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driver-installer.exe
—Applicationtoday57 MBreceipt-8842-fridge.pdf
warrantyPDFyesterday1.2 MBbeach-trip.jpg
—ImageTue3.4 MBlease-agreement-2026.docx
—DocumentMon88 KBInvoices 2026
—FolderJun 8—Every Friday, the same Downloads folder turned into a dumping ground: bills, photos, contracts and installers, all mixed together. Tabs, preview and search prove it's a complete Explorer — but what changes your life is it tidying the mess on its own, after you approve.
Local apps that respect your files. One-time purchase, no cloud, no account, no subscription — check it by turning the Wi-Fi off.
Ready-made recipes, an autopilot and a Finder that searches inside your documents. Simulate first, undo later.
The workbench where every page becomes a thumbnail you drag around. Merge, split at the scissors, make searchable and compress — on your own PC.
Bursts, screenshots, WhatsApp re-compressions, RAW + JPG. It tells you why two photos are together — in words, not with a number.
Your folders copied to a drive of your own, with a SHA-256 fingerprint for every file — and you watch the copy happen.
Turn on a ready-made recipe or teach a rule once — and it tidies on its own, always with a simulation first. Grouped by profession and by country.
One-click solutions for real mess — always with a simulation first and undo afterwards.
Recognizes by origin (gov.br, banks) and by content, and files things the way Brazilians need.
Sorts forms by type and by tax year, with the right rules for each category.
The global packs work anywhere: Downloads, Desktop, photos, disk space.
Hit a shortcut, start typing, done: it finds it instantly — none of that “indexing…” wait. It searches by name, inside the documents, and even by where the file came from. Your words become filters.
Real-time recipes watch the folders you choose. The moment a file lands, it's tagged, filed and — if it has a deadline — gets a reminder.
Every run starts as a dry-run that writes nothing. You see the impact numbers and approve. If something didn't turn out right, undo reverts it.
Automation is the differentiator, but everything a modern manager needs is here — and the sheet below says which menu each thing lives in.
Open 2 or 3 folders side by side and drag files from one panel to the other. F6 switches focus, and the sidebar and preview follow the active panel.
SHA-256 over the whole file, not the name, so identical files with different names still show up. Nothing is pre-checked, system folders are locked, and the deleting is yours, to the Recycle Bin.
Browser-style tabs. Details, compact list, medium icons, large icons and tiles, on Ctrl+Shift+1 to Ctrl+Shift+5. In the sidebar, 8 Smart Views built on the fly: large files, last 7 days, downloaded from the internet.
Patterns, numbering, dates and your own text. The list of new names updates as you type, and an A↔B swap runs in two phases, so crossed names never collide.
PDFs render real pages. Word, Excel and PowerPoint show the extracted text and the embedded thumbnail, with no Office installed. CSV and TSV become a table, with the separator detected on its own.
Creates zip, tar, tar.gz and tar.bz2. Also extracts 7z, rar, gz, bz2 and xz, password-protected ones included. Nothing to install.
Type, modified date, size range and extensions all at once, with 11 ready categories. The filter is per tab and clears with one click.
Tag any file, with a note and a date reminder, an alert bell and a calendar. The tag follows the file when it moves to another folder or gets renamed.
The app reads the stamp Windows itself writes on every download, read-only, SmartScreen untouched. It shows which site the file came from, old downloads included, and you can sort and organize by it.
Select several PDFs (or photos) and the right-click menu gets Merge into one PDF…, which sends them to the sibling's workbench in the order you clicked. A single PDF gets Open in Elegant Paper in that same menu. The item only appears with Paper installed: without it, the Explorer is what it always was.
Missing something? Ctrl+P opens the command palette with the app's actions, most-used first. And Edit ▸ Action history shows what each undo would do before it does it.
| Elegant File Explorer | Windows Explorer | Cleanup apps | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Organizes on its own with recipes | Yes, 100+ ready-made | No | Only deletes |
| Simulation before touching | Always | No | Rarely |
| Undo what was done | One click | Limited | No |
| Search by content and origin | Yes (Deep Search) | Content only if indexed; no origin | No |
| Duplicates by content (SHA-256) | With review | No | Auto-deletes |
| Side-by-side panels (2 or 3) | Yes, 2 or 3 | No | No |
| Opens 7z, RAR and more — nothing to install | Yes, with password | Limited | No |
| 100% local, no cloud or account | Yes | Yes | Varies |
An honest comparison: each tool has its strength. Elegant is the only one that tidies on its own — with a preview first and undo afterwards.
The app recreated on this page, screen by screen — it follows your theme, your language and never goes stale.
New automation rule — Elegant File Explorer─▢✕Weekly report — Elegant File Explorer─▢✕Activity by day
Hardest-working rules
Where it went
* estimate: ~30 s saved per file organized
Simulation — Invoices to the Finance folder─▢✕Organized 675 file(s) into 234 folder(s). 6 sensitive file(s) skipped.
Estimate: ~45 min of manual tidying saved.
The animation showed a sample; the numbers above reflect the full impact.
US$ 32.99 US$ 16.49 during launch — your local price is set by the Microsoft Store.
US$ 32.99 — your local price is set by the Microsoft Store.
No subscription, no monthly fee. Try it for 7 days and, if you keep it, it's a one-time purchase — yours, forever. And everything runs on your computer.
No. Every run is a dry-run you approve first, and whatever moves can be undone. Deletions go to the Recycle Bin — there's no permanent deletion in the automation path.
No. There's no account, cloud or telemetry — the app has no network code. Everything runs and stays on your PC.
By default it searches by names, folders and origin. Content reading is Deep Search, optional, which fills in the background. OCR of scanned pages applies to PDF only.
Yes: tabs, 5 view modes, 8 Smart Views, favorites, built-in preview, batch rename with preview, ZIP and statistics. Automation is what it has on top.
Yes, it's a Windows app (10 and 11) and adapts to your PC's memory. It's sold exclusively on the Microsoft Store — available today.
Step by step by use case — each opens on its own page.
Turn on a recipe, switch on autopilot and go back to finding what you need — without sending anything to the cloud.