Topics / #file-manager

File-manager projects on GitHub

Applications for browsing and managing files

As of , the most-starred File-manager projects on GitHub are PowerToys (139.4K stars), copyparty (47.1K stars) and Files (46K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 45 File-manager repositories with 788.6K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was disktree, with +77 stars in a day.

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+77

disktree

tobi/disktree · ★ 3K

disktree is a treemap visualizer for finding what is filling up your disk: it draws every directory as a nested mosaic sized by how much space it actually uses, lets you mark files or folders for removal, and keeps the free space of the whole volume in view the whole time.

+75

herdr-web-ui

devswha/herdr-web-ui · ★ 1.1K

It is a browser and phone client for herdr: it lets you open the agent sessions you already have running, chat with them, see a live terminal for each pane, and reply from anywhere.

+54

PowerToys

microsoft/PowerToys · ★ 139.4K

PowerToys is a collection of over 30 utilities from Microsoft that let you customize Windows and streamline everyday tasks, like a window manager, color picker, bulk file renamer, and more.

+33

strata

lgse/strata · ★ 1.3K

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.

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45 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · microsoft/PowerToys

    PowerToys

    PowerToys is a collection of over 30 utilities from Microsoft that let you customize Windows and streamline everyday tasks, like a window manager, color picker, bulk file renamer, and more.

    139.4K
  2. #2 · 9001/copyparty

    copyparty

    copyparty is a portable, single-file server that turns almost any device into a full-featured file server, supporting resumable uploads/downloads over HTTP(S), WebDAV, SFTP, FTP(S), TFTP and SMB, with a built-in media player, thumbnails and search.

    47.1K
  3. #3 · files-community/Files

    Files

    Files is a modern, open-source file manager for Windows that helps users organize their files and folders, featuring multitasking, file tags, and deep system integrations.

    46K
  1. 4

    yazi

    42.9Ksxyazi/yazi · Rust

    Yazi (means 'duck') is a blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, built on non-blocking async I/O for an efficient, user-friendly and customizable file management experience.

  2. 5

    spacedrive

    39.2Kspacedriveapp/spacedrive · Rust

    Spacedrive is a cross-platform file explorer and a cross-device data platform. It indexes files, emails, notes, and other sources, lets you search everything in one place, and syncs data across devices via peer-to-peer connections.

  3. 6

    CasaOS

    37.3KIceWhaleTech/CasaOS · Go

    CasaOS is an open-source personal cloud operating system that turns a small computer (ZimaBoard, NUC, Raspberry Pi, or an old PC) into a home server with a friendly web UI for files, apps, and devices.

  4. 7

    1Panel

    37.2K1Panel-dev/1Panel · Go

    1Panel is an open-source Linux server management panel and lightweight AI management platform: a web GUI that gives you one-stop control over servers, websites, apps and AI agents.

  5. 8

    filebrowser

    35.9Kfilebrowser/filebrowser · Go

    File Browser is a self-hosted file manager you point at a directory on your server, giving you a web interface to upload, delete, preview, and edit files inside it.

  6. 9

    WindTerm

    32.5KkingToolbox/WindTerm · C

    WindTerm is a free professional SSH/Telnet/Serial/Shell/Sftp client and terminal built for DevOps, combining remote connections, a local shell and file transfer in one application.

  7. 10

    cloudreve

    28.8Kcloudreve/cloudreve · Go

    Cloudreve is a self-hosted file management and sharing system: you run it on your own server and get a personal or team cloud drive that can store files across many storage providers.

  8. 11

    QuickLook

    25.4KQL-Win/QuickLook · C#

    QuickLook brings macOS's 'Quick Look' feature to Windows: select any file in File Explorer, press Space, and get an instant preview without opening a full application.

  9. 12

    OpenList

    25.1KOpenListTeam/OpenList · Go

    OpenList is a self-hosted file-listing and sharing server, built as a community-driven fork of AList, that lets you browse, preview, and share files from dozens of cloud storage providers through one unified web interface.

