Features

Everything DriveManager does

A dual-pane file manager for macOS with your cloud drives and servers in the same panels, and the tools for bulk file work, previews and development built in.

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The main window: two panels, each with its own folder, tabs and the function-key bar.

By task

Each page explains one part of DriveManager in depth, with real screenshots, steps and its limits.

Compared with what you use today

Fair comparisons with Finder and with Total Commander on Windows: what is the same, what is different, and what DriveManager doesn’t do.

All features

What DriveManager does today, by area. Everything listed is in the app now; plans are kept apart below.

Panels and navigation

  • Two panels, each with its own source
  • Tabs: lockable, draggable between panels, restored on launch
  • Back/forward history, breadcrumb path, Go to Folder
  • List, Brief and Thumbnails views, grouping by kind, date, size, extension
  • Side by side, stacked or single panel
  • Commander or Finder style per panel
  • Browse inside packages (.app, .xcodeproj…)

Workspaces and quick access

  • Named workspaces of both panels’ tabs
  • Favorites with groups and keyed shortcuts
  • Linked browsing of both panels
  • Type-to-jump and quick filter
  • Quick View pane and system Quick Look
  • Folder sizes in the background, Get Info for one item, several or a whole folder

Keyboard

  • Full keyboard control with the Total Commander layout
  • Command palette
  • Every shortcut rebindable, in the viewers and the Sync window too
  • Key map presets: Total Commander, Midnight Commander, Finder, ForkLift
  • Key maps exported and imported as a file
  • Searchable key list (F1)
  • Command line under the panels (⌥Space)

File operations

  • Copy, move, duplicate, rename, new folder, trash and delete between any two sources
  • Background jobs, queue, Activity Log, notifications
  • Speed limits and error rules
  • Drag and drop with Finder and other apps
  • Clipboard across sources
  • New files from templates, new Google Docs, Sheets and Slides

Advanced operations

  • Multi-Rename with rules, live preview, presets and Undo
  • Checksums CRC32, MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-512, checksum files verified, verify after copy
  • Folder compare and one-way or two-way sync with profiles
  • File compare: text diff, hex side by side, image compare
  • Change Permissions: modes, group, special bits and file flags, for a whole folder tree too

Search and editing

  • Search by name, content, kind, size and date
  • Saved searches and history
  • Search across all accounts at once
  • Right-click menu with Open With
  • External editor (F4), cloud files uploaded on save
  • Finder tags and Spotlight comments in one sheet
  • Share and Copy Link, where the service supports it

Cloud

  • Google Drive: several accounts, My Drive, Shared with me, shared drives, Recent, Starred, Trash, sharing, auto-refresh
  • Dropbox: personal and team, restore deleted files, shared links, live refresh
  • OneDrive: personal and work or school, SharePoint libraries, adding libraries by site search, Copy Link and Sharing, resumable uploads
  • Simultaneous transfers set per account
  • ICloud Drive and File Provider status, Download Now and Remove Download

Servers

  • WebDAV with chunked uploads and connection options
  • SFTP with password, key or verification codes, host-key pinning, jump hosts, hosts imported from ~/.ssh/config, server-side copy where the server supports it
  • FTP and FTPS
  • S3-compatible storage: parallel multipart uploads and downloads, folder rename and move, temporary credentials, assume role, AWS SSO and config profiles, cleanup of incomplete uploads
  • OpenStack Swift and Rackspace Cloud Files
  • Modification dates kept on upload to S3, SFTP and FTP
  • Open server folders refresh by themselves
  • 1 to 8 simultaneous transfers per connection
  • SMB, AFP and NFS through Connect to Server

Archives

  • Browse as folders: ZIP, tar (gz, bz2, xz, zstd…), 7z (encrypted too), RAR, ISO, cpio, XAR, CAB, LHA, multi-volume sets
  • Create ZIPs with compression levels and AES-256
  • Edit ZIPs in place
  • Extract any archive
  • Browse large remote ZIPs without downloading them whole

Viewers

  • Text and hex with syntax colouring
  • JSON, XML and YAML
  • PDF
  • Images
  • SVG
  • Video
  • Audio
  • SID tunes
  • Markdown
  • HTML
  • E-books
  • Google Docs, Sheets, Slides
  • CSV and TSV
  • Manual pages
  • App bundles
  • Binaries
  • Property lists
  • Certificate files
  • SQLite
  • Archives
  • Disk images
  • Installer packages
  • Torrent files
  • Your own script viewers in Lua, JavaScript or Python

Developer and power tools

  • Git status, branches, stage, commit, diff, history
  • Fetch, pull, push, clone
  • Your own scripts as Tools
  • App Deleter: uninstall, reset an app, find leftovers of removed apps
  • Open in Terminal
  • Command line handing commands to Terminal or iTerm2
  • Manual pages with F1, and Search Manual Pages
  • Send to Transmission from the torrent viewer

AI panel (optional)

  • Your own Claude Code in place of the second panel, working in the active panel’s folder
  • @ file references and / commands
  • A status line with mode, model and usage
  • Off until you install Claude Code, sign in with your own Claude account and add the launcher script

Appearance and settings

  • Native macOS look, several themes, light, dark and Increase Contrast, three densities
  • One Settings window with search, every change applies at once
  • Settings backup and restore
  • English and Hungarian

Google Drive, Dropbox and OneDrive need a one-time setup with your own free registration; between different services the files travel through your Mac. What the setup involves

Coming next

Planned, not in the app yet — no dates promised:

More app languages: German, Italian, Croatian and French

Every command, one keystroke away

⇧⌘P: every command, recent folder and source, found by typing. Every shortcut can be changed in Settings.

Coming from another file manager? Switch the whole key map to Total Commander, Midnight Commander, Finder or ForkLift keys in one step, and take your own key map to another Mac as a file.

Coming soon to the Mac App Store.

€12.99 One-time purchase. No subscription. Every feature included.

Mac App Store prices vary by country. See prices · macOS 26 Tahoe or later, Mac with Apple silicon.

Watch the 33-second demo

DriveManager demo

Transcript
  1. 0:00 — the Studio Nova folder in the left panel, a backup folder in the right one
  2. 0:03 — in Invoices 2026, three invoices are marked with Space
  3. 0:06 — F5 opens “Copy 3 items”, from Studio Nova / Invoices 2026 to Nova Backup / 2026
  4. 0:09 — the copies appear in the right panel
  5. 0:15 — the Photos folder, then the Krk shoot as thumbnails
  6. 0:21 — F3 opens a photo in the viewer, with its Summary panel; → steps to the next ones
  7. 0:30 — ⇧⌘P opens the command palette; typing “sync” finds Synchronize Folders