File manager

Copy, organize and preview files side by side.

Keep two folders open, preview files, search large logs and manage disk space. Included in Community.

Download macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Apple silicon · 46.1 MB

MFCommander with two panes open: a detailed listing of a local system folder on the left, and a grid of photo thumbnails on the right, with SFTP, FTP, and Docker connections in the sidebar.

Move files with fewer steps.

F3 opens the viewer, F5 copies, and F6 moves. Tab switches panes. Remap the keys in Settings to suit the way you work.

F3View

F4Edit

F5Copy

F6Move

F7New folder

F8Delete

Two panes, many tabs

Each pane keeps its own tabs, breadcrumbs, sort order, and view mode. Lock a tab and it stays on its folder, so the one you keep coming back to cannot be navigated away by accident.

Transfers run in the background

Copies, moves, and deletes go to a queue you can watch, pause, and cancel.

Search by name or contents

Search opens as its own tab, and its results are a pane you can act on.

Browse an iPhone or iPad over USB

Connect a device to browse its media and documents from file-sharing apps in either pane. Included in Community.

Preview documents, images, code and media.

Community includes all the viewers below, ready to open from either pane.

MFCommander document viewer displaying an Excel workbook. — View most document types, including Microsoft Office, iWork, and PDFs.

MFCommander text viewer displaying syntax-highlighted HTML. — Code and logs use syntax highlighting.

MFCommander image viewer displaying a photograph. — Images include zoom, dimensions, and metadata.

MFCommander media viewer playing a video from an SMB connection. — Play most audio and video files.

See supported file formats

Text and code

Plain text and logs, with syntax colors for Markdown, JSON, YAML, HTML, XML, CSS, Swift, C, C++, Objective-C, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Rust, Go, Java, shell, SQL, TOML, INI, Dockerfiles, and Makefiles. Anything else opens as plain text.

Images

PNG, JPEG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, HEIC, WebP, SVG, and ICNS, with zoom, dimensions, EXIF, and thumbnails in the pane.

Documents

PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, RTF, EPUB, property lists, and configuration profiles.

Audio and video

MP4, MOV, M4V, MKV, WebM, AVI, WMV, FLV, MP3, M4A, AAC, WAV, AIFF, CAF, and FLAC, with playback and seeking.

Open and search large files.

In a recorded test, a 1.09 GB single-line JSON file used 33.3 MB of peak memory. A 256 MB log used 29.3 MB. Results depend on the file and workload.

Read text and hex without loading the whole file into memory. Search the complete file, jump to a line or follow a growing log.

Search the whole file

Find scans the complete file and reports the match count.

Jump to any line

Go to Line seeks straight there, however far into the file it sits.

Follow a live log

Keep a file pinned to its end while something is still writing to it.

Highlighting and hex

Syntax colors for the lines on screen, and a hex mode for everything that is not text.

Find large files and duplicate copies.

Disk Space Analysis

See which folders account for the space on your Mac. Disk Usage measures allocated bytes on disk, with a folder tree and a Largest Files view. Reveal a result in the other pane to inspect it without losing your place in the scan.

Disk Usage showing allocated size and each folder's share of a synthetic local workspace. — A local folder scan, with sizes and proportions shown together.

Duplicate Files

Find matching file contents across a local folder, even when the names differ. Expand a group to compare paths, sizes and dates before choosing copies to remove. Deletion keeps at least one copy and checks that the selected files still match.

Keep a shell beside your files.

Start a local Terminal session in the active local folder. Run commands while the two panes stay in view.

Each session keeps its own working directory as you browse elsewhere, and stays open when you switch or close file tabs. Open another session when you need another shell.

A complete local Terminal panel showing ls -la, file permissions, sizes and names, and the returned shell prompt. — The local shell stays with the window as you move between file tabs.

Review file operations and roll back eligible changes.

Window ▸ Operation History records copy, move, rename, duplicate, delete, and Move to Trash operations as they run. Open an entry to see its outcome and review what can be rolled back.

The MFCommander Operation History window: a list of operations grouped by date, one selected reading Copied 3 items to Projects with its transfer size, rate and Completed status, and beside it every file that operation touched with the action taken and the result, above a Roll Back button. — One operation selected, every file it touched listed beside it, and Roll Back for the whole thing.

Undo the last one

Edit ▸ Undo reverses the most recent reversible operation. Outside a text field, that is ⌘Z.

Roll back an older one

Select an eligible entry in Operation History and choose Roll Back to review its reversal.

It previews before it acts

Review Rollback lists what will be restored and what will be skipped. Each item is checked again when rollback runs. Items changed since the original operation are skipped.

Choose how long to keep the history

Thirty days by default, or this session only, 7 days, or 90. Clear History removes the saved record. The history stays on your Mac.

All of this is free, forever.

Community includes the local file workspace and all these tools, with no time limit.

Pro adds the remote connections, so the same viewer reaches SMB shares, SFTP servers, S3 buckets, OneDrive, and Dropbox.

Download See what Pro adds