DockDuck is the native macOS file manager Finder should be — fast, beautiful, and 100% Swift. Tabs, dual-pane, a pinned Start dashboard, tags, instant search, batch rename, and connect to servers(SFTP/SMB) — all in one window that opens the moment you click. Pay once, no subscription. Your files never leave your Mac.
Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Martin, the solo developer behind DockDuck.
I've lived on a Mac for years, and Finder always felt… stuck. It barely changes, and every "alternative" was either a powerful-but-dated power tool, or an Electron app that ate my RAM and battery just to list files.
I wanted something that felt like Apple made it — fast, native, genuinely beautiful — but with the power features I actually reach for: dual-pane, connecting to servers, batch rename, tags, and a pinned dashboard for the stuff I open every day.
So I built DockDuck. 100% Swift and AppKit, zero Electron. It opens instantly, stays out of your way, and your files never leave your Mac. And it's pay-once (or yearly) — no subscription, because I'm tired of those too.
It's a free 14-day Pro trial, no card needed. And for the PH community, PRODUCTHUNT21 takes 10% off any plan until Sept 30.
This is an early launch and I'm building it in public. I'd genuinely love your feedback on what would make DockDuck your daily file manager — and I'm happy to talk about how it's built, the design decisions, any of it. 🦆
Hey @mnemosynee Martin, I have quietly resented Finder for years and long since stopped expecting better, so watching someone finally give it a proper rival feels good.
congrats on shipping this solo, the "zero Electron" framing is doing a lot of work and honestly for a file manager it should - I've quit using more than one "modern Finder" alternative purely because it lagged scrolling a folder with a few thousand files. curious about the SFTP/SMB piece though - when you save server credentials, are those going into the macOS Keychain or do you roll your own storage for that? that's usually the detail that decides whether I trust a new file manager with my actual server logins or just use it for local stuff.
About DockDuck on Product Hunt
“The native macOS file manager Finder should be”
DockDuck launched on Product Hunt on August 25th, 2026 and earned 96 upvotes and 5 comments, placing #12 on the daily leaderboard. DockDuck is the native macOS file manager Finder should be — fast, beautiful, and 100% Swift. Tabs, dual-pane, a pinned Start dashboard, tags, instant search, batch rename, and connect to servers(SFTP/SMB) — all in one window that opens the moment you click. Pay once, no subscription. Your files never leave your Mac.
DockDuck was featured in Mac (103.7k followers), Productivity (659.3k followers) and Developer Tools (518.3k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 246.6k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted DockDuck?
DockDuck was hunted by Martin. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Martin
Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Martin, the solo developer behind DockDuck.
I've lived on a Mac for years, and Finder always felt… stuck. It barely changes, and every "alternative" was either a powerful-but-dated power tool, or an Electron app that ate my RAM and battery just to list files.
I wanted something that felt like Apple made it — fast, native, genuinely beautiful — but with the power features I actually reach for: dual-pane, connecting to servers, batch rename, tags, and a pinned dashboard for the stuff I open every day.
So I built DockDuck. 100% Swift and AppKit, zero Electron. It opens instantly, stays out of your way, and your files never leave your Mac. And it's pay-once (or yearly) — no subscription, because I'm tired of those too.
It's a free 14-day Pro trial, no card needed. And for the PH community, PRODUCTHUNT21 takes 10% off any plan until Sept 30.
This is an early launch and I'm building it in public. I'd genuinely love your feedback on what would make DockDuck your daily file manager — and I'm happy to talk about how it's built, the design decisions, any of it. 🦆