Available on Mac

The most popular file manager on Mac OS X

Share
The Finder is the default application program used on the Mac OS and Mac OS X operating systems that is responsible for the overall user-management of files, disks, network volumes and the launching of other applications. As such the Finder acts like the shell on other operating systems, but using a graphical user interface. It was introduced with the very first Macintosh computer, and also existed as part of GS/OS on the Apple IIGS. It underwent a complete rewrite with Apple's switch to a UNIX-based OS in Mac OS X.
… More Edit

Recent posts

Icon_feed
Show

Want to add to the discussion? Log in and write a review

  • yo2boy expert
    Features:
    Performance:
    Interface:
    Price:

    Necessary app is Necessary.

  • radzio93 devotee
    Features:
    Performance:
    Interface:
    Price:

    dobre, ale nie ma to jak Ubuntu ;P

  • Yannick Baro expert
    Features:
    Performance:
    Interface:
    Price:

    good, but not as good as Konqueror...

  • anonymousug devotee
    Features:
    Performance:
    Interface:
    Price:

    After suffering with Windows at work 10 hours a day, it is always refreshing to be able to navigate folders with arrow keys and preview files in columns or QuickLook. The ability to, with one click, quickly drag a file through a series of springloaded folders to the place where I want it, without clicking here and clicking there and right-clicking makes it so much easier to organize files.

    Like everything Apple and Mac, it just works.

  • Kwintin expert
    Features:
    Performance:
    Interface:
    Price:

    SL version is just sweeeeeeet.

  • allenshull devotee

    Better than Windows Explorer or Nautilus, that's for sure.

  • Nervioso expert
    Features:
    Performance:
    Interface:
    Price:

    Nice and clean.

  • Danijel James devotee
    Features:
    Performance:
    Interface:
    Price:

    Best version of Finder since the conception of OS X.

  • michaelellis fanatic
    Features:
    Performance:
    Interface:
    Price:

    Find and manage anything on your Mac... files, disks, network locations, and more.

  • Steve Kudelko fanatic
    Features:
    Performance:
    Interface:
    Price:

    I've been using the Finder since 1989, when I was old enough to start using a computer. My parents... they've been using it since 1984. The Finder was always a part of my computing experience growing up, and even though I make a living fixing Windows machines, I will always be a Mac user. Every once in a while, I kind of miss the flat graphical UI that the Finder was in System 6 and 7. I definitely think that the Finder and the rest of Mac OS X is really overdue for a UI refresh. Apple, we need more colors than just blue and grey. I'd love to see a color scheme and UI similar to that of the new QuickTime X player. But honestly, I think the next big advance in Mac UI is going to combine the Finder with the iPhone Springboard and the Dashboard, and that'll be the way things look and act.

  • kreiner expert
    Features:
    Performance:
    Interface:
    Price:

    A leap into the future compared to Explorer !

  • Forne fanatic
    Features:
    Performance:
    Interface:
    Price:

    Fast and powerful

  • TheComputerGuy96 devotee
    Features:
    Performance:
    Interface:
    Price:

    You can't use your Mac without Finder!

  • kyleabaker fanatic
    Features:
    Performance:
    Interface:
    Price:

    Great!

  • AshikCygan expert
    Features:
    Performance:
    Interface:
    Price:

    It mostly great =)

Screenshots

Icon_prev Icon_next
  • Thumb
  • Thumb
  • Thumb
  • Thumb
Website: apple.com/macosx/featu...
Developer: Apple Inc.
License: Bundled
Version: 10.6.2
Rating: Features:
Interface:
Performance:
Price/value:
Overall:
Usage: 23 years, 8 months, 2 weeks, 4 days, 13 hours, 15 minutes and 32 seconds
Usage since: 09 May 2007

Popularity over the last 30 days (?)

Finder vs.

Rank: #3

Filenames