Free & open source · macOS · Windows · Linux

Two panels.
Every file, at your fingertips.

A modern, keyboard-first file manager in the spirit of Total Commander. Lock your favourite folders into tabs, open zip, 7z and tar archives like folders, work on servers and cloud storage side by side with your disk, and keep both hands on the keyboard.

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ShinyCommander showing two panels with coloured folder tabs, breadcrumbs and marked files

Made for moving fast

Everything a power user reaches for

Built with .NET MAUI and Shiny Controls - a native app on all three desktops, from one code base.

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Folder tabs, your way

Tabs sit on top of each panel like real folder tabs, with a badge counting what you've marked. Right-click one to rename it, give it a colour and an icon.

  • Lock a tab and it stays on its folder - anywhere else opens in a new tab
  • Home, Desktop, Documents, Downloads and cloud folders start as locked tabs
  • Tabs, locks, names and colours come back on the next launch
The tab menu with lock, rename, colour swatches and icons
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Breadcrumbs that drop down

The path is a breadcrumb trail. Click a crumb to jump there, or its chevron to see the folders inside - and pick one without leaving the keyboard row.

  • The folder you're in is always in view, however deep
  • Prefer typing? The pencil turns it back into a path box
A breadcrumb dropdown listing the folders inside src
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Archives that act like folders

Press Enter on an archive and work inside it like any folder: copy in and out, move, rename, delete, make folders - or press F4 to edit a file and save it straight back in.

zip7ztartar.gztar.bz2tar.zst rartar.xz

read & write browse & copy out

  • Pack files or whole folders - everything under them - into any writable format
  • Copy straight from one archive into another
A 7z archive open in the right panel like a folder
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Servers and cloud storage, in a panel

Open an SFTP server, a WebDAV share or an S3 bucket and it works like any folder: copy up and down with F5, move, rename, delete, make folders - or press F4 to edit a file and every save goes straight back to the server.

SFTPFTPFTPSWebDAVAmazon S3Azure BlobSMB shares
  • Buckets and containers are folders - make one to create it, delete one to remove it
  • S3-compatible services too: MinIO, Cloudflare R2, Wasabi, Backblaze B2
  • Moves on the same server are instant renames - nothing comes down and goes back up
  • Saved connections sit in the drive bar beside your disks
A website folder on the left and its S3 bucket open in the right panel
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Connect in a keystroke

Press ⌘K - or CtrlK on Windows and Linux - for your saved connections and the file servers announcing themselves on your network.

  • Network shares found by Bonjour mount the way your OS does it, then open like any drive
  • Passwords live in your keychain - macOS Keychain, Windows Credential Manager or the Linux Secret Service - never in a settings file
  • SSH keys, host keys checked on every connect, and a Test button before you save
The Connections page with saved servers and storage accounts beside the servers found on the network

Quick view, side by side

Turn the other panel into a live preview of whatever is under the cursor - text, images and beautifully rendered Markdown, inside archives too.

  • The lister (F3) adds hex view and walks the folder with N / P
  • Thumbnails, details and a folder tree, chosen per panel
Quick view rendering a Markdown file in the other panel

And so much more

The details that make it yours

Dual panels

Side by side or stacked, with drive chips, a free-space meter, sortable columns and live refresh.

Background jobs

Copy, move, delete, pack and unpack keep running while you work - uploads and downloads too - with progress, Stop and Go To.

Find files

Total Commander masks like *.cs | bin/, content search, size filters and go-to-file.

Multi-rename

Placeholders, counters, regex search & replace and a live preview - with undo, even inside archives.

Synchronize folders

Compare trees by date, size or content and copy what's different, in either direction.

Command line

Type anywhere: cd moves the panel, anything else runs in your shell with output in a console.

Built-in editor

Edit with F4 - Markdown gets a live preview - or hand files to your favourite editor.

Your keys stay yours

Server passwords and storage keys go to the OS keychain. Forget one any time from its connection.

Finds your network

NAS boxes, Macs and servers that announce themselves show up ready to connect - SMB, SFTP, WebDAV and FTP.

Edit anywhere

F4 on a file in an archive or on a server edits a copy - and every save is written back where it came from.

Light & dark

Follows your system, or pick a theme. Every icon and colour is tuned for both.

Speaks your language

English, French and Spanish, following your system or chosen in Settings.

Keyboard first

The keys you already know

The full Total Commander keymap, on every platform. ⌘ on a Mac, Ctrl everywhere else - and F1 shows them all.

F3View
F4Edit
F5Copy
F6Move
F7New folder
F8Delete
AltF5Pack
AltF9Unpack
AltF7Find files
⌘TNew tab
CtrlTabNext tab
⌘MMulti-rename
CtrlQQuick view
⌘JJobs
⌘DHotlist
⌘KConnect
⌘BBranch view
⌘FQuick filter
⌘RReread
TabOther panel

Get ShinyCommander

Free and open source. Pick your desktop.

macOS Apple silicon · signed & notarized · updates itself Windows Installer for x64 and Arm64 Linux .deb and .rpm for x64 and Arm64

Every release, with checksums, is on GitHub.