Cmdr

Cmdr is on macOS what Total Commander is on Windows: familiar shortcuts, two panes, fast and transparent. Built with Rust, it's extremely fast and respectful of your CPU, RAM, and disk.

Plus it has two more cool things:

• It indexes your drive for near-instant search and to show you live folder sizes (optional, enabled/disabled at onboarding!)
• AI features like bulk renames and search (optional, off by default, can run 100% locally, and all destructive operations need human approval)

Cmdr is in open beta: the core is well-tested software used daily by the author and a group of testers, while the newer features (search, archives, operation log, AI) are marked as "alpha". Your feedback is very much appreciated and goes straight to the developer!

Cmdr is source-available under the Business Source License 1.1, and the source is on GitHub. Free for personal use, commercial license for work use.

Core features:

• Two panes, tabs, command palette, keyboard-first. F5 to copy, F6 to move, F8 to delete, all remappable.
• Copy, move, rename, delete, compress and decompress, with accurate progress bars, ETAs, and cancellation. Built for data safety, speed, and transparency.
• Queue operations, background them, pause and resume transfers, and browse a searchable log of past operations, with rollback where nothing was permanently deleted.
• Lists 50,000 files near-instantly; the built-in viewer opens a 10 GB file in 1 sec, with search. (!)
• Browse zip, tar, and 7z archives like normal folders, and compress/extract archives.
• Real dark and light modes, native macOS behavior, WCAG 2.2 AA and APCA verified contrasts, so you can read what's on the screen.
• Translated into 10 languages.

Extra features:

• Reads/writes Android phones, Kindles, and cameras over MTP and PTP, up to 4x faster than Android File Transfer, with any USB cable. Just plug it in and it works.
• Uses SMB network drives 4x faster than the macOS client, but for small files it's sometimes 100x.
• Keeps a fully local index of your disk, for live folder sizes and fast search.
• Browse Git history, branches, worktrees, and stashes like normal folders.

AI features (optional, off by default, and can stay fully local with a built-in LLM):

• Natural-language search: "Find my tax report from last year"
• Smart selection: "Select all screenshots in this folder"
• Chat: "Why is my Downloads folder so big?"
• Local image indexing: "Find photos where a dog looks into the camera"
• Natural-language renaming: "Rename these screenshots based on their content." The agent only suggests; you review, apply, and can roll back.
• Auto-organization is coming soon.
• The model runs on your Mac by default; bring your own OpenAI, Claude, or Gemini key (or ollama, etc.) for better models.
• With AI off, Cmdr is a complete Total Commander-style file manager!