Unfortunately, none of the features found in Commander One work as well as they do in other apps. I gave Commander One a test run for the last two weeks and compiled my thoughts below. I won’t go into all the features, you can read about them on the website.

But if you do need it, the concept of having FTP built-in to Finder windows is certainly enticing.Īlong with it’s marquee FTP feature, Commander One offers the ability to theme it’s file manager window, access a Processes window (similar to Apple’s own Activity Monitor), a built-in Terminal, various file sorting capabilities, integration with Dropbox and more. In fact, other than web developers, I suspect there are few people who need FTP anymore, or even know what it is. The need for an FTP Manager today is rather limited. The biggest feature of Commander One is the built-in FTP file manager. But Commander One promises to offer Path Finder-level features, plus a built-in FTP manager, at an affordable price through the Mac App Store-where you have the luxury of installing it on five Macs at a time. This is nothing new XtraFinder does this to some extent, and and Path Finder have done these things for years. It simply recreates Finder windows and adds a multitude of tweaks and features to them.

After looking at the feature list of Commander One, I immediately wondered if it could possibly deliver on the promises it made.Ĭommander One is what you would call a Finder Enhancement app. When I decided to take a look at Commander One, I did so with the expectation that I was going to be looking at something that was equal to or better than apps I was already familiar with and/or used on a regular basis-such as XtraFinder, Path Finder, Transmit, etc.

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