Ferry
a fast, compact, versatile dual-pane file manager for macOS
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Ferry is like Finder on steroids. A much better file manager experience for your Mac. Ferry is a lightweight, native macOS file manager that brings all the file manipulation tools you need into one app. It keeps what works in Finder and improves on the rest, while staying fast, private, and packed with features without getting in your way. Works on macOS 14 Sonoma or later.
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PH · launched Oct 24, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%)
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- User Experience
- Storage
- Developer Tools
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Partial A dual-pane file manager is buildable in SwiftUI/AppKit, but matching Finder-level performance, edge cases, and macOS integration is a substantial engineering effort beyond typical vibe-coded output.
What it would actually take: Build with Swift and AppKit for the file-system layer (FileManager, NSWorkspace, security-scoped bookmarks, Spotlight/metadata queries) and a dual-pane UI. The hard parts are reliable handling of large directories, file operations with progress and undo, permissions and sandboxing, and macOS-native polish. This needs an experienced macOS developer who understands the platform's file system APIs.
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Attention rank: #212 of 378 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 354 days after the earliest competitor.
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