File Beaver

What it does

Drop an image or a PDF on the beaver and a ring of actions opens around him. Every result is saved as a new file next to the original, so the original is never changed.

Opens: JPG, PNG, WEBP, HEIC, TIFF, AVIF, BMP, GIF and PDF. Saves: JPG, PNG, WEBP, HEIC, TIFF, AVIF, BMP, PDF and DOCX.

Install

1. Download File.Beaver_x.y.z_x64-setup.exe from the latest release.
2. Open it. It installs in a few seconds, without asking for admin rights.
3. The beaver appears on your desktop. From now on File Beaver starts with Windows and keeps itself up to date.

[!NOTE] Seeing "Windows protected your PC"? Click More info, then Run anyway. Windows shows this for new apps that aren't code-signed yet and haven't been downloaded many times. Everything File Beaver does is in this repository for anyone to check.

How to use it

With the beaver

1. Drag a file from File Explorer, the desktop or a browser's downloads onto the beaver.
2. The ring opens around him. Slide onto an action and let go.
3. Prefer to click? Let go right on the beaver, and the ring stays open until you click an action.

He sits on your desktop behind your windows, so he's never in the way, and comes to the front as soon as you start dragging a file. Drag him to move him; right-click him to hide him.

With Shift, anywhere on screen

Start dragging a file and tap Shift. The ring opens under your cursor; drop on an action.

Good to know

• Photos open on the tools and PDFs on Convert. Click the middle of the ring, or tap Shift again, to switch.
• To cancel, drop in the middle, drag away from the ring, or press Esc.
• Drag several files at once to convert or compress them together.
• The tray icon (by the clock) opens Settings: the trigger key, where results go, starting with Windows, and showing or hiding the beaver.

Is it safe?

Yes, and every point below can be checked in this repository.

Use it with an AI assistant

Help installing or using it. Paste this into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any assistant that can read web pages:

I want to use File Beaver on my Windows PC: https://github.com/DEVIOUSDEV101/file-beaver
Read the README, then walk me through installing it step by step and show me how to
convert, compress and crop a file with it. Ask me what I see if anything goes wrong.

Change it with an AI coding agent. The project is set up for Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot and similar tools: AGENTS.md tells them how the code is laid out, how to build and test it, and which rules to keep. Clone the repository, open the folder in your agent, and ask for what you want:

Set up everything I need to build File Beaver on this PC, then build it.
Add ICO as a Convert option, with a test.
Add a setting to make the beaver bigger.

FAQ

Build from source

You'll need Rust (GNU toolchain) with MinGW and nasm, and Node.js 20 or later. RELEASING.md has the exact setup and release steps, and PLAN.md explains the design and the reasoning behind each technical choice.

cd core && cargo test                                     # file formats and logic
cd app && npm install && npx tauri build --debug --no-bundle

Changes are listed in CHANGELOG.md.

Credits

Inspired by a radial file tool for macOS; File Beaver is an independent project and isn't affiliated with it. Icons by Lucide. Third-party components and their licences are listed in THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.txt.

Licence

MIT © 2026 DEVIOUSDEV101