blazepilot
🔥 BlazePilot
🌐 [English] | 🇪🇸 Español
Blazing-fast file explorer built with egui in Rust ⚡
A modern, lightweight, and highly customizable graphical file manager. Navigate your files smoothly with multi-language support, a tag system, thumbnails, Git integration, disk management, and much more.
✨ Features
⚡ Performance
- Blazing fast thanks to Rust + egui with a wgpu backend (hardware acceleration)
- MiMalloc memory allocator to reduce fragmentation
- Tokio asynchronous runtime — file operations never block the UI
- LRU cache of 50 directories with debounced saving (3s)
📁 File operations
- Copy / Cut / Paste with global clipboard and conflict resolution
- Rename preserving original casing
- Delete with trash support (XDG Trash compliant)
- Create files and folders
- Move with drag & drop
- Undo file operations (Ctrl+Z)
- Extract ZIP directly from the explorer
🔍 Navigation and search
- Tabbed navigation with history (Ctrl+← / Ctrl+→)
- Recursive search with the
rec:prefix — powered by jwalk - Type-to-search for instant filtering in the current directory
- Auto-scroll when selecting search results
🏷️ Tag System / Quick Access (v0.11.0)
- Flexible tags replacing hardcoded favorites
- Toggle Tag/Normal view with Ctrl+T
- Create tags with Ctrl+Shift+T
- Bottom floating island for tag management
🎨 Interface and customization
- Custom folder colors with color picker and live preview
- Thumbnails with persistent disk cache
- Icons with SVG rasterization and concurrency semaphore
- Centralized color palette and rounded corners
- Image preview in dedicated dialog
- Full context menu with all operations
🌍 Internationalization (v0.12.0)
- 6 languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian
- Language switching at runtime without restarting
🖥️ System integration
- Open with — application selector based on MIME type
- Open in terminal from any folder
- Disk management — mount/unmount with drive sidebar (UDisks2 / D-Bus)
- Real MIME detection using
xdg-mime+ magic byte signature - Git integration — file status with state-specific colors
- Automatic updates with new version notification
- Stable FileId — the identifier persists even when renaming or moving files
⌨️ Keyboard shortcuts
Navigation
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
↑ / ↓ |
Select previous / next item |
Enter |
Open selected folder or file |
Cmd + A |
Select all |
F5 / Cmd + R |
Reload / refresh |
| Extra Mouse Button 1 | Navigate backward |
| Extra Mouse Button 2 | Navigate forward |
File operations
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
Delete |
Delete (move to trash) |
Ctrl + Z |
Undo last operation |
Cmd + C |
Copy |
Cmd + X |
Cut |
Cmd + V |
Paste |
Cmd + Shift + N |
Create new folder |
Cmd + Shift + F |
Create new file |
Search and view
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
Alt + R |
Toggle recursive search |
Ctrl + T |
Toggle Tag / Normal view |
Ctrl + Shift + T |
Create new tag |
Terminal
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
Alt + T |
Open terminal in the current directory |
Tabs
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
Cmd + N |
New tab |
Cmd + W |
Close current tab |
Ctrl + Tab / Ctrl + → |
Next tab |
Ctrl + Shift + Tab / Ctrl + ← |
Previous tab |
Ctrl + 1 … Ctrl + 5 |
Go to tab 1–5 |
Dialogs
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
Enter |
Confirm (rename / create folder or file) |
Escape |
Cancel (rename / create folder or file) |
🚀 Installation
Just download the binary — no installation or external dependencies required:
- Go to the Releases page
- Download the binary for your system (currently Linux only)
- Give it execution permissions:
chmod +x blazepilot
- Run it!
./blazepilot
🛠️ Build from source
git clone https://github.com/Jhanfer/blazepilot.git
cd blazepilot
cargo run --bin blazepilot
📋 Roadmap
- Full native support for Windows and macOS
- Complete and configurable themes
- Plugins / extensions
📄 License
This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0 — see the LICENSE file for details.
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Made with ❤️ by Jhanfer