Captain's Deck is a dual-pane file manager designed specifically for macOS, targeting users who prefer keyboard-driven workflows over mouse-based navigation. Built natively in Swift and AppKit, it adopts an orthodox file manager approach with side-by-side directory panes, enabling users to copy, move, and compare files between locations using keyboard shortcuts. The interface is tailored for those who value efficiency and speed, offering both vim-style hjkl navigation and traditional arrow keys, as well as discoverable shortcut overlays.
A notable feature of Captain's Deck is its fully integrated terminal, which embeds a real PTY directly within the application window. The terminal synchronizes with the active pane, so navigating directories in the graphical interface automatically updates the shell location, and vice versa, using OSC 7 synchronization. Users' custom shell environments, including their zsh configuration, aliases, and prompts, are fully supported within the built-in terminal.
The tool provides extensive support for remote storage, allowing users to mount and browse SFTP, FTP, SMB, AFP, NFS, WebDAV, Amazon S3, MinIO, DigitalOcean Spaces, Backblaze B2, Google Drive, OneDrive, and Dropbox as if they were local directories. Credentials for these services are securely stored in the macOS Keychain. Captain's Deck also offers built-in Git integration, displaying file status (modified, staged, untracked, ignored) directly in the pane and supporting staging, committing, and reverting actions without leaving the file manager.
Additional capabilities include hybrid search that combines Spotlight metadata with deep grep searches, regex support inside files, and the ability to treat archive formats such as ZIP, 7z, RAR, TAR, GZ, BZ2, and XZ as browsable folders. The application is optimized for performance, with a high-performance C++ core, lazy-loading for directories containing over a million files, and minimal idle CPU usage. It is delivered as a universal binary for macOS 14 and above, supporting both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs. 99.
Captain's Deck is a Productivity & Work product. It provides Mac users with a dual-pane file manager for efficient file organization, navigation, and remote storage access. It is built as a consumer product for macOS power users. Captain's Deck is a paid product starting at $22. It runs on the web, the command line, iOS, and macOS.
It is developed by Captain's Deck. Key capabilities include dual-pane file manager, keyboard navigation, and built-in terminal.
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