Zazabor puts a Finder-style file manager, a Picasa-style gallery with GPU deep zoom and cinematic slideshows, a VLC-based video player, a terminal, sticky notes that sync through a cloud drive, a time tracker for your working day, a wallet for your money, Office (a Word-like word processor and an Excel-like spreadsheet that open and save Word and Excel files, and an Acrobat-like PDF app), Studio (a layered photo editor and a reel and video editor with motion templates) and a Win+V-style clipboard history in one window. Each feature can be turned on or off in Settings. Built with Tauri 2 (Rust) and TypeScript + WebGL2.
It ships small and gets the rest when it's needed: motion templates, soundtracks and template fonts come from Zazabor's online library the first time they're used, and new ones arrive without an update. New versions of Zazabor install themselves, after you say so; every release and library file is signed and checked first.
Zazabor was called CorePro until October 2026 (and SliderPro before that); its settings, notes, wallet and other data move over on first launch, and the old folders are kept as a backup. See docs/PLAN.md for the roadmap and docs/DESIGN.md for the design rules.
Install
On Linux (x86-64), for your user, no root needed:
curl -fsSL https://soab42.github.io/zazabor-content/install.sh | sh
The installer reads the latest release from GitHub, checks its signature against Zazabor's release key (with OpenSSL 3, or Python's cryptography; it stops if it can't) and the archive's SHA-256, then installs Zazabor into ~/.local with an applications-menu entry. Zazabor needs WebKitGTK 4.1, GStreamer and VLC's libraries; on Ubuntu, Pop!_OS or Debian: sudo apt install libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0 gstreamer1.0-plugins-good gstreamer1.0-libav vlc.
Updates: Zazabor checks for a new version a few seconds after it starts, when the computer comes back online, and twice a day (Settings → Zazabor → Check for updates automatically). When there's one, a window shows what's new: Install Update downloads and installs it with its progress, and Restart Now quits as Quit does, asking about unsaved files first. Later asks again at the next start, Skip This Version waits for the next one; offline, nothing shows. Copies older than 0.2.0 have no updater: install 0.2.0 or later once by hand.
To build and install from source instead, see Install from source.
Features
App
- An app rail switches between Files, Gallery, Video, Terminal, Notes, Time, Wallet, Office, Studio and Clipboard (Ctrl+1…9 for the first nine); Settings sits at the bottom of the rail.
- Every Open, Save As and Choose Folder dialog is Zazabor's own, in the Files look (Favourites, Devices, path bar, list and icon views, type filter, search, hidden files with Ctrl+H, New Folder, multi-select), never the desktop's; each one reopens in the folder it was last used in.
- A first-run wizard picks the theme, accent colour and which features to turn on.
- Default apps (Settings → General): make Zazabor what opens your photos, videos, PDFs, Word documents and spreadsheets everywhere on the desktop with one button, or choose any app for each kind, folders included.
- Feedback (Settings → Zazabor): Report a Bug and Request a Feature open GitHub's forms with your version and system filled in.
- Terminal drawer (Ctrl+
or the rail's terminal button): terminals under every section, starting in that section's folder, for a shell or an agent like Claude Code beside your work. Drag its top edge to resize, fold it to its tabs (what runs keeps running; a finished command puts a dot on its tab and on the rail's button), or maximize it. Ctrl+Shift+ opens a new one.
- Updates and the library: Settings → Zazabor shows the version, checks for updates, installs one and restarts into it. Its Library section shows the online library (templates, soundtracks, fonts and when it was last updated), with Check Now for new ones at once and Remove Downloads to free the space (anything used again downloads again; projects that use it fetch it when they open).
- Frosted-glass macOS-style interface in dark, light or system theme, with accent colours and background tones.
Windows
- Any section can open in its own window (right-click its rail button, a middle click, or Ctrl+N): just that section, without the app rail or Settings. Any file can too (right-click → Open in New Window, or New Window in Quick Look): a picture gets only the viewer, a video only the player, a folder the file manager, PDFs and other files a viewer, text and code the editor.
- Windows share settings and the privacy lock: change the theme in one and the others follow; locking one locks them all.
- One Zazabor runs at a time: opening it again (from the menu, or a file with Open With) brings up the running one, which opens that file. An installed Zazabor and a development build stay separate.
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