Sigma File Manager
Free, open-source, cross-platform, modern file manager app
Details
- External ID
- 1161635
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Sigma File Manager
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- June 8, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 152
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.004807692307692308
- Tags
- Productivity, Open Source, GitHub, Tech
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 1:23 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 1:23 a.m.
Description
"Sigma File Manager" is a free, open-source, quickly evolving, modern file manager (explorer / browser) app for Windows and Linux (Mac is supported but the build is not provided yet, can be built from source). - aleksey-hoffman/sigma-file-manager
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
- file manager for cross-platform systems
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Building a full-fledged cross-platform file manager requires dealing with low-level OS filesystem APIs, permissions, file streaming, virtual filesystems, and native desktop shells (Electron/Tauri/C++).
What it would actually take: A functional clone would use Tauri or Electron with Rust/Node.js to handle OS-specific file system calls, file watching, and native context menus. The hardest parts are robust cross-platform performance when indexing or watching large directories, handling locks/permissions, and multi-threaded background operations (copy/move with progress and error recovery). It requires solid systems programming and desktop framework experience.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 84 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #85 of 85 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 194 days after the earliest competitor.
- Filesmash Fast file manager for Windows · ph · 2026-09-26 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Filemat · hn · 2026-05-27 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Clear Download Manager · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Fast, native Mac file manager (filters, fuzzy find, 9 MB, no Electron) · hn · 2026-07-07 · 98 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- SIGMA PROOFKIT · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- FileTools · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Hosting-File-Manager · github · 2026-09-11 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- WinOptima · ph · 2026-09-19 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.41
Other launches for this product
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