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Hi everyone! I’m Yan, the creator of Marta. Over the past few years, I got a lot of messages from people all around the world, happily telling me they have finally found their ideal file manager for Mac. I have no words to express my delight with your continuous support. ❤️ It’s been quite a while since I announced the last release. During this time, there were no visible signs…
Hi everyone! I’m excited to present you the new release today, Marta 0.8.1. There are many changes and a few announcements, and I can’t wait to cover them all! New Look Up Look Up was introduced in Marta 0.4.2. Many users liked the feature, as it made it much easier to navigate through the file system. Even if you remember the location of the particular folder, it’s much more…
Long time no see! It’s Yan here, creator of Marta. Hope you stay safe in these crazy times. Today I’m happy to announce the release of Marta 0.8. While it doesn’t bring a lot of new features, it’s packed up with internal changes made to allow for the bright future of Marta. File System Layer File system layer is the core of a file manager, so it needs to be stable,…
Hello, everyone! I’m happy to announce the release of Marta 0.7. Also, there are two more project news. Keep reading :) Why an API? Before I started investing time in Marta, I tried a lot of macOS file managers. All of them were quite mature applications with lots of features. However, it doesn’t matter how much batteries are included – one day you realize the functionality you need the most is…
Hello everyone! I’m happy to announce the next version of Marta, 0.6.1. It brings a lot of exciting features – and also the new configuration format. Why Marco? Marta used JSON as a preferences file format since the very first version. It wasn’t a random choice. There were a few reasons behind that: Everyone uses JSON. Almost every developer knows it. Easy to implement. There’re…
Hello, everyone! Some time passed since the last release of Marta. And today I’m excited to announce the next version of the neatest macOS file manager! It’s not my words; it’s just the extremely encouraging feedback I continuously get from you, users. Thank you! ❤️ The reason why this release took more time than previous ones is that the pane model, one of the core…
Hi there! I’m Yan, a developer of Marta. It’s a nice file manager for macOS, try it out! :) Over a year ago, I posted the first blog post here and released Marta 0.1. I’m really glad lots of you liked Marta, and the feedback you provided over the year was highly valuable. Of course, it wasn’t a one-way communication: a lot of features added since the initial release was…
If you ask what I need from a file manager application, there will be a number of requirements: The app should be fast and robust. No excuses. Its UI should be good enough . I’m not a designer but every time I see unequal paddings, my eyes bleed. Ah, a nice-looking dark theme is a must have for me as I often work at night. There should not be any magic under the hood. Come on, it’s…
Hello! After a short delay, I am happy to announce the release of Marta 0.4.3. New theme The most noticeable thing is that Marta 0.4.3 comes with the new default theme called Kon . A single picture is worth a thousand words. You may also notice that the main window now uses the unified title bar. Some users requested this feature, and Marta definitely looks better this way. Well, even if you…
Marta 0.4.2 is here, and I’m excited to tell you about the new features! Spotlight support I hope you’re aware of what Spotlight is, and I don’t need to say anything about how it increases your productivity. I just say it is now seamlessly integrated into Marta. There are two versions of the action: Look up ( ⌘P ) searches globally, while Look up here ( ⌘⌥P ) limits results to…
Today I’m happy to announce the next release of Marta! In the following, I will describe some notable changes. As always, you can read the full list of them in the changelog . DirStat Many years ago, I used WinDirStat to find huge files on my PC. Now I’m on Mac, and I really missed its simplicity. Of course, there are a number of analogs, but none of them seemed convenient to me, not…
The previous version of Marta was out quite a while ago, and today I’m happy to release the 0.4 update! Write support for ZIP file system Write support means you can do any mutating file operation like copying or deleting files just like you do it for the ordinary files. A single movie is worth a thousand words: File API redesigned Most of the changes in 0.4 are hardly visible to the…
Beep beep, the new version of Marta is here! ✨ The features this release brings open new horizons as Marta gradually becomes the fully functional file manager. ZIP file support Yes, ZIP files are now natively supported. It means that you can work with ZIP (or JAR) archives just as with directories and use almost all Marta actions including Copy , Open with and others. Of course, nested…
Marta 0.2.1 is out! ✨ This is a maintenance release with only a few number of the new features. Much more coming soon! This version brings the “Go to path” completion, non-sheet dialog windows, a context menu for breadcrumbs, and a number of bugfixes. As always, you can read the full list of changes in the changelog . Path completion “Go to path” completion was one…
Today I’m happy to release the Marta 0.2! This release brings the tabs support, Terminal integration and a number of API enhancements. Tabs Support Tabs really matter. It was one of the most awaited features of Finder. Of course, you could open multiple windows before, but switching between windows is not so convenient as tab switching. So it was one of the critical features for Marta from…
I’m happy to announce the release of Marta 0.1.3! It brings the multi-column mode and the initial Vim mode support, as well as a number of bugfixes. You can read about all changes in 0.1.3 in the changelog . The download link is here . Multi-column display mode I tried almost all popular file managers for macOS before I decided to create Marta. One of the main issues I had with them was…
Marta 0.1.1 was released around a week ago, and now it’s the time for another update! One of the features requested by Marta users was the Touch Bar support. As MacBook Pro 2016 doesn’t have proper functional keys, you had to enable the Function Keys option in Preferences or press Fn each time you wanted to copy or rename some file (in order to press F5 or ⇧F6 ). Now that’s not…
Marta 0.1 was released around a week ago, and it was quite a success. More than 700 people requested an invite on the first day, and I received a lot of valuable feedback and feature requests. The launch clearly let me know that I’m not the only one who needs the good file manager on macOS. Here’s one of my favorite comments: Traveling back in time to discover old good and simple to…
Did you ever think about what application you use the most on your computer? Probably it’s the web browser or some tool you use for work, like the text processor or the IDE. But it’s hardly the only app you see regularly. Despite the popularity of web services, lots of people still use desktop applications for playing music, keeping notes and messaging because native apps have the way…