ExplorerFocus
The file organiser for 64-bit Windows 11 and 10 — your folders, arranged by what you work on.
A focused file explorer with profiles, rich preview, honest file operations, encrypted vaults, remote/cloud access — and capture tools built in.
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Single .exe · no installer · no runtime to install · digitally signed · 16 languages
Why
Windows Explorer treats every folder the same: one window trying to do everything, remembering
nothing. ExplorerFocus is built for people who spend the day in the same handful of folders and
want to reach them fast — and to see what's inside a file without opening it.
What it does
- Profiles — each is a tab with its own folder tree, filters and remembered state.
Ctrl+1–9 to switch.
- Configurable trees — build them from folders and from registry roots; drag to reorder. Disk space shown per root.
- Multi-pattern search —
*.cs *.json in one box, wildcards anywhere, plus opt-in search across profiles.
- Rich preview — code with syntax highlighting and folding, Markdown, PDF, Word/Excel/PowerPoint, images, EPUB, audio and video (streamed, so a 2 GB file opens instantly).
- Honest file operations — copy/move/delete with real per-file progress, throughput, ETA, pause/resume, up to 6 in parallel, persistent history and 6-way conflict resolution.
- Encrypted vaults — file names and contents encrypted in the Cryptomator format. Give a vault a drive letter and every app on the machine can use it; vaults made here also open in Cryptomator on Android, iOS, Mac and Linux. Opening a vault is free; creating one is Premium.
- Remote & cloud — SFTP, FTP/FTPS, WebDAV, Dropbox, OneDrive. Browse, preview and operate as if local; edit a remote file and it syncs on save.
- Books & comics — preview any EPUB, Kindle, FB2 or comic, and read it in full: plain, or as a two-page paper book with a night version.
- Capture built in — screen (with webcam PiP and system audio), video, audio and scanning, without leaving the explorer.
- The sound of a video — save the audio of any video Windows can play as MP3, AAC, WMA, WAV, FLAC or ALAC, or make a copy of the video without sound. The original is left untouched.
- PDF tools — merge and split any PDF for free; with Premium, organize pages on thumbnails, turn pages into images, add or remove a password, and convert images and simple Word documents to PDF. The original is never touched.
- Complete dark theme, rich hover tooltips, archives browsable as folders, integrated terminals (CMD, PowerShell, Git Bash), per-extension app associations, auto-updates.
Free vs Premium
The free version is the complete product for virtually everyone — all the file management,
profiles, preview, operations, terminals, dark theme, the 16 languages. Nothing expires, nothing
nags.
Premium unlocks a defined set of extras: creating encrypted vaults, full remote access (multiple
connections, all operations, WebDAV, Dropbox, OneDrive), screen and camera recording without
watermark or time cap and with system sound, audio mixing, multi-page scanning with a document
feeder, the complete book reader (EPUB, Kindle formats, FB2 and comics, including the paper mode), the PDF tools beyond merge and split, and intro/end cards on
recordings. It's a one-time donation, not a subscription, activated per machine. Details on the
website.
First run
ExplorerFocus is digitally signed as of version 1.2.23. The signature is recent, so Windows may
still ask you to confirm on first launch — it takes a while to recognise a new publisher. If it
does, click More info → Run anyway. Every release publishes its SHA-256 in
version.json and on the website, so you can verify the file you downloaded.
Built with
WPF on .NET 10, published as a single-file self-contained win-x64 executable.
Made for 64-bit Windows 11. It also runs on Windows 10 version 1809 or later, without support. No .NET to install: it ships inside.
AvalonEdit (code preview) · WebView2 (PDF/Office/Markdown) · SSH.NET · FluentFTP · Media Foundation (capture) ·
Bouncy Castle (vault encryption) · PDFsharp (PDF tools) · DokanNet (vault drive letters — the Dokany driver itself is not shipped).
About
Made by mBrothers — three brothers who keep talking each other into building things.
Questions, bugs and ideas: [email protected]
Also from us: The Absolute LogViewer — a free Windows log viewer with real-time tailing.
