Treewise

Windows Explorer’s way of working, in a real Mac app.

A folder tree you can open to any depth, an address bar, cut and paste, and two windows side by side. Made for people who learned files on Windows and now work on a Mac.

Download for Mac Free while in beta. Needs macOS 15 or later.

• Find your way

  • A folder tree with your favorites, your disks, your home folder and your cloud folders, open to any depth.
  • An address bar with the path as buttons, a menu of subfolders behind each arrow, and room to type a path with ⌘L.
  • A command bar with New, Cut, Copy, Paste, Rename, Share, Move to Trash and Open in Terminal, and Sort and View menus.
  • Your own favorites. Add any folder, drag to reorder, and remove one without touching the folder.
  • A details pane with a preview and the kind, size, date and folder of what you select, and list or icon view with Quick Look on Space.

  

• Move your files

  • Cut, copy and paste with ⌘X, ⌘C and ⌘V, also between windows and Finder.
  • Two windows side by side with ⌥⌘N: open a folder in the other window, drag between them, or send the selection across.
  • Dragging that says what it will do. On the same disk it moves, to another disk it copies; ⌥ always copies, ⌘ always moves.
  • Undo with ⌘Z for move, copy, rename, new folder and Move to Trash, in any window.
  • Tabs as in Finder, and every window and tab comes back after a restart.

  

• Work with the cloud and the command line

  • Cloud folders such as Dropbox, OneDrive and iCloud Drive appear by themselves.
  • A cloud icon marks a file that is only online, and a ring shows its download. Browsing a folder downloads nothing.
  • Open in Terminal with ⌃⌘T, in Terminal, iTerm, Ghostty, Warp, kitty or Alacritty.

• Install

  Download the disk image, open it and drag Treewise onto Applications. It is signed and notarized by Apple, so it opens without a warning.

  Or use Homebrew:

  brew install --cask mag243/tap/treewise

  All versions and what changed in each

• Updates and privacy

  Treewise checks for a new version once a day and asks before it installs one. You can turn this off in Settings. The check only reads a list of versions from this site and sends nothing about you or your Mac.

  Every update is signed twice, by Apple’s Developer ID and by Treewise’s own update key, and installs only when both check out.

• Requirements and removing it

  Treewise needs macOS 15 Sequoia or later, on Apple silicon or Intel. It speaks English, Dutch and German, following your system language.

  To remove it, drag it from Applications to the Trash. With Homebrew, brew uninstall --zap --cask treewise also removes its settings.

• Feedback

  Found a bug, or missing something from Explorer? Open an issue.

Treewise is in beta. It always deletes through the Trash, but keep a backup of anything you cannot lose.