ForkLift

I only got to use v3 because I think they stopped supporting Mojave afterwards and I refused to move to Catalina and later, but it was on that version an almost replacement for Finder, you can even set it up as the default file manager. It's so easy to use the manual was a single page and it covered pretty much anything you'd ever need. It also has the same shortcuts so if you're keyboard driven, you won't skip a beat.

The regex renaming feature is awesome, the search is confusing but still good, better than the Finder which needs the target pre-indexed and can't search by filename in the same directory. Those aren't issues you have in ForkLift.

It wasn't perfect though, you still need Finder for a thing or two--these are usually tasks tag will require dragging/dropping something. If a certain set of conditions were met, connecting to SMB shares would mean your system would freeze for several minutes at a time. It's a little resource-heavy too. It had a few bugs, I don't think they're relevant anymore.

If you were able to stomach modern macOS, give this a shot, it's worth it. I haven't used the current Finder but I can assure you v3 ForkLift is better than it, let alone v5.

Even though ForkLift is currently in its version 5+, it's still very buggy.

Since I bought it, I've had issues with Sync (which was one of the main reasons to acquire it), manually copying files to the cloud (Drive for example), and other minor annoying things like an app opening the location of a file but ForkLift only opening in the default directory.

Upon contacting with support, several times, they told me (someone named Bam) those issues were known and that I should change the app's settings to only 2 simultaneous file transfers which is like having a snail moving files:

And still, the Sync feature of the app won't work.

Customer support on itself was quick to respond, but not very amicable or informative.

If ForkLift were what they advertise on their website, it'd be a great app. Sadly it's not. It has the clear signs of an application still not ready for the market.

I regret buying ForkLift.

[Edited by Cifra, December 14]