Windows Explorer,
without the noise.

Configurable trees.

You manually define the roots you want to see. Filesystem and registry side by side. No sidebar full of items you never open.

Multi-pattern search with wildcards in any position.

Type *.cs *.json and get OR semantics. ?onfig.json, Test*Run.cs — all work.

Search across profiles, with explicit opt-in.

Right-click a tab → "Include in global search". The dot indicator (●/○) shows what's in. The results open right in ExplorerFocus — in this window or a new one, on the chosen file.

Copy, move, delete — with real information.

Floating window shows per-file gauge, real speed, ETA, global count. Pause, resume, cancel. Up to 6 parallel operations. Get on with your life while it runs.

6-way.

Overwrite / Skip / Duplicate, individually or in bulk for the rest of the operation.

Between tabs.

Drag a file to a tab and the tab switches on its own after 600ms. Copy/Move dialog on drop.

Auto-detect new extensions. Shared across profiles.

Enter a folder with .dwg, .psd, .bak? An aggregated dialog asks once. Per-row picker (browse to the .exe; name auto-resolved by FileVersionInfo). Mark as ignored those you don't care about. The list persists.

CMD, PowerShell, Git Bash — here, now.

In any tree folder. Normal and elevated variants. regedit on registry keys.

Sensible skeletons.

.cs, .xaml, .json, .md, .cmd, .ps1 — start with the typical structure. The name is highlighted without erasing the extension while typing.

Dark or light, instantly.

One button, next to PREMIUM: dark, light or like Windows, without restarting. In light mode, two sliders set the white of the background and the darkness of the text. Each window keeps its own.

Remembers everything.

Geometry of the main window and the operations window. Last active tab. Tree pane width. Column sort. Tree state. All in %LOCALAPPDATA%\ExplorerFocus.

Properties without a click.

A 1.8s tooltip over any file shows computed size, dates, attributes. Folders carry the recursive size — computed lazily, with a semaphore to avoid hammering the disk.

Folders first, always.

A custom comparer guarantees directories stay on top of any sort, in any column, in any direction. As it should be.

Smart selection.

Normal click selects. Shift+click extends with "majority decides" semantics — if the range is mostly already selected, it unmarks; otherwise it marks. Ctrl+click toggles individually. No more "I lost all selections by accident".

A single .exe. No installer.

Self-contained, single-file, compressed and digitally signed. Copy to a flash drive and it runs on any 64-bit Windows 11. It also runs on Windows 10 version 1809 or later, without support. No .NET to install. net10.0-windows + WPF — no dependencies outside the executable's folder.

The whole app, in sixteen languages.

Not just the menus — every dialog, every message, every tooltip. Pick one and the interface changes on the spot: nothing to restart, nothing to reinstall.

Click a disk and it says exactly what it is.

Manufacturer, model, firmware and serial number. Platter or solid state — and it says which, because a platter pays a seek penalty. Bus, sector size, partition scheme, the device underneath. What the file system really supports: EFS, per-file compression, hard links, junctions and symbolic links, sparse files, quotas, ACLs, the USN change journal, case sensitivity. And SMART data, when the disk gives it.

Everything the machine knows about itself — and never shows.

Firmware identity and serial numbers, when the machine was built, what is soldered to the board, the memory slot by slot, and how Windows was installed. Read-only: it never goes online and never asks for elevation.

Which program is holding this file?

Windows says the file is open somewhere and never says where. This one knows, because it lives inside the explorer. It also answers three questions the system's own manager doesn't: what runs from your user folder, what is not signed, and which of two copies of the same program is which version. Ending a process asks first — with the name, the PID and the window title — and the ones that would blue-screen the machine have no button at all.

SFTP, FTP/FTPS and WebDAV — the explorer reaches the server.

Connect to SFTP, FTP/FTPS and WebDAV (Nextcloud, ownCloud, NAS, IIS). Browse, preview, upload and download, create folders, rename and copy/move — with byte-level progress and cancel. Edit remote files locally and sync on save. Password or SSH key auth; secrets encrypted with DPAPI.

Free: 1 SFTP/FTP/FTPS connection — browse and preview only. PREMIUM unlocks WebDAV, multiple connections and all operations.

Dropbox and OneDrive — your cloud inside the explorer.

Connect to Dropbox and OneDrive via secure OAuth — no passwords stored. Browse, preview, upload and download, create folders, rename and copy/move, like a local folder. Your files never pass through our servers.

