

You can connect multiple drives and transfer files between them with ease. Along with that, you get a robust remote connection interface that allows you to connect to remote drives such as Google Drive, Amazon S3, Rackspace, etc. ForkLift offers dual-pane navigation that allows you to open two different directories in the same window and move files quickly. You need to open multiple windows in order to drag and drop files from one folder to another but that is unintuitive at best. Archives are handled like subdirectories. Built in file viewer (F3) to view files of in hex, binary or text format. Internal text editor (F4) with syntax highlighting. The most obvious shortcoming of Finder is that you can only navigate one directory at a time. Key features of Double Commander: Unicode support. These new-gen file manager apps for macOS system take the best features from Finder and then add their own unique spin to it.

We found some better file managers for Mac that provide intuitive and useful features like dual-pane UI, advanced sync, and more keyboard shortcuts. While it’s perfectly fine for most users, I find it lacking in some aspects where I want to perform some advanced tasks like batch renaming, sync files across OS, or simply use keyboard shortcuts. Finder is what you would use to navigate Mac’s storage or access external devices.
