Sigma File Manager is a free, open-source, modern file manager designed to provide fast, intuitive, and feature-rich navigation and organization of files and folders on Windows and Linux systems. Built with cutting-edge technologies, it aims to enhance productivity while maintaining simplicity and ease of use.
Key Features:
Smart Global Search: Quickly locate files and folders in seconds, even across large drives, with advanced typo correction and search optimization.
Tabs and Split View: Maintain multiple directories open simultaneously, switch between them effortlessly, and work efficiently in split panes for independent navigation and file transfers.
Extensions and Marketplace: Customize the experience by installing extensions from a built-in marketplace or local folders, adding commands, shortcuts, settings, and more.
LAN File Sharing: Share files and folders over local networks with browser access, QR codes, and FTP support for seamless collaboration.
Address Bar Navigation: Navigate effortlessly using keyboard shortcuts and autocomplete features to quickly jump to parent folders or specific locations.
Item Filter and Smart Drag & Drop: Narrow down large directories with glob patterns and property filters, and enjoy a comfortable experience for moving, copying, or handling web drops of files.
Audience & Benefit:
Ideal for everyday users, power users, and IT professionals seeking a reliable, customizable, and high-performance file manager. Sigma File Manager enhances efficiency by streamlining file organization, search, and management, while its open-source nature ensures transparency and community-driven innovation. It can be installed via winget for easy setup on supported platforms.
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⚡Latest news
v2 became the main branch
v2 moved from alpha to beta stage
Sigma File Manager
"Sigma File Manager" is a free, open-source, quickly evolving, modern file manager (explorer / finder) app for Windows and Linux.
Smart global search: Finds files and folders in seconds (searches full 1TB drive in ~2 seconds). Its typo correction system handles typos, wrong case, wrong word order, missing words, missing symbols, and missing file extension.
Tabs: Keep multiple directories open and switch between them instantly.
Split view: Any tab can be splitted into 2 panes which you can navigate indipendently and transfer files between them easily.
Extensions and marketplace: Install extensions from the built-in marketplace or local folders. Extensions can add commands, pages, shortcuts, settings, and more.
Default file manager: On Windows, Sigma can replace File Explorer for most everyday file actions.
LAN file sharing: Share or stream files and folders over your local network, with browser access, QR codes, and FTP support.
Network locations (Alpha stage): Connect to remote locations such as SSHFS, NFS, SMB, and CIFS.
Address bar: Navigate with the keyboard, autocomplete paths, and quickly jump to parent folders.
Item filter: Narrow large folders with glob patterns and property filters for size, dates, MIME type, and more.
Smart drag and drop: Move or copy local files more comfortably, and handle web drops more smoothly.
Shortcuts and command palette: Most actions are keyboard-friendly, with global shortcuts and a fast command palette for app and extension commands.
Home banner and visual effects: Personalize the UI with custom images, videos, built-in artwork, transparency, blend modes, and other style controls.
Dashboard and quick access: Reach favorites, tagged files, most visited locations, and history data from one central area.
Tags: Organize your files and folders with tags.
Zip archives: Compress files into .zip archives and extract them without leaving the app.
In-app updates: Download and install updates directly from update notifications.
Quick view: Instantly preview images, videos, audio, PDFs, and text files with Space, then move through files without opening external apps.
WSL drives: On Windows, browse detected WSL distributions directly in the navigator.
Localization: The app has translations for all most used languages.
And more. Extensions provide additional features like video downloading (1000+ sites supported, including YouTube, Twitch, etc.), media converter, image size optimizer, etc.
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Download & install
⚡ Requirements:
OS: 64-bit: Windows, Linux, MacOS is supported but builds are not provided;
Platform
Link
Windows | Winget
winget install sfm
Windows | Microsoft store
Soon
Windows | Unsigned installable (might see antivirus errors)
<a href="https://github.com/aleksey-hoffman/sigma-file-manager/releases/latest">
Installable (.exe)
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Linux | Portable (experimental)
<a href="https://github.com/aleksey-hoffman/sigma-file-manager/releases/latest">
Portable (.AppImage)
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Linux | Snapcraft
Soon
If there's no compiled binary for your MacOS, Linux distro, you can build the app from the source code yourself
<a href="https://github.com/aleksey-hoffman/sigma-file-manager/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md">
See this guide
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Linux utility for integrating AppImages into the system (launcher, dock)
<a href="https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher">
AppImageLauncher
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For developers
If you'd like to contribute your skills to improve this project, follow this guide: CONTRIBUTING.md
Sigma File Manager
