than one place at once, and the places that come and go.
Windows and tabs
New Window (⌘N) and New Tab (⌘T). Each has its own folder, history, selection, search, view and terminal panes; Favorites are shared. Folders open in a new tab or window from the sidebar, the path bar and the right-click menu.
1.0.0Every window comes back
Windows and tabs reopen as you left them. A folder or drive that has gone is replaced by the nearest place that still exists, and you are told.
1.0.0Drives in a stable order
Mounted disks are listed internal first, then external, then network, each with a distinct name, and follow mounting, ejecting and renaming as they happen.
0.8.0Eject from the sidebar
Right-click a disk to eject it. A disk that is in use says so and stays mounted.
1.0.0Connect to Server
File ▸ Connect to Server (⌘K) hands an smb, afp, nfs, ftp, http(s) or vnc address to macOS, which asks for credentials; the mounted share appears in the sidebar.
1.0.0Smart Folders
Finder’s saved searches appear in the sidebar and open from the file list; Save Search as Smart Folder keeps the search on screen where Finder keeps its own.
1.0.0Settings
What happens at launch, icon size, which list columns show and automatic update checks (⌘,), plus whether Full Disk Access is on. The last sort you chose is remembered.
1.0.0Keeping 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.