Commander One
Free dual pane file manager for Mac

For all those who’ve been missing a famous dual-panel file manager for Mac, we tried to keep the best of what the classic solution offered, and did it with all the affection to OS X users.

Totally new Commander One for Mac is 100% naturally written in Swift and will bring back long forgotten feeling of fast & convenient keyboard and mouse Finder alternative.

Finder alternative

With Commander One you can use two panels at once, set up your very own hotkeys for any action, and way more. Moreover it is a free software that can be a great OS X Finder alternative.
Commander One main window
Free Apple file manager
Commander One is packed full with most important features for perfect Mac file management. No matter if you are a professional user or just finding your way to becoming a pro in fully controlling your documents — Commander One is your all-in-one solution.

Show hidden files

A handy toolbar button displays all hidden files

Fonts & Colors

Choose the most appealing color scheme for your eyes

Brief mode

See and manage multiple files and folders at once

History and Favorites

Easy access to your favorite or already opened folders
essentials at your fingertips

Customizable Hotkeys

Any action can be assigned with a hotkey

Unlimited tabs

Two panels with an unlimited number of tabs

Convenient items selection

Select only those files you want to work with

File operations queue

Queue the operations accordingly
handy tools you get for free

ZIP Support

Archive, extract, or just open ZIP as a folder

Built-in file viewer

Hex and Binary files are supported additionally to text, media, image, HTML formats

List of Computers in local network

All computers over network are detected and displayed in the list

Root Access

You are getting the most possible access to your files

PRO Pack

You are welcome to use amazing PRO Pack features of Commander One for 15 days for free!

FTP Manager

Dropbox

Mount iOS devices

Process manager

Amazon S3

Google Drive

Mount Android & MTP devices

Terminal emulator

WebDAV protocol NEW

OneDrive NEW

Compress and extract

Themes

Manage your connections

The easiest way to access and manage all your clouds and network servers in one place.
FTP client
Built-in FTP manager lets you connect to remote servers via FTP, SFTP or FTPS. Commander One offers two panels for more efficient and fast work with the files and all your operations big and small are conveniently queued.

Commander One safely stores all your server settings and passwords are kept safe in Keychain.
Amazon S3 client
If you prefer working with Amazon's secure, durable, highly-scalable object storage, Commander One will add a lot to your professional file management with its dual-pane interface and lots of useful features.

You'll be able to connect to and conveniently manage data stored in your Amazon S3, as well as link your entire Amazon S3 account or selected buckets.
WebDAV client NEW
Commander One allows you to connect to a remote server and mount it on your computer as a drive. This way you get complete control over the files on server — view, create, upload, edit, etc.

Commander One utilizes multiple connections not just for file transfer but for viewing and deleting of remote directories.
Dropbox
Integrate as many Dropbox accounts as needed and share files from Dropbox folder on your Mac directly from Commander One.

As an alternative to integration you can mount your online Dropbox without installing it on your Mac and copying your data there.

You can use your Dropbox Business in synergy with Commander One for extensive security and administration features.
Google Drive
Manage all your sheets and docs in a professional dual-pane style. Commander One lets you mount multiple Google Drive accounts to work with your online files.

As an alternative you can access and work with your Google Drive files without saving them on Mac.
OneDrive NEW
Your OneDrive accounts can be set up as local drives allowing you to work with remote files as if they were on your machine. A handy dual-pane interface makes operating and navigating easy: upload, download, cut, copy, paste, move, delete, rename, create new folder, etc.

Managing your OneDrive account content doesn't require copying any information on your Mac.

Mount Devices

One place to work with content of all your devices no matter if it is iOS or Android device or even a photo/video camera.
iOS file transfer
Your iOS device can be easily mounted when you connect it to your computer with USB cable. Commander One works with User/Media folder and is compatible with iOS 5.x-10.x.

You are getting an easy access to all photos on your iPhone or iPad. Edit them on your Mac and save to device.
MTP file transfer
Access and manage data on your photo or video camera. Mount it as a drive on your Mac when connecting with a USB cable.

You can browse your photos and videos conveniently on your Mac's screen without copying or transferring all of them back and forth.
Android file transfer
Listen to your Android device music, watch movies, and check photos on Mac without actually copying anything to Mac. If needed you can copy any files from your Mac to Android device and vice versa.

Just connect your device to Mac and it will be available as a mounted drive in Commander One.

Archiver for Mac

Commander One is a fast and simple Mac archiver, supporting multiple types of files. You can work with your ZIP, RAR, TBZ, TGZ, 7z files. We are working on adding the possibility to compress to RAR at this time.

Don't forget to enable search through compressed archives in your copy of Commander One!

Process Manager

All processes running on your Mac are easy to manage with Commander One. They are orderly displayed on screen and you can get full information about each of them.

Quit any process or all of them in one click in Commander One.

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/Fast
You can execute terminal commands directly from Commander One.
/Advanced <ctrl+o>
For your utter convenience, Commander One has a built-in Terminal emulator with all needed options, but without jumping between the apps.

Themes

We have created various color themes to personalize your Commander One and you can tune your very own for unique appearance.
Commander One blue theme

Commander One full features list

# Features Free PRO Pack
1 2 panels with 3 view modes and unlimited tabs
2 Multiple selection
3 File operations queue
4 Rename files during copy and move operations
5 Set up custom hotkeys for any action
6 Work with local and network drives
7 Customizable fonts & colors
8 Spotlight search
9 Show hidden files
10 Advanced search with regular expressions

Commander One Languages

  • Český
  • Deutsch
  • English
  • Français
  • Українська
  • Magyar
  • 日本の
  • 한국어
  • Polski
  • Русский
  • Español
  • Nederlands
  • 中文

Commander One

This dual panel file manager for Mac is fully compatible with MacOS 10.10 and later. Requires 58.68MB free space, latest version 3.3(3508) Released 8 Sep, 2021
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