See it in action
Install
Download from Releases.
Or with WinGet:
winget install KnifeLemon.Filee
- Windows 10/11: run
Filee-<version>-win-Setup.exe, or unzip the win-Portable.zip and run Filee.exe.
- Setup is Filee's own installer, in Filee's languages, and needs nothing else on the PC.
- It can add the Explorer menu, start at sign-in, the
filee command and optional engines.
- Silent installs take Inno Setup's switches (
/VERYSILENT /SUPPRESSMSGBOXES).
- macOS 13+ (preview): unpack the
osx-arm64 or osx-x64 package and run ./install.sh.
- Or open the
.dmg and drag Filee to Applications (the filee command comes with install.sh).
- The build isn't notarized yet, so allow the first start in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway.
- Linux x64/ARM64 (Ubuntu 22.04+): unpack the package and run
./install.sh (no root, needs Python 3).
- Drag gestures need X11.
On Wayland, use the drop zone and the file manager's right-click menu.
Portable releases keep their data beside the app; see portable mode.
Filee shows new releases in its menu and updates itself, keeping your settings and engines.
After an update, a few slides show what's new.
Windows: Filee doesn't start (no window, no error)?
This happens on Windows 10 that hasn't been updated for a long time, on a PC whose processor supports Hardware-enforced Stack Protection (CET).
Windows turns that protection on but lacks a part that .NET needs, so Filee and Setup stop right away.
- Recommended: install the available Windows updates (the latest cumulative update).
- If updating isn't possible: turning the protection off for Filee alone usually works.
Run this in PowerShell as administrator:
Set-ProcessMitigation -Name Filee.exe -Disable UserShadowStack
Set-ProcessMitigation -Name filee-cli.exe -Disable UserShadowStack
Do the same with Setup's file name (e.g. Filee-<version>-win-Setup.exe), or use the portable ZIP, which needs only these two lines.
To undo it, remove the entries in Windows Security → App & browser control → Exploit protection settings → Program settings.
Features
- A donut at the cursor: hold a key, drag files and drop them on a format.
Only formats that fit the files appear.
- Straight from the browser: drag a picture, a link to a file or a download out of Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari the same way.
- Filee saves it to your Downloads folder (or keeps only the converted file) and converts it.
- Links are downloaded without your browser's sign-in.
- One toolbar per file type, arranged by drag and drop, with presets for:
- quality, size, DPI
- PDF pages and compression
- video and audio
- output folder and file names
- Two sides to every donut: press Tab or turn the mouse wheel while it is open to flip it over to less common formats and tools.
- Crop before converting: the Crop slice opens pictures one by one.
Drag the frame, pick a ratio, and only that part is saved.
- Many files at once, in parallel.
Routes with several steps (HWP → HWPX → DOCX) are found automatically.
- Watch folders convert every file that lands in them.
- Recent conversions on Home, each with a thumbnail: open the result, or open it with another app.
- A file list on Home: turn on Collect dropped files in a list in General settings, and files dropped on Home (including those dragged from a browser) wait in a list instead of opening the donut.
Drag the cards or use Alt+↑ / Alt+↓ to set the order, Delete to remove one, and Choose action to open the donut for the list in that order.
The list empties when that conversion completes.
- Other ways in: the right-click menu, a keyboard shortcut, the drop zone and the
filee command.
- Light and dark themes with your own accent colour and donut opacity, in English, Español, 日本語, 한국어, 简体中文, 繁體中文, Polski, हिन्दी, Русский, العربية (right to left), Português (Brasil), Français, नेपाली, ไทย, Türkçe, Português (Portugal), Deutsch, Italiano, Bahasa Indonesia and Tiếng Việt.
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