Free & open source · macOS first

A file explorer that works
like a map, not a list.

Concentric rings replace folders. See three levels of your filesystem at once, with segment size proportional to file size.

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Concentric rings

Center is your current folder. First ring: children. Second ring: grandchildren. Three levels at a glance.

Color-coded by type

60+ extensions mapped to colors. Code is green, images blue, docs yellow, media purple. Scan a directory in one glance.

Flat-folder grouping

Directories with 100s of files? Top 15 shown, the rest collapse into one segment. Never overwhelming.

Smooth 350ms transitions

Cubic easing on every navigation. The feel is the product.

List view escape hatch

One click to switch to a traditional sortable table. No shame, no friction.

Read-only & tiny

Can't modify, move, or delete anything. 8MB binary, 3MB DMG. Tauri, not Electron.

Why build this?

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:

  1. Flat-folder grouping — directly addresses Spyglass's #1 usability issue.
  2. Smooth animations — 350ms cubic transitions on every navigation.
  3. List view escape hatch — always one click away when rings aren't the right tool.

Install it

Signed & notarized builds. Just download and drag to Applications.

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