Developer Tools · since 0.2.2

Your dev tools, beside your files.

When you're browsing a project, small jobs shouldn't send you off to another app.

A terminal in any folder

Press ⌘ ` to open a terminal in the folder you’re in. You can drop files and images into it, and ⌘-click a path in its output to open it in a new tab.

Tabs pick up their name from the shell’s title. If one is still running a command, Flies asks before closing it.

Going the other way, flies <path> opens a folder from your own shell.

Git, at a glance

The Git view opens any repository with its commit graph, branches, tags, remotes and stashes. Click a commit to see its diff.

Edit without leaving

Text files open in a built-in editor with syntax highlighting for more than 100 languages. Multiple cursors, code folding, find and go to line are all there, and it reads the indent setting from the file itself so you don’t have to.

Markdown files get a formatting toolbar.

Also handy

  • Checksums. Compute a file’s SHA-256 from the Properties pane.
  • Archives. Compress and extract zip, 7z and rar, including password-protected zips.

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