  10. 13

    superfile

    23.8Kyorukot/superfile · Go

    A pretty and modern terminal file manager — a keyboard-driven TUI app written in Go for browsing and managing files right from your shell.

  11. 14

    nnn

    22.1Kjarun/nnn · C

    nnn (n3) is a terminal file manager built for speed and low resource use. The binary is typically around 100KB, it usually needs less than 3.5MB of resident memory, and it runs fine even with 8 colors.

  12. 15

    awesome-tuis

    20.9Krothgar/awesome-tuis

    A community-maintained catalog of TUI applications — programs that run in your terminal and offer some level of interactivity — organized into themed sections.

  13. 16

    awesome-cli-apps

    20.5Kagarrharr/awesome-cli-apps · Shell

    A curated list of command line (CLI) apps, organized into categories like entertainment, development, productivity, utilities, security, and AI tools.

  14. 17

    nerdtree

    20.1Kpreservim/nerdtree · Vim Script

    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.

  15. 18

    ranger

    17.4Kranger/ranger · Python

    Ranger is a console file manager with VI key bindings — a minimalistic curses interface for browsing the directory hierarchy, with previews, tabs and bookmarks.

  16. 19

    NanaZip

    15.9KM2Team/NanaZip · C++

    An open source file archiver forked from the source code of 7-Zip, rebuilt for the modern Windows experience with a Fluent-style UI, MSIX packaging and extra codecs and hash algorithms.

  17. 20

    FileConverter

    15.4KTichau/FileConverter · C#

    File Converter is a Windows tool that lets you convert and compress files directly from the right-click context menu in Windows Explorer, without opening a separate app.

  18. 21

    EverythingToolbar

    14.9Ksrwi/EverythingToolbar · C#

    EverythingToolbar integrates the Everything search engine right into the Windows taskbar, letting you instantly search files and folders without opening a separate app.

  19. 22

    filestash

    14.8Kmickael-kerjean/filestash · Go

    Filestash is a storage-agnostic, Dropbox-like file manager that speaks nearly every storage protocol (S3, FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, SMB, NFS, Git, IPFS, Dropbox, Azure, SharePoint and more), so you get one file browser for all your backends.

  20. 23

    broot

    13.1KCanop/broot · Rust

    Broot is a terminal tool that gives you a compact, navigable overview of a directory tree, lets you fuzzy-search files and content, then cd, open, or manipulate what you find, replacing tree, ls, find, and cd for everyday navigation.

  21. 24

    daedalOS

    13.1KDustinBrett/daedalOS · JavaScript

    daedalOS is a full desktop environment that runs entirely in your browser, complete with a file explorer, draggable/resizable windows, a taskbar, a start menu, and dozens of built-in apps, emulators, and games.

  22. 25

    zfile

    10.9Kzfile-dev/zfile · Java

    ZFile is a self-hosted web program that lets you manage multiple cloud and local storage sources (S3, OneDrive, SharePoint, Google Drive, FTP, SFTP, etc.) through one unified file browser, with online preview and sharing links.

  23. 26

    filebrowser

    8.8Kgtsteffaniak/filebrowser · Go

    FileBrowser Quantum is a self-hosted web app that lets you browse, manage, preview, and edit your files through a browser, with a modern responsive UI.

  24. 27

    dockhand

    6.8KFinsys/dockhand · TypeScript

    Dockhand is a self-hosted web UI for managing Docker environments - containers, Compose stacks, images, and volumes - across local and remote hosts, with live monitoring, logs, and a built-in terminal.

  25. 28

    disktree

    3Ktobi/disktree · Rust

    disktree is a treemap visualizer for finding what is filling up your disk: it draws every directory as a nested mosaic sized by how much space it actually uses, lets you mark files or folders for removal, and keeps the free space of the whole volume in view the whole time.

