Shuffle

A modern file explorer for macOS, built for speed.

Inspired by File Pilot on Windows: an open source, GPU rendered file manager focused on the best performance, the smoothest feel, and a deep set of power user features and customization.

Philosophy

macOS file managers are either too limited or too slow. Shuffle is a single, small, native app that stays instant no matter how big the directory or how fast you move, and gives power users real tools instead of getting in the way.

• Fast. GPU rendered (Metal), fully virtualized lists. A folder with 100,000 items scrolls as smoothly as one with 10.
• Smooth. Native drag and drop, no jank, no Electron.
• Powerful and customizable. The features below, plus a theme system to make it yours.

Highlights

• 🪟 Dual panes / split canvas. Drag a tab to the edge to split the window into two side by side panes, each with its own tabs, history, and filter, and a draggable divider resizes them.
• 🗂️ Tabs. Cmd+T or +, with smooth drag to reorder and drag between panes.
• ⚡ Command palette (Cmd+P). Millisecond fuzzy search over your home directory with typo tolerance, live path browsing, and quick commands.
• ⌨️ Terminal mode. An optional command bar at the bottom to move through the explorer like a shell (cd navigates, Tab autocompletes paths and commands).
• 👁️ Preview and Information. Single click a file to preview it (QuickLook: images, PDFs, docs) and inspect its details in a side inspector.
• 🔎 In-place filter (/). Instantly narrow the current folder, typo tolerant.
• ☁️ Cloud and servers. Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, and iCloud show up automatically, alongside mounted volumes and a Connect to Server dialog.
• 🎨 Deep theming. Dozens of preset palettes (Catppuccin, Dracula, Nord, Gruvbox, Solarized, Tokyo Night, and bold single hue themes) plus per color customization, applied live.

Optional features (Terminal, Preview, Information) live in Settings › General and are off by default.

Platform support

Built for macOS, tuned for Apple Silicon (M series). It is a standard Metal app and runs on any modern Mac (macOS 12+). Intel builds from source.

Building from source

Written in Rust with GPUI (the GPU UI framework behind the Zed editor).

# Prerequisites: Rust (rustup), Xcode CLT, and the Metal toolchain:
xcodebuild -downloadComponent MetalToolchain

cargo run                 # debug
cargo build --release     # optimized
./make_app.sh && open ./Shuffle.app   # packaged .app bundle

Keyboard shortcuts

Shortcut	Action
Cmd+P	Command palette / fuzzy find
/	Filter the current directory
Cmd+T	New tab
Cmd+W	Close tab
Cmd+,	Settings

Roadmap — you pick what's next

The roadmap is prioritized by community votes. Every planned item has a thread in Ideas — open one and hit ⬆ upvote to push it up the queue, or start a new thread to propose something.

Status

Early but usable, under active development. Contributions and ideas welcome.

License

MIT © Jaime Guzman