If you’re switching to macOS from Linux or Windows, you might be familiar with some of the annoyances macOS’s Finder comes with. For example, you can’t navigate to folders using your keyboard easily, there is no path bar by default, and there is no dual-pane view.
These are the things that come out of the box in File Managers in Windows/Linux, but they are hard to come by in macOS. So, utilities like Marta—a third-party macOS app—help you overcome these annoyances.
Marta is a free (but not open-source) File Manager for macOS (written entirely in Swift) that can replace the Finder in your day-to-day workflow.
It mitigates all the issues of macOS Finder I mentioned earlier—keyboard navigation, dual pane, etc.—and is extremely customizable. It has nice dark and light themes.
One of the best features of Marta though is the action panel that you can trigger using Cmd + P that you can use to perform any action or find files which are pretty convenient.
Apart from this, it works with archives like folders. Marta opens and writes ZIP archives and opens RAR, 7Z, XAR, TAR, ISO, CAB, LZH, and many more formats and it also comes with an in-built terminal with a two-way directory synchronization right from a file pane.
All-in-all, I found Marta quite intuitive, and currently, I’m trying to replace it with Finder to some extent in my workflow.
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