Dual panes, not dual windows
Each pane has Finder-style lists, folder tabs, and a path bar. Flip Source and Destination, or swap the two folders, without losing your place.
Native for macOS
Two panes. Either direction.
maXfolders is a dual-pane file manager. The active pane is the Source; the other is the Destination. Copy, move, compare, search, and pack files without hunting through overlapping Finder windows.
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Beta launch — while you can
Free today. 80% off Pro for life.
maXfolders is in beta and free to download right now. Register with a real email today, and that same email keeps 80% off every deal on maXfolders Pro — for as long as you use it.
What it does
Built for people who live in folders
Copy, move, compare
Transfers queue in a persistent window — pause, resume, reorder, or cancel any of them. Folder compare paints identical, missing, and changed items. A side-by-side comparator opens text and binary files.
Find, pack, preview
Search by name, content, size, and date. Browse zip and tar like folders. Preview code and documents in a separate window that follows the Source selection.
Compare
See what changed, then keep what you want
Compare two folders by name. Matching items go green, missing items red, and same-name files with a different date orange. Then Keep Source or Keep Destination — with an option to keep only the newer file.
Need the contents of two files? File Comparator shows a side-by-side text or hex view, jumps between differences, and can hide matching lines.
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Connect
Browse a server like a local folder
Connect to Server (⌘K) opens FTP or SFTP in a pane you browse, drag, upload, and download exactly like a local folder. Passwords and key passphrases stay in the Keychain; SFTP host keys are pinned.
Enter a host, pick Password or Private Key, and the remote pane behaves like Source or Destination — copy, move, and compare work the same way across the connection.
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Terminal
A terminal that follows your path
F11, ⌃⌘T, or the terminal icon opens a colored, resizable shell below either pane — no separate window, no switching to Terminal.app. As you navigate — Backspace, a double-click, the path bar, or a bookmark — the shell sends a cd to match, so its prompt always sits in the folder you're looking at.
Inside a git working tree, a small toolbar above the shell adds Git Status, Fetch, Pull, Push, and Commit All…, alongside Clear Terminal. Each pane remembers its own height and whether it's open.
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Looks at home on a Mac
Native lists, themes, and a toolbar you can shape
A unified toolbar with Icon and Text. Finder icons in the file list. Appearance can follow macOS, or you can lock Light or Dark and pick a theme — Native, Paper, Sand, Ice, Midnight, Forest, Ember, Commander, Xcode, or Retro.
Full feature set
Everything, grouped and ready to open
Five groups cover every corner of maXfolders. Expand one below, or head straight to the Features page for screenshots and detail.
Panes & navigation
5
Transfer & compare
6
- Copy, move & delete queue in a persistent, resumable Transfers window
- Checksum-verified transfers for S3, Dropbox, and WebDAV PRO
- Drag and drop straight from Finder
- Folder compare — color-coded, Keep Source or Destination
- File Comparator — side-by-side text and hex diffs
- Bulk Delete & Rename with a dry-run preview, local and FTP (any connection type on PRO)
Search, archives & lists
4
Remote & Git
5
Look, feel & extras
7
- Ten themes, plus System, Light, or Dark
- Terminal.app in both editions, or an embedded shell that follows your path, on PRO
- Preview — a Quick Look–style window that follows Source
- Open, Edit, Permissions, and a customizable toolbar
- A Settings window (⌘,) with a reset button per section
- Shortcuts.app automation for Copy, Move, Archive, and Find actions
- Tools — Base64, URL, HTML, JSON, XML, escaping, QR codes, OCR, and a cron parser, built in
New in 1.6.40
A Tools menu, built right in
Nine small, self-contained utility windows between Go and Window — Base64, URL, and HTML encode/decode, image-to-text OCR, a JSON formatter, an XML formatter, string/HTML text escaping, a QR code generator and reader, and a cron expression parser. See the full writeup on the Features page.
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Free on the Mac App Store. Or get Pro, direct.
The App Store edition covers local file management — free, sandboxed, no download-and-drag needed. maXfolders Pro adds the embedded terminal, Finder integration, and SFTP/cloud connections, sold directly from this site rather than the Store. See the full comparison, or grab Pro now — still free during the beta.