Finally, a file manager from 2026!
Indexes your whole drive in minutes. Instant search, visible folder sizes, keyboard-driven everything. Built in Rust, free for personal use.
Source-available · Free forever for personal use · Commercial from $59/year
Built by a dev who’s used two-pane file managers for 35 years and couldn’t find a good one on Mac.
Built for power users
Unimaginably fast, keyboard-driven, and gets smarter every week.
Live full-disk index
Indexes your entire drive in 4 minutes. Once. Then stays current forever, even across restarts.
Private LLM included
Comes with an on-device model for local, private use. Bring your own OpenAI/Anthropic/etc. API key for smarter results.
Really, really fast
Built in Rust. Opens a 100k-file folder in 4 seconds with icons, sizes, and dates, cold. In 1 second when warm.
Keyboard-first
Kb-first navigate, select, copy, move, rename; menus, tabs, settings; command palette. But works with a mouse, too.
Fresh and upcoming
Smart search
Find files by saying: “that PDF contract from last month” or “all my node_modules folders”
Planned
Natural language rename
Commands like “make these files lowercase and add date prefix”. No regex, no scripts.
Planned
AI file organization
Say “Clean up my Downloads folder” to get a list of move/delete suggestions you can approve/reject.
Notes from the dev
I first used Norton Commander at 6, then was a huge Total Commander fan for ~20 years. When I switched to the Mac, all ~10 alternatives I tried were meh. Cmdr is the first actually promising one.
David
software eng
Whaaat? 100k files in 4 seconds? That is INSANE! With full icons, sizes, dates, everything. Try doing that in Whatever Commander!
David
software eng
Live full-disk index and instant AI search with a private LLM? What a time to be alive! I wouldn’t believe it works if I didn’t build it myself. ;)
David
software eng
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Cmdr is in open beta: solid for daily use, and your feedback shapes what’s next. See the feature status.
Free for personal use · Commercial from $59/yr
Source-available · BSL 1.1 license