Everything DockBird does, in one list.
Small app, complete workflow. Each item below is in the current release, version 0.1.1; things we are still building live on the changelog.
Browsing
- Two panes
- A local folder on the left, a server on the right, in one window. Resize the split or hide the sidebar.
- Tabs and windows
- ⌘T opens a tab, ⌥⌘N a window. Each tab is its own session with its own connection.
- Sort and filter
- Sort by name, size or modified date; folders stay first. ⌘F filters the listing by name and the footer reports “4 of 12 items”.
- Hideable columns
- Permissions, owner, group and storage class are a right-click away. Widths and order are remembered per pane.
- Quick Look
- Press Space on a remote file to preview it. DockBird fetches it to a temporary cache and shows the standard macOS preview.
- Get Info
- ⌘I opens an inspector with kind, size, date, location, a copyable URL and a permissions editor. Select several files to see totals.
- Go to folder
- ⇧⌘G lets you type a path. ⌘↑, ⌘↓ and ⌘[ move around like Finder.
- Hidden files
- ⇧⌘. toggles dotfiles in both panes.
Transfers
- Drag and drop everywhere
- Between panes, onto a folder row, from Finder into a server, or from a server onto the Desktop.
- Folder expansion
- A dropped folder is planned into per-file jobs before anything starts, so progress and errors are per file.
- Conflict handling
- Replace, Skip or Keep Both when a file exists, with “Apply to all remaining”. Keep Both names files Finder-style: “report 2.pdf”.
- Skip unchanged
- An option skips files with the same size whose destination copy is not older, which makes re-uploads fast.
- Transfers panel
- Opens while jobs run, folds into a one-line status bar afterwards. Badge counts for active and failed jobs.
- Auto refresh
- The destination pane reloads when a batch completes.
- Cancel cleanly
- Cancelling a download leaves no partial file behind.
Security and privacy
- Keychain
- Passwords, key passphrases and secret keys are stored in the macOS Keychain, not in a config file.
- Host key verification
- SSH servers show a SHA-256 fingerprint on first connect; accepted keys are stored per host and mismatches prompt again.
- Certificate trust
- FTPS and WebDAV certificates are checked against the system roots; self-signed ones can be trusted on first use by fingerprint.
- App Sandbox
- DockBird only touches folders you pick, and remembers them with security-scoped bookmarks.
- Analytics you can read in one line
- Two anonymous signals — that the app started, and which protocol you connected with. Never your servers, usernames, files or paths. One switch in Settings turns them off.
- Encrypted by default
- SFTP, FTPS and HTTPS WebDAV encrypt everything. Plain FTP and http:// are allowed but labelled.
Protocols
- SFTP
- Password or ed25519 and RSA keys, chmod, symlinks, sftp:// links.
- FTP and FTPS
- Passive mode, MLSD listings, SITE CHMOD, explicit TLS with certificate prompts, a pooled connection so browsing never blocks.
- WebDAV and Nextcloud
- Basic, Digest and NTLM auth, redirect-safe requests, overwrite-protected moves, automatic Nextcloud DAV paths.
- S3 and compatible
- Nine presets, all-buckets browsing, prefix folders, multipart transfers, recursive delete, AWS CLI profiles, path-style addressing.
Connections
Every tile in the New Connection sheet has its own page with setup steps and limits.
Keyboard shortcuts
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| ⌘N | New connection |
| ⌘T | New tab |
| ⌘O | Open local folder |
| ⇧⌘N | New folder |
| ⌘⌫ | Delete |
| ↩ | Rename |
| ⌘I | Get Info |
| Space | Quick Look |
| ⌘↑ | Enclosing folder |
| ⌘↓ | Open selected folder |
| ⌘[ | Back |
| ⇧⌘G | Go to folder |
| ⌘1 / ⌘2 | Focus local / remote pane |
| ⌘R | Refresh |
| ⌘F | Filter listing |
| ⇧⌘. | Show hidden files |
| ⌥⌘T | Show transfers |
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macOS 15 Sequoia or later. Apple silicon and Intel.