PREMIUM: required from the first connection — browsing, preview and all operations.

Eight book formats — preview and read, without leaving the explorer.

Instant preview of any .epub, .mobi, .azw, .azw3, .prc or .fb2: cover, table of contents and the opening text. Open the full book in its own reader, with chapter navigation, page jump, auto-scroll and your reading position remembered. Comics too: .cbz and .cbr open page by page, without unpacking hundreds of megabytes first.

Paper mode. The same book, another look: two facing pages, the spine down the middle, paper with grain and lamp light, and the sheet folding under your hand as it turns. One button cycles plain · paper · night paper, and plain stays the default. It does not become a real book — no texture, no sound of the page, no smell, none of the weight of picking it up and putting it down — but a screen can come close. What that buys is comfort, and comfort is personal: everyone reads better in their own way. This is simply one more.

The E-books button. Select a book and the E-books button lights up at the top: open it in the reader, convert it between EPUB, PDF and FB2, or translate the whole book. Comics (CBZ, CBR) become a PDF or a fixed-layout EPUB, and a PDF becomes an e-book, with the chapters from its bookmarks.

Free: preview — cover, contents and a first look inside.
PREMIUM: full reader — navigation, page jump, auto-scroll, paper mode, page-turn and memory of your last 20 books — and the E-books button. Books you own open. Books bought with DRM stay locked to the store that sold them — the app explains why when it finds one.

Word, Excel, PowerPoint and more — see without opening anything.

Preview Word (.doc/.docx), Excel, PowerPoint, RTF and OpenDocument (text, sheet and presentation) right in the pane. Audio and video play in the preview, with a floating window and volume/speed controls. A marker flags files that have a preview; password-protected files are flagged without asking for the password.

Record the microphone straight into the folder.

One click records the microphone into the current folder. Pick the microphone, watch the live level meter, adjust the recording volume and save as MP3, AAC, WMA, WAV, FLAC or ALAC.

Record the camera straight into the folder.

Live camera preview, with a choice of camera and microphone, resolution and format — MP4, WMV or AVI. Saves into the current folder with one click.

Free with a discreet footer watermark. PREMIUM: no watermark.

From the scanner into the folder — image or PDF.

Scan from the flatbed or the feeder (ADF), many sheets at once. Choose the resolution and colour — colour, grayscale or black & white. Save as JPEG/PNG or merge everything into a multi-page PDF, and keep adding sheets to the same PDF.

Free: 1 flatbed page, with a watermark. PREMIUM: multiple pages, feeder (ADF) and no watermark.

Open ZIP, RAR, 7z and TAR like folders.

Double-click (or Browse inside) to enter the archive — browse the contents, preview and copy files out without extracting everything. Read-only; Open with… still opens them in WinRAR/WinZip/7-Zip.

Record the screen straight into the folder — with an optional camera.

Pick a region of any monitor (or the whole screen) and record to MP4 with the microphone. Add the camera: switch screen⇄camera with transitions (fade, wipe, slide, mosaic), show it as PiP in a corner, or side by side in split screen.

Free: watermark + 15 s and no sound. PREMIUM: no watermark, no time limit and with sound (microphone + system).

Intro and end cards for your videos — right in the recording.

Give your recordings (screen and camera) an intro card, a permanent text banner and a credits-style end card (up to 10 lines). 5 independent models, each with 3 presentations, logo, background colour and an episode badge — built for a consistent video series.

PREMIUM. Discreet “Made with ExplorerFocus” signature on the end card.

Narrate your videos after recording — even on your own.

Record the screen silently, then in a dedicated box play the video while you narrate over it. The narration lands in a separate file; add background music, balance the volumes (so the music won't drown the voice) and generate the final video with all three sources.

PREMIUM. The video and narration stay as separate files; only “Generate final” creates the mixed video.

Cut, split and join audio — without opening an editor.

Select an audio file and the Audio button lights up at the top. Cut a section while listening, split it into parts at the points you mark or into equal parts, join several into one — even of different formats — and change format in one click: MP3, AAC, WMA, WAV, FLAC or ALAC. MP3 tags (title, artist, album and cover) are written into the file itself, without touching the sound. In Adjust the audio…: the volume and normalize, the speed without changing pitch, fade in and out, trimming the silence at the start and end, and shortening the pauses of a voice recording. The original stays as it is.

