FinderBack
Back & Forward navigation in Finder’s right-click menu
Details
- External ID
- 1253644
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- FinderBack
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 18, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Mac, Open Source, GitHub, OpenAI Day
- Fetched at
- Sept. 19, 2026, 1:15 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 19, 2026, 1:15 a.m.
Description
FinderBack is a small macOS utility that adds Back and Forward navigation directly to Finder’s right-click menu. I built it because I wanted faster folder navigation without constantly moving back to Finder’s toolbar. The source is available on GitHub, and there’s also a ready-to-run download for $9.99.
Enrichment
- Theme
- desktop and macOS productivity utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- context menu navigation utility for macos finder users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Modifying or injecting custom items into macOS Finder's native context menus requires low-level macOS system APIs (FinderSync extensions, accessibility APIs, or code injection) and reverse-engineering private Apple APIs.
What it would actually take: A real implementation requires Swift/Objective-C using either the FinderSync extension framework or Mach message hooking/swizzling via an app bundle. The developer needs deep macOS internals knowledge, Apple developer certificates, and handling of macOS System Integrity Protection (SIP) and hardened runtime requirements.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 39 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #24 of 40 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 172 days after the earliest competitor.
- Pathsta · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- macOS menu-bar manager for SSH port forwards · hn · 2026-07-23 · 45 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Pinpal — Save & Navigate Back · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Ricly · ph · 2026-09-29 · 74 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- NavKey · ph · 2026-09-17 · 66 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- Waypoint · ph · 2026-09-24 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- finder-alias · github · 2026-09-26 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- Orbit · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.35
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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