CutX
Cut and paste files in Finder, like on Windows
Details
- External ID
- 1245533
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- CutX
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7405388069275176
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity, Open Source, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Sept. 12, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 12, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
macOS has no cut for files: Finder's ⌘X is greyed out, and the real move gesture (⌘C then ⌥⌘V) is one almost nobody knows. CutX makes the obvious shortcut do the obvious thing. Press ⌘X on a file or folder, then ⌘V where you want it. The items move. CutX never touches your files — it asks Finder to do the move, so undo, progress, Replace/Keep Both and permission prompts all work as usual. Outside Finder, ⌘X still cuts text. Free, open source, no tracking. 11 languages, incl. mirrored Arabic.
Enrichment
- Theme
- desktop and macOS productivity utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- windows-style file cut and paste for mac finder
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes CutX is a lightweight native macOS menu bar / background helper app that captures Command+X in Finder and triggers Finder's native move AppleScript/NSWorkspace commands.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 174 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #45 of 175 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 298 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Pathsta · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Cloveworks · ph · 2026-09-10 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Talos · ph · 2026-09-29 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Ricly · ph · 2026-09-29 · 74 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Vocal Slice · hn · 2026-08-10 · 51 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Accent Letters · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Markly · ph · 2026-09-25 · 62 upvotes · similarity 0.42
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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