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December 7th, 2024

Commander One as a Finder Replacement

Mac Apps
Commander One Interface
Commander One Interface


The Mac Finder is fine for casual users, but if your use cases involve a lot of file management to handle photography or videography related tasks, heavy downloading, web publishing or other more advanced tasks, you'd be well served to look for a replacement. Commander One by Electronic Teams, Inc. Is a serviceable option. It has a dual pane interface, with each pane featuring unlimited tabs. There are three view options per pane: details, list and icons.

The Commander One features list is long:

  • Easily toggle hidden files
  • Customizable fonts and colors
  • Bookmark favorite file locations
  • Customize any of the numerous hotkeys available for file actions
  • Queue file operations
  • ZIP support
  • Built in file viewer
  • Root access to files

Search

  • Regex support
  • Search file contents
  • Built in advanced search plus Spotlight search

Pro Pack

All of the features listed above are part of the free version of Commander One. If you purchase the Pro Pack for $29.95 you get the following:

  • FTP Manager
  • Access connected MTP, iOS and Android devices
  • Connect to Dropbox, Google Drive, Amazon S3, Box, OneDrive, BackBlaze, WebDAV
  • Terminal Emulator
  • Advanced compression and decompression tools

Other Finder replacement options are Qspace and Pathfinder.