Kommanda 2.28.0

Apps open like apps

Double-click an app (or press Enter) and it launches — no more browsing into Something.app like a folder. Apps show their own icon, read “Application”, and drop the “.app” from their name, like Finder. Other bundles (.pages, .key, .photoslibrary…) open in their app too. Right-click ▸ Show Package Contents still takes you inside.

Dropping files onto an app no longer moves them into the app's bundle.

No more beachball on big copies

Copying a big folder — especially from another Mac over the network — could freeze Kommanda for minutes before anything appeared: it measured every file first, on the thread that draws the window. The progress window now opens right away, shows “Preparing… N files” while it counts (once, not three times), and Cancel works the whole way through.

Kommanda 2.27.0

Connect to Server

File ▸ Connect to Server… (⇧⌘K), or Network ▸ Connect to Server… in the sidebar, mounts an SMB, AFP, NFS or WebDAV share — type smb://nas.local/share, or just nas.local/share. macOS asks for the login and can keep it in your keychain, and the share opens in the active pane. Recent servers are one click away; Cancel stops a slow attempt.

Connected shares — including ones connected from Finder — appear under a new Network section in the sidebar, each with a button to disconnect.

AirDrop in the sidebar

Click AirDrop to open the AirDrop window, or drop files on it to send them to a nearby device.

Fixes

• Open with Kommanda now always lands in the pane you can see — in a new tab with Pro (or the tab already showing that folder). With one pane on screen, the hidden pane could stay active, so opened folders, pastes and new items went somewhere invisible. A hidden pane can no longer be active.
• ⌘C then ⌘V in the same folder creates a copy (“name copy”) again, like Finder — it failed for folders opened a certain way.
• Right-click a folder → New Folder Inside / New File Inside creates it inside that folder; the name prompt says where it goes.

Kommanda 2.26.0

Copy a folder without node_modules, .env…

Right-click a folder → Copy Without ▸ node_modules, .env, caches copies it like Copy, but leaves out secrets (.env, .env.local… — .env.example is kept), dependencies and build output (node_modules, .venv, Pods, __pycache__, .next, Rust target, Swift .build…), .git and .DS_Store. Paste it anywhere — Kommanda, Finder, a chat. A bar at the bottom shows progress, and pasting right away waits for it.

Choose What to Leave Out… scans the folder first and lists what it found with sizes — those items plus the folder's biggest file types (.mov — 42 files, 3.1 GB) — and takes your own patterns (*.psd, exports/, draft-*). Choices are remembered, and the quick command follows them.

Remove node_modules, .env… in place

Right-click a folder → Remove ▸ node_modules, .env, caches… finds them anywhere inside, lists them with sizes, and on confirmation moves them to the Trash. .git and .env.example are never touched. Choose What to Remove… opens the same picker — file types, patterns, even .git if you tick it — and still confirms the exact list first.

Accurate PowerPoint previews

macOS Quick Look draws some slides wrong — shapes carried over from the previous slide, a substitute font. The preview now has Accurate Preview: Keynote (or PowerPoint, if Keynote isn't installed) renders the deck exactly. 10–30 seconds the first time, instant after that until the file changes. macOS asks once for permission to control Keynote. Open in … opens the deck in its app.

Fixes

• Copying or pasting a folder that contains symlinks (Swift .build, node_modules/.bin…) no longer fails with "The file … doesn't exist".
• After a Cut, copying something else and then pasting no longer deletes the cut files.
• ⌘X then ⌘V now moves files, like Finder (it used to copy them).

Kommanda 2.25.0

Copy Image

Right-click an image and choose Copy Image to put the picture itself on the clipboard — not the file — so it pastes straight into Messages, Slack, a browser, a document or an image editor. Select several images and it becomes Copy N Images; in a mixed selection only the images are copied.

The image preview gets a Copy button next to Filters, and right-clicking the previewed image copies it too (including unsaved rotate/flip/filter edits, exactly as shown).

PNG and JPEG are copied with their original bytes, so nothing is recompressed.

Kommanda 2.24.1

• Folders opened in the list's tree view now update when files or folders are created, renamed or deleted outside Kommanda.
• Right-click → Delete now deletes the row you clicked (previously it could do nothing, or act on a different selected file).
• Deleting a file inside an opened folder now removes it from the list immediately.

Kommanda 2.24.0

The assistant shows what it understood before changing anything

The confirmation card now shows the assistant's own statement of what it's about to do — which files, and what happens to them — above the command, so you're confirming the interpretation and not just a path. If it said nothing, the card says so. The assistant is also instructed to ask one specific question when a request could mean two things ("clean up", "the old ones", "this one") rather than guess, and never to widen the scope beyond what you named.

