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File-management projects on GitHub

File managers and tools for organizing and navigating files.

As of , the most-starred File-management projects on GitHub are waveterm (22.5K stars), nerdtree (20.1K stars) and seafile (15.3K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 13 File-management repositories with 105.8K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 18 was dsh-ops, with +245 stars in a day.

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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 18

+245

dsh-ops

T-Auto/dsh-ops · ★ 3.1K

dsh-ops is a Windows plugin for the DSH AI-assistant app that bundles a standalone bash, PowerShell 7, and faster Rust-based file tools so the AI agent stops fighting the native PowerShell shell, which cuts wasted tokens, time, and model attention.

+58

DeskBox

Tianyu199509/DeskBox · ★ 7.1K

DeskBox is a free, open-source Windows desktop organizer that adds native-feeling WinUI 3 widgets backed by real folders, plus extras like todos, quick notes, search, weather, and music controls.

+21

strata

lgse/strata · ★ 1.4K

Strata is a fast, keyboard-first file manager for modern Linux desktops, built around spatial Miller-column navigation plus Icons and List views, with fuzzy search and rich file previews.

+16

MacPacker

sarensw/MacPacker · ★ 1.3K

MacPacker is a free, open source archive manager for macOS that lets you browse archives like folders, preview files without extracting, and drag out only the files you need. It's meant as a native 7-Zip replacement for the Mac.

The all-time top

13 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · wavetermdev/waveterm

    waveterm

    Wave is an open-source, AI-integrated terminal for macOS, Linux, and Windows. It bundles a context-aware AI assistant, durable SSH sessions, and a block-based workspace with editors and file previews.

    22.5K
  2. #2 · preservim/nerdtree

    nerdtree

    NERDTree is a file system explorer plugin for Vim: it shows your directories as a tree inside the editor, so you can browse, open files, and run basic file operations without leaving Vim.

    20.1K
  3. #3 · haiwen/seafile

    seafile

    Seafile is an open source cloud storage system focused on privacy protection and teamwork, organizing files into 'libraries' that can be synced, shared, and optionally encrypted, plus adding metadata, wikis, and collaborative editing on top.

    15.3K
  1. 4

    Pearcleaner

    14.9Kalienator88/Pearcleaner · Swift

    Pearcleaner is a free, source-available Mac app cleaner that uninstalls apps along with their leftover files, inspired by AppCleaner and Sun Knudsen's app-cleaner script.

  2. 5

    magentic-ui

    10.1Kmicrosoft/magentic-ui · Python

    MagenticLite is a free, open-source agent application from Microsoft AI Frontiers that automates real work — web research, form filling, file management — across the browser and your local file system, built to run on small models.

  3. 6

    capsule-fs

    8.4Kunicity-aos/capsule-fs · Rust

    capsule-fs is a filesystem toolkit for AI agents inside Unicity AOS (also called Astrid OS): it gives agents readfile, writefile, replaceinfile, listdirectory, grepsearch, createdirectory, deletefile and movefile tools, all mediated by the OS kernel's VFS airlock.

  4. 7

    DeskBox

    7.1KTianyu199509/DeskBox · C#

    DeskBox is a free, open-source Windows desktop organizer that adds native-feeling WinUI 3 widgets backed by real folders, plus extras like todos, quick notes, search, weather, and music controls.

  5. 8

    dsh-ops

    3.1KT-Auto/dsh-ops · JavaScript

    dsh-ops is a Windows plugin for the DSH AI-assistant app that bundles a standalone bash, PowerShell 7, and faster Rust-based file tools so the AI agent stops fighting the native PowerShell shell, which cuts wasted tokens, time, and model attention.

  6. 9

    strata

    1.4Klgse/strata · Rust

    Strata is a fast, keyboard-first file manager for modern Linux desktops, built around spatial Miller-column navigation plus Icons and List views, with fuzzy search and rich file previews.

  7. 10

    MacPacker

    1.3Ksarensw/MacPacker · Swift

    MacPacker is a free, open source archive manager for macOS that lets you browse archives like folders, preview files without extracting, and drag out only the files you need. It's meant as a native 7-Zip replacement for the Mac.

  8. 11

    flea

    824thisisgm/flea · QML

    Flea is a fast, keyboard-first GUI file manager built specifically for Omarchy, pairing a Rust backend with a Quickshell (QML) interface that follows your Omarchy theme.

  9. 12

    dsh-at-file

    526FSMargoo/dsh-at-file · JavaScript

    dsh-at-file is a DeepSeek Harness (DSH) plugin that adds Codex-style @file mentions to the web composer: type @ to search the current workspace and insert a file or directory path into your prompt.

  10. 13

    OpenYoink

    236MuQY1818/OpenYoink · Swift

    OpenYoink is a free, open-source macOS utility that lets you drag files, images, text, and links onto a temporary shelf at the screen edge or into the Mac's Dynamic Island, then drag them out again once you've switched to the target window. It's built with SwiftUI + AppKit and lives in the menu bar without a Dock icon.

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