X-ray and transcription. The Audio X-ray… shows the format, the channels, the tags and every metadata field, and Transcribe… turns a recording into text.

Free: cut, split, join, change format, MP3 tags and the Audio X-ray.
PREMIUM: Transcribe… and Adjust the audio… Both open for everyone: you see and hear what they do before you have PREMIUM.

Cut, rotate, shrink and adjust videos — right where they are.

Select a video and the Video button lights up. Cut a section or take one out of the middle, split into 30-second parts for statuses and stories, join several into one, rotate a video filmed sideways — an MP4 without losing any quality — and save a frame as a JPG without stopping the video. The video's sound goes out to MP3, AAC, WMA, WAV, FLAC or ALAC, or you keep a copy without sound. With PREMIUM: convert or shrink to fit WhatsApp — the box tells you how big it will be before converting — a light GIF of a section, the video in reverse, add a sound (music or narration), and Adjust the video…: colours and black and white, speed from 0.25× to 4× without the voice changing, fade in from and out to black, the volume, the 9:16 crop for social media, the mirror and the watermark — all in one pass, and seen before saving. The original stays as it is.

X-ray, 5.1 and subtitles. The Video X-ray… says everything the file contains and, when it won't play on this computer, why and what to do. In a 5.1 film, Audio 2.0 puts the voices on both speakers while you watch, and Convert the sound to stereo saves a copy that way. Subtitles that come with the video show in the preview; to create and translate them, see Listen and write.

Free: cut, split, join, rotate, save a frame, the video's sound, the Video X-ray, Audio 2.0 and watching subtitles.
PREMIUM: convert or shrink, GIF, Adjust the video…, reverse, add a sound and convert the sound to stereo. Also inside a vault: the result is born in there, encrypted, and nothing is left in the clear on the disk (saving the sound as FLAC is the exception, and the app explains why).

What a photo carries hidden — and the tools to deal with it.

Select an image and the Image button lights up. Photo X-ray shows what it carries hidden — where it was taken, the camera and its serial number, the dates, and the hidden thumbnail that sometimes still shows what was cropped out — and saves a copy with only what you choose. It also says whether the image declares it was made or edited with AI, and with which program, and Near… names the town without going online. Then: crop and straighten a crooked horizon, shrink to send to the size you want, rotate and flip — a JPG without losing any quality — change format (iPhone HEIC to JPG in one click, and even Windows .ico icons), copy the image to paste it into WhatsApp, and Ctrl+V in a folder turns a screenshot into a file. With PREMIUM: copy the text from an image, cover what's private (emails, phone numbers, IBANs, cards and faces), join and split images, and the transparent background. The original stays as it is.

Free: the X-ray, crop, shrink, rotate and flip, change format (with ICO), copy, and paste as a file.
PREMIUM: copy the text, cover what's private, join, split and transparent background. No AI mark doesn't mean the image is real: many don't carry one. Cover finds a lot, but always check before sending. Show on map… asks first, because then the coordinates go to OpenStreetMap. Place names come from GeoNames (geonames.org), CC BY 4.0 — the full credit is under Stack.

Merge, split and tidy up PDFs — right where they are.

Select a PDF and the PDF button lights up at the top. Merge several into one, split by page ranges (1-3, 5, 8-), or organize the pages on thumbnails: rotate, delete, reorder, or pull a few out into a new PDF. Turn pages into JPG or PNG images, add or remove a password, and convert JPG/PNG images and simple Word documents to PDF — or put several photos on one A4 page, in the order of the list, seeing the PDF on the right as it will be, page by page. The original is never touched: every result is a new PDF right beside it, with its bookmarks and document details carried over. Nothing is uploaded anywhere.

X-ray, text and translation. The PDF X-ray… shows the pages, the text, the protection, the fonts, the forms, the signatures, the attachments and the JavaScript. Recognize the text (OCR)… makes a scanned PDF searchable and copyable, Translate the PDF… puts it into another language, and Convert to e-book (EPUB, FB2)… turns it into a book that flows.

Free: merge, split and the PDF X-ray.
PREMIUM: organize pages, PDF to images, add or remove a password, convert to PDF (several photos per page too), recognize the text, translate and turn into an e-book. A password-protected or damaged PDF is reported, and nothing half-made is left behind. Works inside an encrypted vault too, through its drive letter.