Open a folder and see what's in it. Sidebar shortcuts to the usual places, a breadcrumb you can click, columns you can sort — and rename, trash, and open-with-the-system on the files you find.
Home, Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, Videos — the XDG user folders that exist on your system, plus the folders you opened recently. Click to jump.
Every segment of the path is a button. Back and Up sit beside it, Backspace goes up, and the item count with total size stays at the right while long paths ellipsize from the left.
Folders first, then files. Click a column header to sort by it; click again to flip. Your sort is remembered between sessions.
F2 renames inline with the stem preselected. Delete moves to the freedesktop trash — never a permanent delete, so there's no confirmation to click through.
Double-click or Enter hands a file to xdg-open, so it lands in whatever app you already use. Folders open in the same window; a second window is a second folder.
Small binary, AppImage and .deb, a real inode/directory association, in-app updater. Built on Tauri and Rust — no Electron.
One-liner — downloads the AppImage to ~/.local/bin, marks it executable, and registers a launcher entry. Re-run to upgrade.
curl -fsSL https://krill-software.github.io/install.sh | bash -s files
Clone, install dependencies, and build with Tauri. Needs Node (with pnpm) and a Rust toolchain.
# clone git clone https://github.com/krill-software/files.git cd files # build pnpm install pnpm tauri build