Commander One for Mac

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

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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.

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

Built-in FTP manager lets you connect to remote servers via FTP, SFTP or FTPS. Commander One for macOS offers two panels for more efficient and fast work with the files and all your operations big and small are conveniently queued.

Manage all your sheets and docs in a professional dual-pane style. The tool lets you mount multiple Google Drive accounts to work with your online files. The appallows 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. Integrate as many Dropbox accounts as needed and share files from Dropbox folder on your Mac directly from Commander One.

Features and Highlights

Finder alternative
With this app you can use two panels at once, set up your very own hotkeys for any action, and way more. Moreover, it is free software that can be a great OS X Finder alternative.

Free Apple file manager
Commander One is packed full with the 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 — the app is your all-in-one solution.

Advanced search with RegExp support
The tool lets you search for any files and folders on any disks even if compressed. You can use Regular Expressions for more precise search and make it case sensitive.

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

Manage your connections
The easiest way to access and manage all your clouds and network servers in one place.

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.

Cloud Services Integration:

• Securely store and access files online with encryption.
• Connect and manage Dropbox, Google Drive (including "Shared with me" and Shared Drives), and Microsoft OneDrive seamlessly.
• Mount and handle Amazon S3 accounts, specific buckets, and S3-compatible storages.
• Work with OpenStack, Mega, pCloud, Box.com, and Backblaze B2 without saving files locally.

Archive Management:

• Work with 7zip files as regular folders—view, add, or remove files without extraction.
• Create password-protected 7zip archives.
• Fully manage TAR formats (TBZ, TGZ, Tar.Z, tar.lzma, tar.xz) with compression, extraction, and search.
• Extract, search, and copy files from RAR archives without full extraction.
• Handle zip, ipa, apk, jar, war, xpi, cab, bz, bz2, taz, z, gz, xz, tb, tb2 files like standard folders.

What`s New

Improved: connection to SFTP servers with two-factor authentication (2FA).

Fixed: connection to some SFTP servers.

Fixed: file list displaying on some FTP servers.

Fixed: copying of symlinks.

Fixed: crash when connecting to Amazon S3 storage with incorrect parameters.

System requirements

Requires macOS 10.13 or later.

PROS

• Dual-panel interface – Efficient file management
• Cloud storage support – Integrates with major services
• Advanced search – Finds files with RegEx support
• Built-in FTP client – Easy remote file access
• Customizable hotkeys – Boosts workflow efficiency

CONS

• Limited free version – Many features require PRO
• No drag & drop tabs – Reduces multitasking ease
• Occasional slowdowns – Performance can lag
• Basic UI design – Lacks modern aesthetics
• No built-in file preview – Requires external apps

Note: After 15 days the Commander One Pro features are disabled. Requires 64-bit processor.