Native for macOS

Two panes. Either direction.

MacFolders is a dual-pane file manager. The active pane is the Source; the other is the Destination. Copy, move, compare, search, and pack files without hunting through overlapping Finder windows.

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macOS 14 Sonoma or later Apple Silicon and Intel Version 1.6.39 · 17.3 MB

MacFolders dual-pane window with bookmark menu open — Source on the left, Destination on the right — with tabs, a native path bar, and saved bookmarks.

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What it does

Built for people who live in folders

Dual panes, not dual windows

Each pane has Finder-style lists, folder tabs, and a path bar. Flip Source and Destination, or swap the two folders, without losing your place.

Copy, move, compare

Transfers queue in a persistent window — pause, resume, reorder, or cancel any of them. Folder compare paints identical, missing, and changed items. A side-by-side comparator opens text and binary files.

Find, pack, preview

Search by name, content, size, and date. Browse zip and tar like folders. Preview code and documents in a separate window that follows the Source selection.

Compare

See what changed, then keep what you want

Compare two folders by name. Matching items go green, missing items red, and same-name files with a different date orange. Then Keep Source or Keep Destination — with an option to keep only the newer file.

Need the contents of two files? File Comparator shows a side-by-side text or hex view, jumps between differences, and can hide matching lines.

File Comparator window showing JSON differences — Changed lines in amber, added in green, removed in red.

Connect

Browse a server like a local folder

Connect to Server (⌘K) opens FTP or SFTP in a pane you browse, drag, upload, and download exactly like a local folder. Passwords and key passphrases stay in the Keychain; SFTP host keys are pinned.

Enter a host, pick Password or Private Key, and the remote pane behaves like Source or Destination — copy, move, and compare work the same way across the connection.

MacFolders pane connected to and browsing an SFTP server — Connected to an SFTP server — the remote folder behaves like any local pane.

Terminal

A terminal that follows your path

F11, ⌃⌘T, or the terminal icon opens a colored, resizable shell below either pane — no separate window, no switching to Terminal.app. As you navigate — Backspace, a double-click, the path bar, or a bookmark — the shell sends a cd to match, so its prompt always sits in the folder you're looking at.

Inside a git working tree, a small toolbar above the shell adds Git Status, Fetch, Pull, Push, and Commit All…, alongside Clear Terminal. Each pane remembers its own height and whether it's open.

MacFolders embedded terminal open below the file list, in the same folder as the pane above it — The shell's prompt always matches the folder open above it.

Looks at home on a Mac

Native lists, themes, and a toolbar you can shape

A unified toolbar with Icon and Text. Finder icons in the file list. Appearance can follow macOS, or you can lock Light or Dark and pick a theme — Native, Paper, Sand, Ice, Midnight, Forest, Ember, Commander, Xcode, or Retro.