The house has two programs with the same promise: Elegant File Explorer, the manager that organizes files by rules, and Elegant Paper, the PDF workbench that merges, splits, makes searchable with OCR and compresses — all on your own PC. Each is complete on its own; installed together, they gain shortcuts between them.
Elegant File Explorer is a Windows file manager that organizes for you: automation rules with a simulation first and undo after, ready-made recipes by profession and country, instant search through the content of documents (scanned PDFs included, with built-in OCR) and by each download's origin. Everything 100% local — no account, no cloud, no telemetry.
The project was born of a simple frustration: the Downloads folder that turned into a dumping ground every Friday. Explorers show files; this one tidies them.
Rule-based automation with simulation and undo, 176 ready-made recipes in packs by profession and country, instant search by content (scanned PDFs included) and by each download's origin, duplicates by content, tabs, side-by-side panes, built-in preview, tags with reminders and batch rename. The blog has guides for all of it.
Honesty also means saying what it does not do: the duplicate finder matches only bit-for-bit identical copies (a re-edited photo is a different file); the built-in preview renders real pages only for PDF — Office shows as extracted text, and CAD formats depend on the Windows thumbnail; and the app creates ZIP/TAR, while 7z and RAR are extract-only. Found a security issue? Write to contact@elegantfe.com with the subject SECURITY — we answer with priority.
Elegant’s apps are built and published independently — no investors, no subscription treadmill to feed. Questions, ideas and problems: contact@elegantfe.com. Every message gets read.
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