Show HN: Fast, native Mac file manager (filters, fuzzy find, 9 MB, no Electron)

Post by thx67 » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 10:10 AM UTC

whimbyte wrote: post #70

thx67 wrote: post #66

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Could be pulling in webkit. 9MB doesn't mean it isn't based on a web renderer. It would be awesome if software came with a nutrition label. IO, does it phone home, memory safety, does it use web renderer, memory usage, etc.

There's no web renderer at all. The UI is native AppKit (NSTableView, NSOutlineView, NSPanel, etc.) driven from C#/.NET via P/Invoke. It uses real Cocoa controls, not HTML/CSS in a Webview. The app doesn't phone home except for checking if there is a new version (and only does this in the registered version) and the only information sent is the current version number.

Post by whimbyte » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 12:59 PM UTC

thx67 wrote: post #71

whimbyte wrote: post #70

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There's no web renderer at all. The UI is native AppKit (NSTableView, NSOutlineView, NSPanel, etc.) driven from C#/.NET via P/Invoke. It uses real Cocoa controls, not HTML/CSS in a Webview. The app doesn't phone home except for checking if there is a new version (and only does this in the registered version) and the only information sent is the current version number.

Thank you for supplying all that info. I wasn't implying your app did anything nefarious, just the kinds of things I would like to see on an App Nutrition label. That is cool that you wrote it in .NET, any hiccups with that stack? I did some MacDev using Lua like 15 years ago, it worked out pretty well.

Post by lurkercodemnky » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 4:25 PM UTC

217 wrote: post #18

aagd wrote: post #11

Why would anyone trust an app from an anonymous source access their whole filesystem with read/write access? Who are you hello@whimfiles.com and where are you from?

nothing beside the lack of willing is stopping you from removing its internet access before giving it the file system permissions

Post by flyingshelf » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 8:17 AM UTC

zuhsetaqi wrote: post #72

flyingshelf wrote: post #65

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Not anymore, I suppose: https://imgur.com/a/cGxXBiN I just took this screenshot in macOS 18, same view (gallery)

In the Menu Bar of the Finder go to View -> Show Preview Options, then you get a dialog where you can select which info should be shown in the preview.

Post by jaffa2 » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 9:12 AM UTC

frizlab wrote: post #54

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Is there any way to stop /prevent it enumerating tif files over the network ? When i open a directory of 400 30MB tif files it grinds to a halt while it thumbnails them all over the network. Its unusable.

AFAIK, yes. `cmd-J` -> Uncheck “Show icon preview” Hopefully it’s enough, but I haven’t tried.