DockDuck

The native macOS file manager Finder should be

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The native macOS file manager Finder should be

4.0•1 review•

107 followers

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DockDuck is the native macOS file manager Finder should be — fast, beautiful, and 100% Swift. Tabs, dual-pane, a pinned Start dashboard, tags, instant search, batch rename, and connect to servers(SFTP/SMB) — all in one window that opens the moment you click. Pay once, no subscription. Your files never leave your Mac.

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DockDuck

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Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Martin, the solo developer behind DockDuck.

I've lived on a Mac for years, and Finder always felt… stuck. It barely changes, and every "alternative" was either a powerful-but-dated power tool, or an Electron app that ate my RAM and battery just to list files.

I wanted something that felt like Apple made it — fast, native, genuinely beautiful — but with the power features I actually reach for: dual-pane, connecting to servers, batch rename, tags, and a pinned dashboard for the stuff I open every day.

So I built DockDuck. 100% Swift and AppKit, zero Electron. It opens instantly, stays out of your way, and your files never leave your Mac. And it's pay-once (or yearly) — no subscription, because I'm tired of those too.

It's a free 14-day Pro trial, no card needed. And for the PH community, PRODUCTHUNT21 takes 10% off any plan until Sept 30.

This is an early launch and I'm building it in public. I'd genuinely love your feedback on what would make DockDuck your daily file manager — and I'm happy to talk about how it's built, the design decisions, any of it. 🦆

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4mo ago

Dial

congrats on shipping this solo, the "zero Electron" framing is doing a lot of work and honestly for a file manager it should - I've quit using more than one "modern Finder" alternative purely because it lagged scrolling a folder with a few thousand files. curious about the SFTP/SMB piece though - when you save server credentials, are those going into the macOS Keychain or do you roll your own storage for that? that's usually the detail that decides whether I trust a new file manager with my actual server logins or just use it for local stuff.

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2mo ago

DockDuck

Maker

@galdayan Thanks! And good question - it's the real macOS Keychain, not my own storage. Each saved server gets a standard generic-password Keychain item (you can see them in Keychain Access under app.dockduck.server), stored with when-unlocked accessibility so they're not readable pre-unlock after a reboot. The connection metadata (host, user, port) lives in app preferences, but the password never gets written there, even if you paste a full sftp://user:pass@host URL, the password portion is split off and goes straight to the Keychain. Saving the password is also optional; you can just get prompted each time.

Rolling my own credential storage would've gone against the whole premise of the app - the point of zero-Electron/all-native is that you get to lean on the platform's security primitives instead of reinventing them.

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2mo ago

Hey @mnemosynee Martin, I have quietly resented Finder for years and long since stopped expecting better, so watching someone finally give it a proper rival feels good.

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2mo ago

DockDuck

Maker

@jean_noel_escande Thank you =), that's exactly the itch that started this. I kept waiting for Finder to get its "Apple redesigns their own app" moment and eventually decided to stop waiting. If there's a Finder frustration you've been quietly carrying for years, I'd genuinely love to hear it, those grudges make the best feature list.

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2mo ago

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7d ago

DockDuck 1.1.7 is out 🎉

This release is about getting files out of your Mac: to other people, off a full disk, and in from your iPhone.

Send a file as a link

Select a file, choose Share Link, and DockDuck gives you a link to send to anyone. They open it in any browser, with no app and no account. The file is encrypted on your Mac before it leaves, so nobody else can read it, not even us. A link holds up to 2 GB, and several files or a folder travel as one zip.

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21d ago

DockDuck 1.1.5 is out 🎉

This release is about giving you more than two folders at once, and about folders that keep themselves tidy.

Up to six panes in one window

Split a window into one to six panes, each with its own folder, its own view mode and its own terminal if you use that. Pick the arrangement from the toolbar, or press Control Command and the number of panes you want.

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29d ago

DockDuck 1.1.3 is out 🎉

This release is about doing more with fewer clicks, and making the app yours. A good part of it came straight from your reports and requests, so thank you for that.

Here is what's new.