The assistant works in the folder you're looking at

With two panes open, hiding the active one used to leave it active — so the assistant's working folder, and every "here" or "this folder", could point at a pane you couldn't see. Hiding a pane now makes the visible one active, and the assistant is told plainly which folder is on screen and that a hidden pane's folder is off limits unless you name it.

External drives are back in the sidebar

A plugged-in drive appeared nowhere. Detection had kept working; the sidebar had simply stopped showing it. A Devices section now appears whenever something is mounted, with a hover-revealed eject button. Mounted disk images stay out.

Settings and the User Manual behave like windows

Settings was fixed at 760×560 and couldn't be resized. It's now a normal, resizable window that opens larger, opens centred the first time, and remembers wherever you leave it. The User Manual opens centred too.

Also

The assistant now sees files selected inside an expanded folder — previously that selection reached it as no selection at all.

Kommanda 2.23.1

Create PDF from Selection works properly

Several things were quietly going wrong:

• Text files were cut off after one page. The whole file was drawn onto a single page and the rest discarded — a 22,000-character file produced one page holding about 2,700 characters, with no error. Text now flows across as many pages as it needs.
• Mixed selections lost their text files. If the selection contained even one image, every other file was handed to the image encoder and silently dropped. Selecting a screenshot alongside a source file produced a one-page PDF of just the screenshot. Images and text now combine into one document, in the order shown in the dialog, so dragging to reorder actually sets the page order.
• Nothing happened for files selected inside an expanded folder or in search results. Those selections weren't being resolved at all.
• Text that wasn't UTF-8 read as empty and vanished from the output.

The menu item is also now disabled unless the selection contains something that can become pages, instead of staying available and then failing.

More file types are accepted than before: tif, gif, bmp and webp images, and markdown, log, csv, json, xml, yaml, sh, rb, go, rs, java, kt, php, sql and others as text.

The AI menu only appears for files the assistant can read

The AI submenu showed up for any selection, offering to summarize archives, disk images, video and compiled binaries — none of which the assistant can open. It now appears for folders, text and source files, PDFs, and images, and stays hidden when nothing in the selection qualifies.

For multiple files, the counts in "Smart Rename" now reflect what will actually be processed rather than everything highlighted.

Kommanda 2.23.0

Files are sorted newest first, and the sort is remembered

The file list defaulted to sorting by name A–Z, which buries whatever you worked on most recently. It now sorts by Date Modified, newest first.

More importantly, the sort is finally remembered. Choosing a different column used to last until the next launch or the next new tab, whichever came first — so whatever you picked, you got the default handed back to you every time. Your choice now sticks, across tabs and across launches.

Folders expand in search results

Searching showed a disclosure arrow beside every folder result, but clicking it did nothing. Folders now expand while a search is active, so you can find a folder and look inside it without clearing the query first. Its contents show in full rather than filtered — they're the contents of a result, not results themselves.

Full file names on hover

Long names truncate in the list and wrap in the grid. Hovering a file now shows its complete name as a tooltip. In list view this stays out of the way while Preview on Hover is turned on.

Kommanda 2.22.0

Your AI conversations are kept

Chats used to disappear when you quit Kommanda. They are now saved locally and restored when you reopen, with the tab you were last using reselected. Unused tabs aren't kept, and history is pruned after 30 days.

Look inside a ZIP

Select a zip and the Preview panel lists everything in it — files and folders with sizes, and an uncompressed total — without extracting anything.

A Video filter

A new chip beside Images filters the list to video files. Mermaid (.mmd) diagrams also preview as source.

Renaming keeps your extension

Renaming now selects just the name and leaves the extension alone, so typing over report-2026.pdf replaces the name and keeps .pdf. Folders select their whole name, matching Finder.

PDF search arrows work

The up/down arrows beside the match counter now step through the hits instead of jumping back to the first one, and the match you're on is highlighted differently from the rest.

Junk remover

Faster and steadier: the category list appears in seconds rather than minutes, results stream in as each folder is measured, and a back arrow returns you to the category list without losing your selections.

Agent skills

A new Settings tab lists what the AI assistant can actually do, with example prompts you can click to copy.

Kommanda 2.21.3

Faster scrolling in the Junk remover

Scrolling a large set of results was sluggish. A full scan can turn up several thousand folders, and three things scaled badly with that:

• The list re-grouped and re-sorted every result on every frame while you scrolled.
• Expanding a category with thousands of folders built every row at once instead of as they came into view.
• Each result updated the view individually as the scan ran, rather than in batches.

All three are fixed. The list now stays smooth with thousands of results, and fills more smoothly while a scan is still running.