Window & Workspace

• Single, dual, triple, quad pane layouts (Pro mode supports 2–4)
• Up to four panes per window — add or remove from the toolbar any time
• Real tabs per pane: tear-off, drag between panes, restore last session
• ⌘⇧T to reopen the last closed tab
• Per-window sidebar that can be hidden, reordered, and grouped
• Status bar with selection size and active transfers
• Inspector panel (Pro): preview, metadata, tags, git status, EXIF
• Three density presets: Comfortable, Cozy, Compact
• Light, dark, auto, and tinted themes
• Per-pane font size

Navigation

• Editable address bar (⌘L) — paste paths, drag folders, tokenized breadcrumbs
• "Go to path…" (⌘⇧G) accepting ~, env vars, relative paths
• Forward / back history per tab
• Type-to-select in any view; backspace to navigate up
• Open in Terminal (auto-detect Terminal / iTerm)
• Open in VS Code, Xcode, or your default editor (auto-detected)
• Reveal in Finder

Command Palette & Global Launcher

• ⌘K to open the in-window command palette
• ⌘⇧Space to open the global launcher from any app — files, folders, apps, recents, favourites, calculator, clipboard history, web search
• ⌃⇧Space to bring the main window forward (or open one if you closed it)
• Fuzzy-matched search across actions, recent paths, favourites, open tabs, remote connections, smart folders, git operations, and installed Mac apps
• Calculator: type 12 * 30 / 7, ⏎ copies the result
• Web search: ?<query> opens DuckDuckGo (configurable); bare URLs open directly
• Clipboard history: search and re-paste anything from your last 50 copies
• Every menu action and rebindable shortcut is reachable here
• See the dedicated Launcher page for the full pitch

AI (optional, opt-in)

• Off by default. Seek works fully without it.
• Four providers: Local (Ollama / llama.cpp auto-detected), OpenAI-compatible, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock
• Read-only verbs only: open / reveal / search / snippet / connection / answer
• Path allowlist: AI can only suggest paths you've already opened (recents + favourites)
• Streamed responses for diff and commit summaries
• No telemetry; direct connection to your provider
• See the dedicated AI page for the breakdown

File Operations

• Cut / Copy / Paste / Move (⌘X = cut)
• Drag-and-drop with file promises across volumes
• Bulk rename with live preview: regex, sequence, find/replace, case change, EXIF-based, prefix/suffix
• New File (⌥⌘N) — type any name, no auto-extension. Power-user friendly: Makefile, .gitignore, Dockerfile all work as typed
• New file from template (md, txt, swift, py, json…) with editable templates folder
• "New folder with selection inside" (⌘⌃N)
• Trash / Empty trash / Secure delete option
• Compare folders (left vs right)
• Sync folders (one-way and two-way) with dry-run preview
• Symlink and hardlink creation with explicit UI

Transfer Queue

• Pause, resume, retry, reorder
• Per-transfer bandwidth throttle
• Parallel jobs with configurable concurrency
• Conflict resolution: skip / replace / keep both / merge folders / "always do this"
• Errors don't kill the queue
• Resumable on reconnect for supported protocols

Search

• Spotlight-backed instant search
• In-folder fallback for non-Spotlight locations (e.g. remotes)
• Filter chips: kind, size, modified, tag, content match
• Saved searches → Smart Folders, live-updating
• Search scope: current folder, all open tabs, everywhere

Remote Protocols

Available now

• SFTP — SSH key + password, agent forwarding, jump hosts via ~/.ssh/config
• FTP / FTPS — passive-mode, TLS-on-control-channel, anonymous + authenticated
• SMB / CIFS — Mac, Windows, NAS shares mounted via mount_smbfs
• WebDAV — Nextcloud, ownCloud, generic
• S3 + S3-compatible — AWS, Cloudflare R2, Backblaze B2, MinIO, DigitalOcean Spaces, Wasabi (hand-rolled SigV4 — no AWS SDK dependency)
• Google Drive — Drive v3 list / download / multipart upload (BYO OAuth client)
• Dropbox — API v2 list / download / upload (BYO OAuth client)
• OneDrive — Microsoft Graph list / download / small upload (BYO OAuth client; chunked upload coming for >4 MB files)

Coming soon Roadmap

• AFP / NFS / iSCSI — server-mounted protocols still on the roadmap; needs the same mount_* shell-out pattern SMB uses

Across all protocols: saved connections in Keychain, sync-to-local-cache mode for offline browsing, per-connection bandwidth throttle. S3 also gets a bucket / region picker and presigned URL generator.