  26. 29

    strata

    1.3Klgse/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.

  27. 30

    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.

  28. 31

    herdr-web-ui

    1.1Kdevswha/herdr-web-ui · TypeScript

    It is a browser and phone client for herdr: it lets you open the agent sessions you already have running, chat with them, see a live terminal for each pane, and reply from anywhere.

  29. 32

    3105

    901YangJiiii/3105 · Swift

    3105 is a native iOS app for browsing app-container (sandboxed) files, managing portable file patches, cleaning app caches, and installing PosterBoard wallpaper packages, without installing a persistent jailbreak.

  30. 33

    forel

    832lab421/forel · Swift

    Forel is an open-source, privacy-focused file automation app for macOS that watches folders and automatically moves, renames, tags, or labels files based on rules you define — it's built as a community alternative to the paid Hazel app.

  31. 34

    flea

    822thisisgm/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.

  32. 35

    herdrm

    761missuo/herdrm · C

    herdrm is a native macOS console app that sits on top of herdr, a background daemon that owns your coding agents' terminals, letting you see live status and attach to any agent or shell terminal across local and remote (SSH) devices from one sidebar.

  33. 36

    FinderSearch

    673zeusinsight/FinderSearch · Swift

    FinderSearch is a native macOS file browser with fast, fuzzy filename search, built with SwiftUI and AppKit and powered by the fsearch search engine. It lets you browse folders, preview files, and manage them in a familiar Finder-like interface.

  34. 37

    finder-menu

    456nikgrbn/finder-menu · Swift

    Finder Menu adds five right-click menu items that macOS Finder is missing: New File, Open Terminal Here, Open Folder With, Copy Path, and Go to Parent Folder.

  35. 38

    FilzaSlop

    4480xjohnnydev/FilzaSlop · Objective-C

    FilzaSlop is a fork of FilzaJailedDS that adds a sandbox escape exploit and app container access to the Filza file manager on iOS 18, iOS 26, and iOS 27 beta 1-4, plus a bundled PosterBoard Wallpaper Lab.

  36. 39

    skill-cabinet

    426subsy/skill-cabinet · JavaScript

    Skill Cabinet is a local catalog for AI agent skills installed on your machine. It scans drawers like .agents, .claude, .codex, .cursor, and Hermes profiles, lets you read each skill and its frontmatter, and can delete or quarantine skill folders from disk.

  37. 40

    vphone-web

    37434306/vphone-web · HTML

    It is a self-hosted web platform for running multiple virtual iPhones in the browser at once, with user accounts, RBAC, live screen streaming, touch input, IPA install, a root shell and a file browser, built on top of the vphone-cli engine using Apple's Virtualization.framework.

  38. 41

    android_everything

    299luli395/android_everything · Python

    Android Everything lets you search your Android phone's files from Windows with the speed and feel of the Everything search tool, using ADB to pull file metadata into a local SQLite FTS5 index.

  39. 42

    OpenYoink

    230MuQY1818/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.

  40. 43

    dsh-popout-sidebar

    208e2mcc/dsh-popout-sidebar · JavaScript

    A plugin for DeepSeek Harness (DSH) Web UI that adds a sidebar listing the agent's artifacts and a file tree, with multiple file preview types, and can pop out into a separate browser tab for viewing on another monitor.

  41. 44

    financial-intelligence-system

    171zhangzf1119/financial-intelligence-system · Java

    FinSight Enterprise Backend is a Spring Boot 3 backend for an enterprise intelligent management platform, covering RBAC, logging, monitoring, a file center, workflow approvals, in-app instant messaging, AI model chat and a RAG knowledge base.

  42. 45

    zxdesk

    140mindbox77/zxdesk · Assembly

    ZxDesk is a graphical desktop environment for the 48K ZX Spectrum, written entirely in Z80 assembly, with overlapping windows, pull-down menus, a file manager, a notepad, clock and calendar, all running natively on the machine.

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