Sift
Organize messy folders safely from your terminal
Details
- External ID
- 1246953
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Sift
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 14, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 3
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8905013897797733
- Tags
- Open Source, Developer Tools, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Sept. 15, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 15, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Sift is an open-source, local-first CLI that safely organizes messy folders. Preview every change with dry-run, apply only when you're ready, automate with rules and watch mode, protect sensitive files, and undo supported operations.
Enrichment
- Theme
- system maintenance and file utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- cli file organizer for terminal users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is an open-source CLI utility that parses directory trees, matches filenames via regular expressions/rules, and executes basic file move/rename operations with dry-run support.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 70 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #13 of 71 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 282 days after the earliest competitor.
- File Organizer · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Delune — Local Privacy Cleanup · ph · 2026-09-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Easy Disk · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- MergeDock · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Minimal container-like sandbox built from scratch in C · hn · 2025-12-07 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- DirMerge 2.0 · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- GitHub · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Git-workty · hn · 2026-01-06 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.37
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