Ferail

A fast, keyboard-first file manager - with the tools you normally install separately already built in.

Rust + GPUI macOS 12+ · Windows 10+ · Linux no telemetry v0.3.0

Download for macOS Ferail-0.3.0.dmg · 20 MB · Apple silicon Download for Windows Ferail-0.3.0-win-x64.zip · 36 MB · portable Download for Linux ferail_0.3.0-1_amd64.deb · 16 MB · Debian/Ubuntu Source on GitHub jonx/Ferail · Rust · MIT/Apache-2.0

arm64 Linux and previous versions are on the releases page.

Ferail's main window: sidebar, tabs, file list and preview pane — **The main window.** Tabs, a sidebar you can collapse, and a preview pane that renders text and code with syntax highlighting - not just thumbnails.

Disk usage treemap with a sunburst-style breakdown — **Disk usage, in the app.** A treemap you can drill into, with an HTML export - no separate utility to go install when the disk is suddenly full.

Duplicate finder results grouped by identical content — **Duplicate finder.** A hash funnel - size, then a partial xxh3, then full BLAKE3 - so only real candidates get read end to end. Clone- and hard-link-aware.

Archive workbench listing the contents of an archive — **Archives open like folders.** Browse inside zip, 7z, tar.* and lha without extracting first. Extract just what you selected, or drag files in to add them.

Bulk rename dialog with a live preview of the resulting names — **Bulk rename.** Regex with capture groups and a live preview of every resulting name, so you see the damage before you commit it.

File list showing content-derived descriptions in a column — **Descriptions from content.** Magic-byte sniffing, not extensions: image dimensions, audio sample rates, executable architecture, archive contents.

Command palette open over the file list — **Everything from the keyboard.** A command palette for every action, with the shortcut shown next to it - so you stop needing the palette.

Icon grid view with large thumbnails — **Grid view.** Real thumbnails for photos, video and PDFs, generated off the UI thread and cached across tabs.

Media viewer showing an image full-screen — **Built-in viewer.** Images and video with sticky zoom, so stepping through a folder keeps your framing.

Native, not Electron

Rust on GPUI - the GPU-accelerated UI framework from Zed. One codebase, no web runtime.

The UI never blocks

Nothing on the paint path touches the disk. Enumeration, hashing and previews all run off-thread, so a spun-down drive stalls the work and not the window.

No accounts, no telemetry

Nothing phones home. Metadata stays in a local SQLite database you can delete.

Also on AROS

The same codebase runs on AROS, the open-source AmigaOS reimplementation - a research port, but a real one.