EmpiricCommander File Manager

EmpiricCommander File Manager

Dual-pane SFTP, SSH and Git

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  • Released
  • Updated
  • May 13, 2026
  • September 10, 2026

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A real file manager for iPad - and for Mac and iPhone. Two panes side by side, drag between them, and move files where they belong without exporting or round-tripping through the Files app. PHOTOS OFF YOUR PHONE The Files app cannot see your photo library. EmpiricCommander can: browse your albums like folders and copy them to a USB-C drive, your NAS, SFTP, S3 - any destination, no account required. Originals are copied byte for byte with EXIF and location intact, a second run copies only what is new, and Free Up Space deletes a photo only after the copy has been read back and verified. THE WHOLE LOOP, NO MAC NEEDED Clone a repository over HTTPS or SSH, open a file in the built-in editor with syntax highlighting, stage your changes, commit, and push - on iPad and iPhone, without a separate terminal app. A commit log with a rendered branch and merge graph shows what happened, per-file diffs show exactly what changed, and merge conflicts are resolved in-app, per file. A REAL SSH TERMINAL An interactive shell to your server, from inside the file manager, on Mac, iPad and iPhone. iOS ships no ssh binary, so this is a full client implementation rather than a wrapper around a system tool. CONNECT TO WHAT YOU ALREADY HAVE SMB network shares (your NAS, Mac, or Windows PC), SFTP with key authentication, S3 and S3-compatible storage, FTP, WebDAV, Azure Blob, Dropbox, and more - browsed, copied, and moved like local folders. Your connection list syncs across your devices through iCloud; passwords stay in the Keychain and are never uploaded. BUILT FOR REAL FILE WORK - Dual-pane on Mac and iPad, with a tab bar on iPhone. - Streaming transfers, including remote to remote, with progress that survives leaving the app. - Folder Sync in four modes, and Compare Folders with SHA-256 verification so you can prove a copy is byte-for-byte identical. - Batch rename with regex, numbering and dates, previewed before it runs. - Browse inside ZIP archives like folders; create ZIP and TAR/GZ; read password-protected archives. - Duplicate finder, disk-usage treemap, checksums, permissions editor. - Quick Look plus rich preview for CSV, JSON, Markdown, YAML, TOML and source code. - Full hardware-keyboard support on iPad: arrows, shift-selection, Tab, Esc, Return, Space. ON-DEVICE AI Describe a batch rename in plain words, or summarize a document, using Apple Intelligence. It runs entirely on your device: no account, no API key, no per-use cost, and your filenames and file contents never leave the device. ONE PURCHASE, THREE PLATFORMS Buy once and use EmpiricCommander on your Mac, iPad and iPhone - one device of each type. Not a subscription. This major version and all of its updates are included. PRIVACY No tracking. Diagnostics are strictly opt-in.
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What's New in EmpiricCommander File Manager

2.11.0

September 10, 2026

- An interrupted transfer picks up where it stopped. Copying a large file over SFTP or FTP used to start again from zero every time the connection dropped or the phone locked - on a 2 GB file over a shaky link that could mean never finishing at all. The transfer now resumes from the last byte it can prove is on disk, and the card says "Resuming from 840 MB" so you can see that it did. If the file changed on the server while you were away, it restarts and says why instead of stitching two versions together. SMB uploads still start over: the write the app uses truncates the file, and the card no longer pretends otherwise. - Two panes on iPhone in landscape. Turn a Plus or Pro Max sideways and you get the real dual-pane layout - two panes side by side, one selection bar for the active one, and a rail down the side for Sources, Connections, the Shelf and Settings. Copying between two folders on a phone is finally the same gesture it is on a Mac. - The Shelf works between your iPhone and your Mac. Anything you drop on the Shelf on one device shows up on the other through iCloud Drive, including files pulled from a remote connection like Dropbox or an SFTP server - those are downloaded first, so they can actually be pasted. Syncing tells you what it sent, what it received, or that everything already matches, and adding a large remote file shows that it is downloading.

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