The Best 51 Finder Alternatives

  • Path Finder icon

    Path Finder

    Path Finder is a standalone Finder replacement that takes the Finder's familiar interface and adds numerous powerful features and interface innovations to help anyone be more productive on Mac OS X.

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • Xfe icon

    Xfe

    Fast, light, and flexible file manager. Xfe only requires the FOX library to be fully functional. Plus, it can be launched from the command line in a fraction of second. Xfe can also efficiently complete terminal commands.

    Free Open Source Linux Xfce

  • Nimble Commander icon

    Nimble Commander

    Modern dual-pane file manager for MacOSX. Quick, efficient and keyboard-oriented.

    Freemium Mac OS X

  • Vifm icon

    Vifm

    Vifm is a ncurses based file manager with vi like keybindings. If you use vi, vifm gives you complete keyboard control over your files without having to learn a new set of commands.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • UltraExplorer icon

    UltraExplorer

    UltraExplorer is a Windows Explorer replacement that will change the way you think about file management. Other Explorer replacement applications duplicate the same old paradigm introduced by Microsoft in Windows 95.

    Free Windows

    Tree view Miller columns
  • HoudahSpot icon

    HoudahSpot

    HoudahSpot is an advanced file search tool for Mac. Use HoudahSpot to locate hard-to-find files and keep frequently used files within reach. HoudahSpot builds upon Spotlight, which comes preinstalled with OS X.

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • Raskin icon

    Raskin

    Inspired by Jef Raskin, our zoomable user interface shows you all the stuff on your computer on a single surface. Using zoom and pan to view, arrange and open documents feels so right.

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • Caja icon

    Caja

    Caja is a fork of Nautilus from GNOME 2 and is native to the MATE Desktop Environment. It is a file manager like the Windows Explorer (not to confuse with Internet Explorer/Microsoft Edge), but for Unix/BSD and Linux. http://www .

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

    Support for WebDAV Dual pane support
  • Liquifile icon

    Liquifile

    An innovative visual file browser that makes huge amounts of data (be it music, video or documents) easily browsable and searchable. It does this by plotting data in 2D and other usability simplifications.

    Free Mac OS X

  • qtFM icon

    qtFM

    qtFM is a small, lightweight file manager for Linux desktops based on pure Qt and works great with minimal desktop environments like Openbox.

    Free Open Source Linux

    Tabbed interface Lightweight
  • Moroshka icon

    Moroshka

    Moroshka File Manager is the classic two windows file manager focused on elegant user interface, usability and sets of unique features: - Files are presented in views, may be quickly sorted and filtered.

    Free Mac OS X

  • Files-finder edition icon

    Files-finder edition

    If you have to name one app which you miss most on your iPad, what would that be? Well, if you use and love your iPad as much as we do, then it ought to be “Explorer” for Windows users and “Finder” for the ones who are coming from Mac...

    Commercial iPad

  • JumpFm icon

    JumpFm

    JumpFm is a minimalistic dual panel file manager (currently released only for Windows, Mac, and Linux) that lets you navigate your file system very efficiently. Mac releases can be found at https://github .

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

    Minimalistic Dual pane support Windows like
  • Transmit iOS icon

    Transmit iOS

    If you're a pretty serious nerd like us, you probably have access to an FTP, SFTP, WebDAV or Amazon S3 server that you use for, say, web serving, group collaboration, as a personal cloud storage service, or who knows what.

    Commercial iPhone iPad

    Dual pane support Support for SFTP SSH