FinderFlow 1.4

Finder-like defaults + in-app updates

• Finder-like defaults on first launch — list view, name sort, date-modified groups (Today, Yesterday, 7/30/90 days, Earlier), and folders on top. All browse preferences are remembered across launches.
• Reset to Finder defaults in Settings restores those factory browse settings.
• In-app updates — checks GitHub Releases (~twice a day) and shows a banner when a newer version is available. Update Now downloads the DMG, verifies SHA-256 against the published checksum file, replaces the running app, and relaunches.
• Check for Updates in the FinderFlow menu and Settings.

Integrity

Each release includes FinderFlow-1.4.dmg.sha256. The app refuses to install if the checksum is missing or does not match.

SHA-256: 57d1d9a1088b90c602fa87399049410e5954030a79722a5ee767165f85048f2b

Verify manually: shasum -a 256 FinderFlow-1.4.dmg

FinderFlow 1.3

FinderFlow 1.3 — apps launch correctly, folders open faster.

What's fixed

Double-click apps to launch them

Application bundles () and other opaque packages no longer open as folders when you double-click them. FinderFlow now matches Finder: double-click launches the app. Right-click → Show Package Contents still lets you browse inside when you need to.

Faster folder browsing

• Directory metadata is prefetched in one pass (less disk I/O per folder).
• Stale reloads are cancelled when you click through folders quickly — no more waiting for an old folder to finish loading.
• Larger icon cache so scrolling back to a folder you've already visited feels snappier.

Install

1. Open the DMG and drag FinderFlow.app to Applications.
2. First launch (one time if Gatekeeper blocks): System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway, or:

   xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/FinderFlow.app
   

Requirements: macOS 14+ · Universal (Apple Silicon + Intel)
DMG SHA-256: 97589bcdb701e49fc9679921d79625ce2304cd6a26834de7682d285005003718

FinderFlow 1.2

FinderFlow 1.2 — drag files out, and group / sort like Finder (and Explorer).

What's new

Drag files anywhere

Grab a file or folder from List, Icons, or Columns and drop it on the Desktop, another Finder window, an upload dialog, a browser, Slack, Mail — real file drag, just like Finder. Multi-select drags the whole selection. Cut / Copy / Paste are unchanged.

Finder-style grouping (all views)

Toolbar Group By menu:

• None (flat list)
• Date Modified / Date Created — Today, Yesterday, Previous 7 Days, Previous 30 Days, Previous 90 Days, Earlier
• Kind, Extension, Size, Name (A–Z)

Works in List, Icons, and Columns.

Folders first / Files first / Mixed

Independent of the Sort picker: keep sorting by Name (or Date / Size / …) while floating folders above files, below files, or mixing them into the sort.

Install

1. Open the DMG and drag FinderFlow.app to Applications.
2. First launch (one time if Gatekeeper blocks): System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway, or:

   xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/FinderFlow.app
   

Requirements: macOS 14+ · Universal (Apple Silicon + Intel)
DMG SHA-256: 718a66354e0535b838f426190a9fb92956885f49c1e902a08fcfcbe9824a174f

FinderFlow 1.1

FinderFlow 1.1 — the Markdown reader grows up.

What's new

• Draggable & resizable Markdown reader. The Markdown reader/editor now opens in a real macOS window — drag it by the titlebar, resize, zoom and minimise like any native window (it used to be a fixed, modal panel). The window is reused for the next Markdown file and remembers its size and position.
• "Open in editor" now uses FinderFlow's own editor. The reader's link button (</>) previously launched an external app (Obsidian / TextEdit). It now opens the file in FinderFlow's built-in code editor, auto-saving any unsaved Markdown edits first.
• Consistent Markdown handling. Opening a .md file with FinderFlow (from Finder or the command line) now shows the rendered reader — matching what double-clicking a .md inside the app already did.

Install

1. Open the DMG and drag FinderFlow.app to Applications.
2. First launch (one time, because the app is free & not notarized): try to open it, then go to System Settings → Privacy & Security → "Open Anyway". Or run:

   xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/FinderFlow.app
   

Requirements: macOS 14 (Sonoma) or newer · Universal (Apple Silicon + Intel)
DMG SHA-256: 8f536859f29dbd037ac3ea37bdffdb969d17f0a1c02995cb108dc1dd694ec4fe

FinderFlow 1.0

FinderFlow 1.0 — first public release.

A fast, native macOS Finder alternative with the parts Finder is missing:

• 📝 Built-in code editor — tabs, syntax highlighting, command palette (⌘⇧P), Sublime-style minimap
• 📖 Markdown reader & editor (no Obsidian needed)
• 🏷️ Real Finder-compatible color tags
• 🔎 Spotlight search across your whole Mac (+ .ext search)
• 👀 Preview for popular file types (Quick Look engine)
• 🖱️ UI cut / copy / paste / move / compress / extract with undo/redo
• 🧑‍💻 One-click Open in Terminal / VS Code / Cursor / Claude Code / Codex
• 🔗 One-click copy folder path

Universal (Apple Silicon + Intel) · macOS 14+ · ≈ 6.8 MB · Free & open source (MIT).

Install

1. Download FinderFlow-1.0.dmg, open it, drag FinderFlow to Applications.
2. First launch is blocked once (free app, not paid-Apple-signed): System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway, or run:
   xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/FinderFlow.app

🌐 Landing page: https://gtarafdar.github.io/FinderFlow/