Archives

• Read / extract: zip, tar, tar.gz, tar.bz2, tar.xz, rar, 7z, gz, bz2, xz
• Create: zip, tar.gz, 7z
• Browse archives inline like a folder (read-only)
• Add to existing archive (where format allows)
• Encrypted zip / 7z support

Quick Look++

• All system Quick Look extensions still work
• Built-in enhanced previews:
• Code with syntax highlighting
• Markdown rendered
• JSON / YAML / TOML pretty-printed
• EXIF / IPTC for images
• Video metadata
• Archive contents
• Hex view fallback

Inspector

• Thumbnail or full preview
• Full path with copy button
• Item size + selection total
• Permissions, owner, group
• Tags
• Git status (when applicable)
• EXIF / image metadata
• "Open with" picker

Bulk & Power

• Multi-file metadata edit (tags, comments, dates)
• Permissions UI (chmod-style + checkboxes), recursive option
• Calculate folder size in the background, cancellable
• Hidden files toggle (⌘⇧.)
• Show file extensions always
• Duplicate finder (name, size+name, content hash)
• Select Same… menu — multi-select every PDF, .swift, image, or all-folders/files-only in the current view with one click
• Clipboard history sheet (⇧⌘]) — recent text on your pasteboard, capped at 50, searchable
• Snippets / text expansion — /today, /now, /cwd, /clip and your own; <date>, <time>, <clip>, <cwd>, <home> placeholders expand on Tab inside the terminal
• Workspace snapshots — save a named pane layout (URLs, active tab, view styles, inspector state) and restore it from the command palette
• Trash History — every Seek-driven recycle is logged with size + timestamp; one-click recover
• Pin Tab — pinned tabs survive ⌘W and show a lock icon; unpin from the right-click menu
• Jump to project root — breadcrumb context menu walks up to the nearest .git, Package.swift, Cargo.toml, go.mod, pyproject.toml, package.json, pom.xml, build.gradle, Gemfile, composer.json, or mix.exs

Editor & power tools

• seek command-line tool — drops a tiny binary on $PATH so you can run seek . to open the current directory in Seek, seek file.swift to open a file in the embedded Neovim editor, seek -t path/ for a new tab, or seek -p path/ for a new pane. Install from Settings → Tools & Integration → "seek Command".
• Embedded Neovim editor — ⌘⇧E on any file opens a real nvim --embed session in a sheet. Speaks msgpack-RPC over stdin/stdout; :wq<CR> saves and closes. Honours your ~/.config/nvim/init.lua. Requires brew install neovim (Seek detects it on PATH).
• Universal Search — ⌘⇧K opens a single search field that fans out across files, settings, project actions, git refs, recents, calculator, and web. Sigils scope a query: ? settings · > content grep · ! actions · : git refs · ~ recents · = calculator · / path.
• Native terminal panel splits — vim-style ⌃⇧hjkl pane navigation with ⌃⇧D / ⌃⇧S splits and ⌃⇧Z zoom. Each pane is its own pty; no real tmux involved (you can still run tmux inside any pane).
• tmux integration — sidebar lists every running tmux session with attached/detached state. Click attaches in a new terminal tab via real tmux attach-session.

