Concentric rings replace folders. See three levels of your filesystem at once, with segment size proportional to file size.
Center is your current folder. First ring: children. Second ring: grandchildren. Three levels at a glance.
60+ extensions mapped to colors. Code is green, images blue, docs yellow, media purple. Scan a directory in one glance.
Directories with 100s of files? Top 15 shown, the rest collapse into one segment. Never overwhelming.
Cubic easing on every navigation. The feel is the product.
One click to switch to a traditional sortable table. No shame, no friction.
Can't modify, move, or delete anything. 8MB binary, 3MB DMG. Tauri, not Electron.
Every file explorer since 1984 uses lists and trees. Every sunburst tool (DaisyDisk, Filelight, Baobab) is a disk analyzer, not a file browser. The one attempt to bridge them — Spyglass (Windows, ~2013) — was called "not really practicable."
Circle Explorer is a second attempt, with three specific improvements:
Signed & notarized builds. Just download and drag to Applications.