FinderBack
Back & Forward navigation in Finder’s right-click menu
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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.
PH · launched Sep 18, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: macos system utilities · 448 launches, 31 in the last 7 days ▼ -30% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Open Source
- GitHub
- OpenAI Day
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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 : 82 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #67 of 83 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 57 days after the earliest competitor.
- Switchback · ph · 2026-10-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- finder-menu · github · 2026-10-09 · 355 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Ocomenu · ph · 2026-10-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Menubloom · ph · 2026-11-10 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Rightly · ph · 2026-10-08 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Pathsta · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Finder · ph · 2026-10-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Back To Top · ph · 2026-10-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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