TheFile.Ninja

Features

What TheFile.Ninja does, one part at a time. Pro marks what the free Core edition leaves out.

Panes and folders

Dual panes and tabs

Side by side or stacked, any number of tabs, each with its own history and view. Commander, Explorer and classic layouts.

Folders open at once

Listings come from a cache first and are checked behind the scenes; slow disks, shares and servers never freeze the window.

Five ways to look

Details with any columns, icons with thumbnails and peeks inside folders, Miller columns, the Space view and the Showcase.

The whole tree in the Space viewPro

A treemap of what takes the room, all the way down.

Views that follow the folder

Pictures, music, code and downloads get views of their own; keep a view for a folder, its subfolders or a whole drive.

Flat view

Every file below a folder in one list, kept up to date as files change.

Find things

Search as you type

Everything's syntax and index, and the app's own search where Everything cannot look: archives, servers, phones, WSL and collections.

Describe it insteadPro

Write “big PDFs here from last month” and the AI writes the search. Mark and tag files by description, rename them in plain words.

What the search found

The matching lines of every hit in the preview pane, the matches marked.

Saved searchesPro

Keep searches and sync profiles under a name and run them again.

Tags and collections

Colour tags kept with the files themselves, and collections: files from anywhere, arranged in folders of their own.

Files and operations

Undo, really

Every copy, move, delete, rename and new folder can be undone — also days later, also after a crash.

Copies that know the disk

Jobs run side by side, paced by the disk they are on; a clash is one question while everything else carries on.

Multi-rename

Masks, search and replace, regular expressions and counters, every new name shown before anything is renamed.

Synchronize foldersPro

Compare two folders by date or content and bring them in line, one way or both — undoable.

Archives are folders

Browse zip, 7z, tar and rar like folders, change what is inside, make new ones with a password.

Magic Wormhole

Send files and folders to any computer or phone with a short code.

Places

FTP and SFTP serversPro

In the panes like any folder: saved connections, key files, passwords kept in Windows' Credential Manager.

Phones and cameras

Android phones and cameras over USB, read and written like a disk.

WSL, network and cloud

Linux distributions, network shares and devices, and OneDrive, Dropbox and Google Drive with each file’s state.

BackupsPro

Versioned backups on a schedule, with a copy in the cloud; browse every run as a folder. Browsing and restoring are free.

See inside

Preview almost anything

Text of any size, pictures, PDF, Office documents and slides, web pages, video and sound, and source code in colour.

Images+Pro

HEIC photos from phones, camera RAW, Photoshop files and JPEG XL.

Viewer and file compare

A viewer for files of any size, and two files compared side by side with every change marked.

The Showcase

Games, films, music and books as covers on shelves.

Covers from the internetPro

Box art, album sleeves and posters fetched for what has no picture of its own.

For power users

Git in the panesPro

Status in the list, diffs in the preview; stage, commit, branch, pull and push from the panes. The branch chip is free.

A terminal in every tabPro

cmd under the list, following the folder. Pro adds PowerShell, Git Bash and WSL.

fn, the shell’s link to the panes

fn sel, fn go, fn rm, fn pick: what is marked in the panes in your commands, and your commands’ output in the panes.

Lua scripts and the Action StudioPro

Actions, columns, previews and toolbar widgets in Lua, written in an editor with completion, checks and an assistant.

WorkspacesPro

Panes, tabs and layout saved under a name and back with a key.

Command palette and keys

Every command by name with Ctrl+Shift+P, and every key can be changed.

Made for you

Five languages

English, Swedish, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and Japanese, with your own date and number formats.

Portable

Run it from a folder or a USB stick; it leaves nothing on the computer.

Plugins

Previews, AI providers, cover art and cloud storage come as plugins from a signed store.