Changelog

Every release, in order.

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

0.2.10alpha

  • Split pane behaviour can be configured, and has a right click context menu.
  • PDFs can now run their pages in different orientations and in continuous or single page mode for presentaions
  • Code blocks in a markdown preview now have a copy button

0.2.9alpha

  • Cloud remotes can now be hidden from the sidebar in Settings
  • The terminal can now go full screen
  • Photos and videos can now be tagged with T, deleted with D, and restored with U
  • Cloud remotes can now be tested before saving, and signed back in to without removing them
  • Copying a folder onto one with the same name now merges them instead of adding a second copy
  • Properties now shows a folder's total size

0.2.8alpha

  • Added a welcome screen with last session, pinned folders, and saved workspaces when no tabs are opened
  • The text editor now has find and go to line, soft wrap, and an indent setting read from the file itself, with a caret readout, word count, and line endings in the status bar
  • Images can now be optimized from the right-click menu or the viewer
  • Camera raws now open in the viewer at their full sensor resolution, with support for HEIF, TIFF, and JFIF

0.2.7alpha

  • Added tags, giving files a color or emoji dot in every view with optional syncing to Finder's tags
  • Tabs now have a right-click menu, for moving one to the other pane, swapping the two panes over, or closing the rest
What's new in Flies 0.2.7

0.2.6alpha

  • Added Workspaces to save tabs and panes in current session
  • Improved security and stability

0.2.5alpha

  • Added Cloud Storage, connecting Google Drive, Dropbox, S3, WebDAV, and 16 other providers
  • Photo and video previews can now go full-screen
  • The terminal can now switch to dark mode irrecpective of current theme

0.2.4alpha

  • Added batch rename, building a new name from details like the camera model or a track's artist and album
  • Added an Open With menu for picking which app a file opens in
  • The text editor now has multiple cursors, code folding, and a markdown formatting toolbar
  • Audio now plays from any view, and answers the keyboard's media keys
  • The photo viewer can now remove an image's background, powered by onboard Mac VisionKit
  • Password protected zips can now be extracted
What's new in Flies 0.2.4

0.2.3alpha

  • Tabs can now be dragged from one pane to the other
  • The terminal now takes files and images pasted or dropped into it
  • Paths in terminal output are now ⌘-clickable, opening in a new tab
  • PDFs and 3D models can now open in Flies
  • Every file now shows its real macOS icon instead of a generic glyph
  • Files can now be grouped by extension, not just kind
What's new in Flies 0.2.3

0.2.2alpha

  • Added a Git view, opening any git repository with a commit graph, branches, tags, remotes, stashes, and diff for a selected commit
  • Text files can now be edited in a new built-in file editor, with syntax highlighting support for 100+ languages
  • Added a built-in terminal, launchable from any directory
  • Search results now show the source directory of hits
  • Flies can now handle "Reveal in Finder" requests from other apps
  • Finder's "Open in Flies" and "Show in Flies" context menu items no longer need any installation
What's new in Flies 0.2.2

0.2.1alpha

  • Improved search experience, with filters that can now be combined, excluded, and matched by size, date, or extension
  • Added "Open in Flies" and "Show in Flies" to Finder's right-click menu, installable from Settings
  • Settings can now be searched, filtering to and highlighting matching options

0.2.0alpha

  • Internal architecture rewrite and performance improvements
  • Files can now be grouped by camera, lens, focal length, aperture, and ISO
  • Distribution of files by group can be visualised with a bar chart
  • Redesigned the sort and group menus, with sort direction always in reach
  • Text, code, and markdown previews can now copy the selected text from a right-click

0.1.13alpha

  • Images and video on MacOS can now default to opening in Flies
  • Added video preview with frame counter, and frame-snapshot capture
  • Added keyboard shortcuts for pane navigation and splitting
  • Added folder autocomplete suggestions to the path bar, with custom folder icons
  • Image preview now surface exposure mode, metering, focal length, and color space
  • Menu bar is now feature complete

0.1.12alpha

  • Added an image viewer, with zoom, an info panel, and an RGB histogram
  • Added syntax highlighting and line numbers to code blocks and code previews
  • Added custom app icons for unrecognized project files, instead of a generic file glyph
  • The clipboard list can now be inspected from the status bar
  • Added a Summer accent theme

0.1.11alpha

  • Complete settings overhaul
  • The toolbar, view modes, sidebar, status bar, and behavior can now all be customized in Settings
  • Keyboard shortcuts can now be fully customized. A key already assigned to another command can't be reused until it's freed up
  • Option to single-click to open folders.
  • Settings can now set a custom startup folder, with autocomplete, validation, and quick-pick suggestions

0.1.10alpha

  • Added zip/7z/rar compression and extraction, with progress, speed/ETA
  • The preview panel can now pop out into its own full tab
  • Current directory can be opened in terminal with a ⌘` shortcut
  • The 3D model viewer now plays embedded animation clips
  • 3D models can now be previewed
  • Added a click-to-compute SHA-256 checksum to the Properties pane
  • Added Forward, Up, hidden-files, close-pane, and copy-path shortcuts

0.1.9alpha

  • Spacebar now opens files: a quick, independently resizable preview panel for markdown and PDFs, or the default app for everything else
  • Added an adjustable text size for the Properties pane and preview content
  • Added Trash management, with a confirmation guard on permanent deletes
  • ⌘-drag now copies instead of moving, without a confirmation prompt
  • Fixed drag-and-drop from thumbnails and stray highlights across panes
  • Per-folder view changes no longer affect other panes
  • The update toast now opens the Updates settings tab, and the download progress bar no longer flashes
  • Added an edit hint to the folder icon in Properties

0.1.8alpha

  • Added a Miller/column view with drill-down columns
  • Fixed the properties panel jumping between panes and missing deep Column-view selections
  • Eject now fully detaches disks, with a correctly-confirming toast
  • Split buttons now disable and show the active direction
  • Enlarged the row icons in List and Details view

0.1.7alpha

  • Added a Model view for 3D files (glTF/GLB, OBJ, FBX, STL, PLY, DAE, 3DS), with drag-to-orbit and solid/wireframe/surface-angle shading
  • Music playback now stays in the pane that started it, even across splits and pane closes
  • The Music view now shows up for a single track too, not just folders with six or more

0.1.6alpha

  • Added a Music view for folders with lots of audio, with waveform playback, click-to-seek, and BPM/artist/album detection
  • Music now keeps playing across tab switches, with a status bar mini-player and a now-playing tab icon
  • Added an About panel to Settings, and a slide-in animation for the magazine view icon
  • Renaming a file or folder now updates everywhere it's referenced, instead of orphaning thumbnails, playback, tabs, and search results
  • Added a `flies <path>` command to open folders from the terminal, installable from Preferences

0.1.5alpha

  • Added a right-click menu on the Details view column header to choose which columns are shown
  • Added optional Date Created, Date Taken, Dimensions, Duration, Camera, Lens, Focal Length, Aperture, Exposure, and ISO columns
  • Photo/video metadata columns only show up in folders with enough media to be worth it
  • Smoother animations when dragging to reorder Details columns, sidebar items, and tabs

0.1.4alpha

  • Moved the New Folder button into the sort/group/search toolbar cluster
  • Added keyboard-shortcut hints to more toolbar tooltips
  • Gave the Properties panel a sliding open/close animation
  • Added an in-app changelog with a download progress bar to Settings > Updates