Empiric Commander

Empiric Commander is a professional dual-pane file manager for macOS, iPadOS, and iPhone, inspired by the classic Norton Commander workflow and built 100% in SwiftUI with Swift 6.

Key capabilities:

• Dual-pane browsing with tabs, drag-and-drop transfers between panes, and full keyboard navigation
• Remote connections to SFTP, FTP, Amazon S3, and Azure Blob Storage with parallel background transfers
• Integrated terminal (SwiftTerm) on macOS with automatic directory syncing between the active pane and the shell
• On-device AI (Apple Intelligence): rename files by describing them in plain words, summarize text/code/config files in preview, and filter Disk Usage with plain-language queries - all on device, nothing uploaded (requires macOS 26 with Apple Intelligence)
• Universal Shelf for staging files across Mac, iPad, and iPhone, synced via iCloud (5 GB)
• Workspaces to save and restore your pane layouts and tabs
• Batch rename with regex patterns, sequential numbering, and date insertion
• Archive browsing (ZIP and more) without extracting
• Quick Look preview, live filtering, metadata search, Auto-Organize
• Native Apple frameworks only - no third-party dependencies
• Notarized by Apple, hardened runtime, Keychain-based credential storage

Single one-time purchase ($49.99) covers 1 Mac + 1 iPad + 1 iPhone, with every update inside that major version included and a free 7-day trial (no credit card).