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24 alternatives to My First OSS Project, Classic Finder
Everything you loved about navigating files on your Macintosh Performa, Quadra, LC or Power Macintosh. Download an open-source clone of the original Macintosh Finder.
Classic Finder is an open-source recreation of the original Macintosh Finder file navigation interface built in Objective-C and Cocoa. It provides a pixel-for-pixel clone of the classic Mac OS Finder that runs on… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. My First OSS Project, Classic Finder launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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The workflow enhancing Finder extension for Mac
2018 · fiplab.com · its alternatives →
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Gemini 2.0▲301The intelligent duplicate file finder for your Mac
2016 · macpaw.com · its alternatives →
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Search nearly a million icons. Now in color!
2017 · thenounproject.com · its alternatives →
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Flinto for Mac▲481The prototyping tool designers have been waiting for
2015 · flinto.com · its alternatives →
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macintosh.js▲198A 1991 Macintosh in an app - for Windows, Linux, and macOS
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Fast, reliable, and free document scanner app for iPhone - pencilresearch/OpenScanner
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Tidy▲98Spotlight returns nothing for words you know are in a scanned document. It is not a bug: a scan has no text layer, so there is nothing to index. How to check, and three ways to make those documents searchable on a Mac.
Jul 2026 · tidymacapp.com · its alternatives →
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QuickRight▲97The missing right-click features for macOS Finder
May 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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DockDuck▲97The native macOS file manager Finder should be
Aug 2026 · dockduck.app · its alternatives →
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A simple, freeware duplicate finder for Mac
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Effortless image to text conversion for Mac
2024 · getsnipit.com · its alternatives →
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Scan documents and digitize them flawlessly on your Mac
2020 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Bloom▲151Refined Finder experience, reimagined for productivity
2025 · bloomapp.club · its alternatives →
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I'm a iOS and Mac developer and the thing that mostly bothered me when I first started learning Cocoa programming was the lack of full featured sample code. Now things have changed and more projects have been released, but I still want to do my part. I've already released Color Picker Pro for Mac: https://raw.github.com/oscardelben/Color-Picker-Pro This time I built a copy of the iPhone Calculator which (I hope) will be simple to follow for beginners: https://github.com/oscardelben/iPhoneCalculator I hope this will be useful to people who are learning Cocoa. Feedbacks are very appreciated.
2011 · raw.github.com · its alternatives →
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Substage▲183Hey all! I’m a solo indie dev and I’ve been working on Substage – a Mac app that docks under your Finder window and lets you interact with your files using natural language. Stuff like: • Convert to webp • zip these up • Author of this PDF? • Download this file: • Is this really a PNG? • What's 5 foot 9 in cm? • Open in TextMate Substage converts your prompt into a Terminal command using an LLM (GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini, Mistral, or your own local model), runs it, and summarises the output. If it detects something risky, it’ll pause for confirmation before running. Commands run locally on your…
2025 · selkie.design · its alternatives →
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Modern macOS versions open folders in seemingly random positions and sizes. This set of scripts restores the behaviour known to classic macOS, where: - folders remember where they were on the screen - folders remember how big they were This enables you to utilise the brain's superb spatial memory for file management.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Foldr for MacOS▲111A Finder extension to create folders with custom icons
Jan 2026 · matisandoval.com · its alternatives →
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EasyFinder▲108Mac menu bar app to help access your important files fast
2019 · easyfinderapp.com · its alternatives →
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Initiater▲76Extract text from images and digital documents in seconds
2021 · blue-tail.com · its alternatives →
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