Embedded Terminal

• One terminal panel per window, multi-tab, CWD-aware
• Persistent shell history — JSONL log under ~/Library/Caches/Seek/shell_history.jsonl survives restarts
• Frecency-ranked Ctrl+R reverse search (recency × frequency × CWD-match) over the persistent log
• Up / Down with prefix — like zsh: type "git " then press Up to cycle only your past git … commands
• Tab to expand snippets — your custom triggers + the built-in placeholders
• Pop-out to your real terminal (Terminal.app / iTerm / Ghostty) — guarded if you have unsent input

Git Integration

• Repo header strip per folder: branch, ahead/behind, dirty indicator, fetch button
• Per-row status: M / A / D / R / ? / ! / U with color-coded gutter
• Dimmed .gitignored files (toggleable)
• Stash count badge on repo folders

Right-click & inspector actions

• Stage / unstage / discard / restore
• Commit with subject + body, sign-off, GPG sign
• Amend last commit (with safety guard if pushed)
• Stash push / pop / apply / drop
• Branch switch / create / delete / rename
• Pull / push / fetch with remote picker
• Merge / rebase with abort and continue UI
• Cherry-pick, revert, reset (soft / mixed / hard)
• Tag create / delete / push

• Blame view in Quick Look — line-by-line, hover for commit + author
• History view (graph, filterable, search) for file or folder
• Diff in Quick Look: file, staged-vs-working, two arbitrary refs, side-by-side or unified
• Per-hunk Stage / Unstage / Discard — toggle the Hunks panel in any diff and operate one hunk at a time, no git add -p round-trip
• Inline conflict viewer when merge markers detected
• "Open in external mergetool" hook (BBEdit, Kaleidoscope, FileMerge, VS Code)
• Sidebar group "Repos" auto-discovered
• Smart folder: "Files with uncommitted changes across all repos"
• Every git action reachable via command palette

Tags

• Read/write Spotlight tags (Finder-compatible)
• Bulk tag operations
• Tag autocomplete in inspector
• Tag-based smart folders

Customization

• Customizable columns per view, with reordering
• Per-folder remembered settings (sort, view, columns)
• Toolbar customization (drag items in/out)
• Sidebar item ordering and grouping
• Theming: light / dark / auto, accent color, optional Pro colorways
• Rebindable keyboard shortcuts

Scripting & Automation

• AppleScript dictionary: open path, list selection, get metadata, run transfer, switch mode (available now)
• Shortcuts.app actions for the same (available now)
• seek:// URL scheme for opening paths and triggering commands

Accessibility

• Full VoiceOver support — every chrome element and file row labeled, walkthrough modal traps focus and announces step transitions
• Keyboard navigation everywhere; opt-in Vim mode (j/k/h/l/gg/G) for power users
• Reduced motion respected — every spring transition collapses to identity
• Differentiate Without Color respected — git status switches to a high-contrast monochrome palette with a per-status glyph (pencil / plus / minus / arrow) augmenting the letter
• Persistent toasts toggle — disable auto-dismiss for VoiceOver users and slow readers
• Thicker focus ring opt-in — replaces the soft accent halo with a 3px solid stroke for users with low vision or focus-tracking difficulty
• Display Scale — Small / Standard / Large / Extra Large multiplier on every font size
• Starter Mode — hide advanced surfaces (Repos, Tools, Cloud Drives, Updates) so brand-new users aren't overwhelmed
• Switch Control friendly

Internationalisation

• Catalog-backed string resolution (Localizable.xcstrings)
• English source language; Japanese and Spanish seeded for high-traffic strings (walkthrough copy, common buttons, sidebar/toolbar labels)
• Right-to-left layout flip for Arabic / Hebrew / Persian / Urdu / Yiddish — applied at the window root via seekDirectionAware()
• Strings without a locale-specific translation fall back to English at runtime — partial localisation ships safely

Trust & Distribution

• Free, no account required
• Distributed via Homebrew cask (brew install --cask) and direct DMG
• No telemetry by default; opt-in crash reporting only
• Sparkle auto-updates with EdDSA-signed appcast
• macOS 14 Sonoma and newer; Apple Silicon and Intel