What it is
QGExplorer is a macOS file manager built around the patterns power users already know from File Explorer and Linux file managers. If you've ever felt that managing files on macOS asks you to give up habits you spent years building, this is for you.
It's fast, free of clutter, has no telemetry, no popups, no upsells, and intentionally no network access. What's on your disk stays on your disk.
Familiar from day one
- Editable path bar with autocomplete — type or paste a path, press Enter
- Detailed list view with sortable, resizable columns (Name, Size, Modified, Created, Kind)
- Sidebar that expands like a real tree — click to drill in, not magic shortcuts
- Tabs with shared layout and full keyboard navigation
- Right-click context menus with the operations you'd expect
- List, table and icon views with adjustable density; Spaces — your own named groups of folder links
A preview pane that actually previews
- Images with full EXIF / IPTC / GPS, two zoom modes, prev/next between siblings
- Text and source files in monospace; PDF with metadata
- Audio and video with a built-in player and playlist queue
- Browse inside ZIP, TAR, 7z, RAR and more — search contents and extract single entries without unpacking the whole archive
Quick actions & filters
- Rotate and convert images while preserving every metadata field
- Create PDF from images; remove background using Vision; open in Markup
- Compress with options: format, level, optional password — password-protected ZIP that actually encrypts
- Type, tag and date filters; ⌘T for an instant "last 24 hours" view