Folio
Windows Explorer for Mac, with undo for everything
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Folio is a native Mac file manager: address bar, tabs, drives, status bar, details pane and plain-English search. Its Assistant is an on-device AI chat with access to your files. Ask it to find, read or organise anything. You approve every change.
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PH · launched Oct 26, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 23%)
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- Developer Tools
- Tech
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See all 567 similar launches →Could you build this?
Partial A native Mac file browser with tabs, a details pane, and search is buildable in Swift with AI coding help. Making it match Finder's reliability and implementing undo across all file operations, plus an on-device assistant that safely acts on files, is harder.
What it would actually take: Build as a SwiftUI/AppKit app using FileManager and security-scoped bookmarks, with an operation journal to power undo for moves, renames, and deletes. The hard parts are edge cases such as permissions, iCloud and network volumes, and atomic reversible operations, plus safely constraining an on-device LLM (Apple Foundation Models or MLX) to propose actions that the user approves. This needs experienced macOS systems engineering and extensive testing.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 567 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #123 of 568 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 344 days after the earliest competitor.
- Folia Files · ph · 2026-10-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Branchway · ph · 2026-10-19 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- folio · github · 2026-09-15 · 37 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Shark - Better Finder · ph · 2026-10-27 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- stash · ph · 2026-10-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- FileRanger · ph · 2026-10-25 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Bay · ph · 2026-10-16 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Ferry · ph · 2026-10-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49