Files as cards, with a real preview
A document's first page, the photo, a video's frame, a slide. Pick Small, Medium or Large with ⌘+ and ⌘−.
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Meet your new Finder.
Messy Downloads, a full disk, project files everywhere. FileOS fixes all three, in one beautiful Mac app.
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Six things FileOS fixes
Smart Downloads
Downloads sorted in one click
Loose files into folders by kind, with a preview first
Smart Clean
Space back, safely
Nine suggestions, each says why, with Undo
Workspaces
Every project on one page
Folders from your Mac, the cloud and drives. Nothing moves
Dual pane
Two folders side by side
Copy or move across with one key
For developers
Git, terminal and editor, one key away
Branch and changes in the path bar
Design
See files before you open them
Real previews, glass folders with sizes
Smart Downloads
Your Downloads, sorted in one click.
Invoices, installers, screenshots and a video you forgot about, all in one pile.
Tidy moves every loose file into a folder for its kind. You see the plan before anything moves, and Undo puts it all back.
- Want a look first? Group by kind or date added: each kind becomes a folder in its own color, and nothing moves on disk.
- See what takes the space, kind by kind.
- Spots installers for apps you already have, likely duplicates, and files untouched for 90 days.
- Leaves files that are still downloading alone.
Smart Clean
Get gigabytes back, without the guesswork.
“Your disk is almost full.” Then twenty minutes in System Settings, guessing what's safe to delete.
FileOS shows how full your Mac is, then nine suggestions sorted into Safe to clear and Your call. Each one says why.
- Safe to clear comes ticked: developer caches, duplicates (the copy you opened last is kept), installers for apps you have, and Mail's copies of attachments you opened.
- Your call starts unticked: big files, apps you haven't opened in 6 months, old screen recordings, old downloads, leftovers of deleted apps.
- Everything goes to the Trash first, and Undo brings it back. Empty Trash always asks.
Workspaces
Every project in one place, wherever its files live.
A workspace gathers folders and files from anywhere on your Mac onto one page. Nothing is copied or moved.
Bank statements in Downloads, receipts in iCloud Drive, payslips in Documents, last year's return on a backup drive. Now they're on one page, and nothing moved.
⌃1–⌃9Open a workspace⌥⌘NNew workspace
Dual pane
Two folders. One key between them.
Sorting downloads into a project, or copying photos to a drive, shouldn't mean dragging two Finder windows into place.
⌘D splits the window in two. F5 copies the selection to the other side, F6 moves it.
- Drag across to move, hold ⌥ to copy
- Long copies queue up, with progress and Cancel
- A name clash asks: keep both, replace or skip
- Both panes come back after a relaunch
For developers
Your projects, one key from your tools.
No more cd into a project just to type code ..
FileOS spots your git projects and works with the terminal and editor you already use.
- Git at a glance: the branch and uncommitted changes in the path bar. Read-only: it never fetches, pulls or changes anything.
- Type it in the path bar:
code .,cursor .,xed .,zed,warp,terminal - Caches, cleared safely: Xcode DerivedData, device support, Simulator caches, npm, Homebrew, pip, Yarn and CocoaPods, from a strict list.
node_modulesin projects you haven't touched for 6 months is shown, never ticked.
Open in Terminal⌥⇧⌘T
The folder you're in, in your terminal. From the toolbar, a right-click or the keyboard.
Open in your editor⌥⇧⌘E
Pick your editor once in Settings, then open any folder in it.
Works with Terminal, iTerm, Warp and Ghostty; VS Code, Cursor, Zed, Xcode, Sublime Text, Nova, BBEdit and JetBrains IDEs, whichever you have installed.
Opens in whichever of these you have installed.
Design
Find the right file by sight.
Five PDFs called Invoice-final. Which one?
Every file shows a real preview: a document's first page, the photo, a video's frame, a slide. Folders show their size and item count before you open them. Native macOS, built in SwiftUI.
Glass folders
Each shows its size and how many items it holds, with a symbol for what's inside.
A folder at a glance
Select a folder and the preview pane shows where it lives and what's inside, two levels deep.
Finder, or FileOS?
Finder is fine for finding a file. Here's what it leaves to you.
| Task |  FileOS | Finder |
|---|---|---|
| Two folders side by side | Dual pane with ⌘D; F5 copies, F6 moves | Two windows, arranged by hand |
| Moving files by keyboard | ⌘X and ⌘V, as with text | Copy, then ⌥⌘V to move |
| A project spread across places | One workspace page; nothing is moved | Tags, or a window for each folder |
| Freeing up space | Smart Clean: nine suggestions, with Undo | In System Settings, away from your files |
| A messy Downloads folder | Tidy moves files into folders, with a preview first | Sort and group; moving is up to you |
| Folder sizes | On every folder, worked out in the background | Off by default, in list view only |
| Git projects | Branch and uncommitted changes in the path bar | Nothing shown |
| Opening a folder in Terminal or an editor | One shortcut for your terminal and one for your editor | A Services item for Terminal |
Compared with Finder in macOS 27. FileOS opens the same folders, so you can keep using both. FileOS is not made by or affiliated with Apple.
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Works with the keyboard too.
Everything has a shortcut. The everyday ones, like ⌘C, ⌘V, ⌘[ and ⌘⌫, are the ones you already know.
⌘D
Split into two panes
⌘L
Type a path, Tab to complete
F5F6
Copy or move to the other pane
⌥⌘T
Tidy this folder
⌘Z
Undo the last file action
⌃1
Open your first workspace
Space
Quick Look
⌥⇧⌘T
Open the folder in Terminal
Plus everything you use every day.
- Tidy Downloads into folders, with a preview and Undo
- Group a folder by kind or date added
- Copy, cut and paste that works with Finder
- Rename in place with Return
- What takes the space in any folder
- Folder symbols from what they hold
- A sidebar you arrange
- Optional Full Disk Access, set up in one step
- Quick Look with Space
- Live refresh when a folder changes
- Small, Medium or Large icons
- Hidden files with ⇧⌘.
Nothing moves without a preview.
Tidy and Smart Clean show exactly what will happen before anything changes.
Everything can be undone.
Moves, copies, renames and Move to Trash all undo with ⌘Z. Empty Trash always asks first.
Your files stay on your Mac.
FileOS works with your folders right on your Mac. It never uploads your files or their names.
Hi, I'm Ankur. I'm building FileOS on my own because Finder kept slowing me down: a Downloads folder I never had time to sort, a “disk almost full” warning with no idea what was safe to delete, and every project scattered across folders, the cloud and a drive. So I'm making the file manager I wanted. Everything on this page is in the app today.
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Soon. Everyone on the waitlist gets an email on launch day with the download link and their $5.99 price.
Everyone who joins the waitlist before launch. At launch, FileOS is $8.99.
No. You pay once.
Use it instead of Finder or next to it. It opens the same folders, and copy and paste works between the two.
Yes. They're in the sidebar, as in Finder, and you can add their folders to a workspace.
Any Mac with macOS 15 Sequoia or later.
No, it's optional. Switch it on once and FileOS opens every folder, as Finder does. Without it, macOS asks the first time FileOS opens Downloads, Documents or the Desktop.
No. FileOS works with your folders on your Mac. It never uploads your files or their names.
Not without you seeing it. Each suggestion says why it's there. Only Safe-to-clear items come ticked; big files, apps and anything else that's your call start unticked. Everything goes to the Trash first, and Undo brings it back.
Yes, within 7 days of buying.
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