Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD




Freename is described as 'When you use Freename to rename a bunch of files, it will send a text file with all filenames to your text editor. At that point, you can use all available tools of your text editor to change the filenames into whatever you want them to be' and is a File Renamer in the file management category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Freename for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Freename alternative is Bulk Rename Utility. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Bulk Rename Utility or Ant Renamer. Other great apps like Freename are ReNamer, Rename Master, KRename and Simplest File Renamer.




Massren is a command line tool that can be used to rename multiple files using your own text editor. Multiple-rename tools are usually difficult to use from the command line since any regular expression needs to be escaped, and each tool uses its own syntax and flavor of regex.

File Renamer is a bulk renaming tool on Mac to rename your thousands of files in few clicks with more than 40 possible renaming rules. Easy to use and powerful user interface with built in preview to see new names before you apply changes.

Rapid File Renamer enables you to rename large number of files based on specified renaming rules. You can add, remove or replace text in the file name, insert counters and dates, and also change the letter case.


Simple Builtin Renamers is a batch renamer. It is a plugin of the Thunar file manager included by default.

Quick File Rename allows you to batch rename files, folders, tag mp3s, audio files, photos, images and more. Rename using a powerful rules engine to get names any way you want! Recognises meta data including Exif, IPTC, XMP, Windows File Properties and many more.

Name Dropper makes multiple file renaming easy by allowing text from documents or browsers to be dragged onto files for automatic rename.

MultiFileRename is a program that can easily rename multiple files within the same directory. And repeat the same procedure(s) on different directories and at a later time.

Monitor folders for files and auto rename(Have program rename images when downloaded). Undo, Save settings, Imageview, Drag-drop, and more. File Management made easy. Very good for those pesky PDFs from customer firms that need cleaning.




Rename It is an easy-to-use batch file* renaming tool that saves you time and energy.



