Flies
Photos & Videos Camera, lens and exposure on every thumbnail 3D models Preview and spin models without leaving the folder Music Waveforms and a player in every folder Developer Tools A terminal, commit graphs and code in 100+ languages Send files From any device, with no cables or accounts

Flies for Mac: You need a file manager that keeps up with you.

Preview, edit, run and sync without ever leaving the folder you're in.
Free license for early beta testers.

Download for Mac

Flies is a Mac app. Open this page on your Mac to download it.

3.0.1beta · Apple Silicon

Flies running on a MacBook, showing the 3D model viewer and a music player panel

Go beyond file names. Flies speaks waveform, source code, mesh, commit graph, exposure, terminal and cloud.

Everything you do with files,
in one window

View anything without leaving the folder.

New ways to see and work with your files. Hit Space to see 3D models, PDFs, camera raws, waveforms and code in 100+ languages, all in a resizable panel.

Previews
Flies showing a photo folder as a grid gallery, with camera, lens and exposure on each thumbnail

Save your setup. Reopen it in one click.

Save your open tabs and split panes as a workspace, give it a name and an emoji, and it is here for whenever you need it.

Workspaces
A saved Coffee Research workspace in the Flies sidebar, reopened as two panes with their own tabs

A terminal in this folder, one shortcut away.

⌘ ` opens one where you're standing. Paths in its output are ⌘-clickable, files can be dropped straight in, and it goes full screen when you need the room.

The terminal
The Flies terminal running fastfetch in the current folder

And the everyday, done properly.

Send files to any device.

Pick a phone, tablet or laptop on your network and send, with no cables or accounts. Scan the QR code to connect a phone.

Also works in the browser
File Sharing
Flies with File Sharing open in a split pane, showing a QR code to scan with a phone beside a folder of photos

Keyboard

Everything has a shortcut.

Type to jump to a file, move around with the arrow keys, and rebind any key to match the muscle memory you already have.

Cloud drives

Your cloud, right next to your files.

Browse, preview and copy files on your cloud drives like they were local. SFTP, SMB and WebDAV too.

  • Google Drive
  • Dropbox
  • Microsoft OneDrive
  • Box
  • MEGA
  • +16

Yours, down to the folder.

Choose a theme and give any folder an emoji you'll spot instantly.

Make it yours
Flies in the Rose theme, showing folders with custom emoji icons and the emoji picker open

Just launch it

Keep using your other apps the way you already do. Reveal in Finder opens here, and so does flies . in Terminal.

Changelog

The latest release.

3.0.1beta
  • Edit images in place with crop, straighten, rotate and flip
  • Trim videos without leaving Flies
  • CSV and TSV files open as an editable table
  • Markdown previews have a toggle between reading width and full width
Every release

Point it at your messiest folder.

Download for Mac

Flies is a Mac app. Open this page on your Mac to download it.

Apple Silicon · free beta licence, requested in the app

One step before you open Flies

While Flies is in beta, paste this in Terminal, then open Flies.

xattr -cr /Applications/Flies.app