Path Finder
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
5recommend
2warn against
Jan 23, 2026first mention
Sep 6, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I used to use Path Finder [^1] over the native Finder”
former Powerbook G4 / early Intel Mac userswitched from Finderon “Show HN: Fast, native Mac file manager (filters, fuz…”
“Great concept and actually usefull”
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“I use Pathfinder on MacOS, and it's generally a lot better than finder”
“chose Path Finder, and have been using it ever since”
switched from Finderon “Bugs Apple Loves”
Caveats and dissent
“I ended up hating the subscription and constant feature churn”
“I no longer use PathFinder, it had its own problems and bugs”
switched from Windows to Mac in 2007on “Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one”
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one 2 mentions
- Show HN: Fast, native Mac file manager (filters, fuzzy find, 9 MB, no Electron) 2 mentions
- Bugs Apple Loves 2 mentions
- Show HN: PathFinder – Map every path to your goal, then execute it step by step 1 mention
- Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good 1 mention
- Tim Cook to become Apple Executive Chairman 1 mention
Also written as PathFinder, Pathfinder. Data: path-finder.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 10
“I ended up hating the subscription and constant feature churn”
“I no longer use PathFinder, it had its own problems and bugs”
“old pathfinder user here”
“I used to use Path Finder [^1] over the native Finder”
“Great concept and actually usefull”
“I used to like Pathfinder and was willing to just pay for that as an alternative but that software is just buggy enough”
“I use Pathfinder on MacOS, and it's generally a lot better than finder”
“PathFinder replaced Finder”
“chose Path Finder, and have been using it ever since”
> I recall you used to be able to flip some bit somewhere to allow you to Quit the Finder you can still do this with a hidden preference using command line: defaults write com.apple.finder QuitMenuItem -bool true; killall Finder [0] https://www.defaults-write.com/adding-quit-option-to-os-x-finder/ > But even then, you'd want more than just that, as when you tell the OS to "Reveal" a file or open a folder, that's the