Cmdr

Cmdr brings the Total Commander experience to macOS, and (optionally, only if you enable it) adds AI features that genuinely help. Built with Rust, it's extremely fast and respectful toward your CPU, RAM, and disk.

Cmdr is in open beta. It's well-tested, stable software used every day by the author and hundreds of early adopters. Feedback goes straight to the developer!

Source-available (BSL 1.1) on GitHub. Free for personal use, paid license for work.

Core features:

• Basics: Two panes, tabs, command palette, keyboard-first. F5 to copy, F6 to move, F8 to delete, all remappable.
• Operations: Copy, move, rename, delete, compress with accurate progress bars, ETAs, cancellation. Optimized for data safety, speed, and transparency.
• Advanced operations: Queue ops, background them, pause/resume, browse op log, roll back ops, even days later.
• Multi-rename: With patterns, counters, search and replace, live preview, Undo.
• Archives: Browse zip, tar, and 7z files like folders, and create or extract them.
• Speed: Lists 50,000 files near-instantly, the built-in viewer opens a 10 GB file in 1 sec, with search!
• Accessibility: Follows macOS accessibility settings. VoiceOver, WCAG 2.2 AA and APCA-verified contrasts in dark+light modes, and everything works with the keyboard.
• Localization: Translated into 15 languages.

Extra features:

• Phones: Android phones, Kindles, and cameras over MTP and PTP, up to 4x faster than Android File Transfer. Also ADB over USB, and iPhones natively.
• SMB: Network drives over a custom SMB implementation, 4–200x faster than the macOS client. Copies within a share happen on the server. For small files and listing dirs, it's waay faster than Finder!
• More servers: SFTP, WebDAV (Nextcloud and others), and S3 (AWS, R2, B2, and more), with cost estimates for S3 transfers.
• Git: Browse Git history, branches, worktrees, and stashes like normal folders.
• Cloud: Supports "Copy Dropbox link", "Share with Google Drive", etc.
• Indexing: (Optional) Keeps a fully local index of your disk for live folder sizes and near-instant search.

AI features (optional, off by default, can stay 100% local with a built-in LLM):

• Models: The default model runs on your Mac. Or bring your own OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, etc. key, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint (like your ollama server).
• Chat: "Why is my Downloads folder so big?", "Summarize these three docs"
• Natural-language search: "Find my tax report from last year" just works.
• Smart selection: "Select all screenshots in this folder"
• Image indexing: "Find photos where a dog looks into the camera"
• Renaming and organizing: "Rename these screenshots based on their content", "Clean up my Downloads folder". The agent never actually changes stuff: it only suggests, you approve or reject, and you can roll back later.
• Proactive suggestions: "How about moving that vet invoice to your donkey's medical papers?"
• With AI off, Cmdr is a complete Total Commander-style file manager!