Flies

Flies for Mac: A file manager that keeps up with you.

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

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

0.2.11alpha · Apple Silicon · free while in alpha

One-time step while Flies is in alpha: paste xattr -cr /Applications/Flies.app in Terminal, then open Flies.

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

Everything you do with files,
in one window

Previews

View anything without leaving the folder.

Hit Space to see 3D models, PDFs, camera raws, waveforms and code in 100+ languages, all in a resizable panel.

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

The terminal

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 Flies terminal running fastfetch in the current folder

Usage Map

Your disk is full. Here's why.

A treemap of any folder, sized by disk usage. Click a block to drill in until you're looking at the culprit.

Flies Usage Map: a treemap of the Applications folder, sized by disk usage

Tabs, panes and workspaces

Two panes. Every tab. One click back.

Split into two panes, drag tabs between them, and save the whole layout as a workspace you can reopen in one click.

Flies split into two panes with their own tabs, beside a saved Coffee Research workspace in the sidebar

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.

Make it yours

Yours, down to the folder.

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

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

Just launch it

Your other apps already know where Flies lives. Type flies ., or let Reveal in Finder land here.

Changelog

The latest release.

0.2.11alpha
  • Fixed the emoji picker for tags, folders, workspaces, and cloud remotes coming up empty for new users
  • Local PDFs now open at any size, and a cloud PDF too large to preview offers to download first
  • Terminal tabs now take their name from the shell's title, and can be renamed from their right-click menu
  • Flies now asks before a workspace or a new split pane closes a terminal that is still running
Every release

Point it at your messiest folder.

Download Flies — free

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

Apple Silicon · alpha