What Cmdr can do
Built in Rust, designed around your keyboard. Cmdr is in open beta: every feature carries an honest status pill, and hovering a pill explains what the status means.
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Live full-disk index
Indexes your whole drive in ~4 minutes, then stays current by watching real-time file system events. Folder sizes show right in the listing, and a background verifier makes sure they don’t drift.
Go to path
Paste or type any path and jump there; it’s new, so recents and edge-case path handling are still settling.
Smart search
Find files like “that PDF contract from last month”. AI turns it into filters, see hits in a second.
Select files dialog
Wildcard and regex matching work well; AI selection is cloud-only and still misses edge cases.
Image search
Search the things (dogs, sunset, document, etc., and also text via OCR) inside your photos and screenshots. Runs on your Mac, fully local.
Private LLM included
Cmdr ships with a 3B language model that runs on your Mac. Nothing leaves your machine. For a smarter AI, you can connect OpenAI/Anthropic/Google/etc., or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint.
AI rename
Rename files by describing what you want, with a full preview before anything changes.
Dual-pane file explorer
Two panes, virtual scrolling through 100k+ files, live file watching, and Quick Look. The heart of the app.
File operations
Copy, move, delete, rename, and new folders with progress, conflict handling, and rollback. The most-tested code in the app.
Operation log
A durable history of every copy, move, delete, and rename, with rollback. The dialog that shows it is still bare-bones.
File viewer
Opens even 10+ GB files instantly, with search and word wrap.
Tabs
Per-pane tabs with pinning, history, and reopen closed tab.
Drag and drop
Drag files in, out, and between panes, including to and from Finder and other apps.
Archives
Browse, create, edit, and extract zip, tar, and 7z archives like folders, including password-protected ones.
Keyboard shortcuts
Customize any shortcut, with conflict detection and scope awareness.
Command palette
Fuzzy-find every action with ⌘⇧P.
Network drives (SMB)
Browsing and fast direct transfers work on common NAS setups; unusual server configs can still cause surprises.
Android devices (MTP)
Fast transfers on most devices, but macOS sometimes claims the device first and some phones need a reconnect.
More file systems
S3 buckets, FTP(S), SFTP, WebDAV, NFS, and more.
Windows and Linux support
Bring Cmdr to more platforms.
Ask Cmdr
Chat with an AI agent about your files. It reads names, paths, sizes, and history, plus any files you attach, and shows what each reply costs. Early, with rough edges. Read-only for now. On-device or Cloud via API key, your choice.
AI file organization
Say “clean up my Downloads folder” and approve or reject each suggested move.
Tell me about this
Right-click any file for a quick AI explanation of what it is.
Git browser
Browse history, branches, tags, and stashes like folders. Very large repos can take a moment to load.
Download notifications
Catches downloads and jumps to the latest with one key; some browsers’ temp-file renames can still slip through.
Disk space visualizer
A built-in treemap to see what’s eating your disk.
Plugins
Extend Cmdr with your own scripts and tools.
Found something rough that’s not listed? Report an issue and it gets fixed faster. For timing, see the roadmap.
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macOS only · Source-available (BSL 1.1)