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File-Examples is a service for developers, designers and testers to download sample files in many formats and sizes for test, demo or presentation use. It offers video, audio, document, image and other files such as text and archives, all free to download.
FileBot is a tool for renaming and organizing movies, TV shows and anime. It matches media files against online databases, downloads artwork and fetches subtitles, and offers a command-line interface for automated workflows.
Fileforums is a file utility for storage, cleanup, downloads, syncing, previews, or file management.
FileInfo.com is a searchable database of over 10,000 file extensions with information about the associated file types. It allows users to look up unknown file types and find programs that open the files.
Files is a file manager for Windows. Its features include tabs, dual pane, tagging files and folders, column view, archive viewing and editing, a preview pane and a command palette. Cloud drives from various providers appear in the sidebar, which requires their respective clients to be installed and running.
FilesMD is a web-based metadata viewer and editor. Users upload files to view EXIF and metadata fields such as timestamp, thumbnails, software version, language, author, and GPS location. It also supports editing file metadata and lists supported file types.
FILExt is a file extension reference site offering a collection of file extensions, many linked to the programs that created the files. The site provides an online file viewer; dropping a file on the website lets FILExt analyze the file type and preview it. The database contains detailed information about almost every file extension. The site was created by Tom Simondi at the turn of the millennium.
Fluent Search is a keyboard-driven search and productivity tool for Windows. It launches apps, finds files through indexing, searches browser history and bookmarks, runs commands, searches the web, switches windows, and performs calculations from one interface. Search tags narrow results, and plugins extend it. Builds are offered for Windows x64 and ARM64.
FreeConvert is an online file conversion service. It supports more than 2000 conversion types for audio, image, video, e-book, document, and archive file formats, and does not require users to install software. The service also provides additional tools including file compression utilities.
FreeFileSync is a free open source data backup application for comparing and synchronizing files and folders on Windows, macOS and Linux. It determines differences between a source and target folder and transfers only the minimum data needed rather than copying every file. The website also references a separate Business Edition available for license extension.
Kryptor is a free, open source file encryption and signing tool for Windows, Linux, and macOS. It is designed as a simple, modern, and user-friendly alternative to GPG, age, and Minisign. Pre-built binaries are available for x64 and ARM64 architectures across supported operating systems.
MediaMonkey is a media organizer and player for managing music and video libraries. It handles audio and video files on a hard drive, network, cloud or recorded from CDs, and provides tagging, duplicate removal, playlist creation, format conversion and playback to DLNA, Chromecast and Bluetooth devices. Sharing between Windows, Android, Apple devices, TVs and cloud services is described.
MediaPeek is a browser-based tool that inspects media metadata from a URL in a clear interface. It reads only the bytes needed via byte-range HTTP requests and can look inside ZIP and TAR archives without full extraction. It runs metadata analysis through mediainfo.js in WebAssembly, exports results in several formats including JSON, object, text, HTML and XML, and shares results through encrypted links without storing content.
Metadata2Go is an online metadata viewer that displays hidden metadata for audio, video, document, ebook and image files. It provides an online EXIF data viewer with no installation required, and also offers metadata removal and metadata editing tools.
MetaStrip is a browser-based tool that removes metadata from photos, videos, PDFs and documents, including GPS, camera and author details plus AI tags and C2PA Content Credentials. It runs entirely client-side, so files are not uploaded, and reads metadata locally with libraries such as piexifjs and pdf-lib. It supports batch processing of up to 100 files and is open source under MIT.
MiConv is a browser-based file conversion service. It supports over 250 formats across documents, images, audio, video, eBooks and fonts, without installing software. Files can be batch-converted, input files are deleted after conversion and output files after two hours.
muCommander is a file utility for storage, cleanup, downloads, syncing, previews, or file management.
NanaZip is a 7-Zip derivative for Windows. It provides a modern interface that supports the Windows 11 context menu, Fluent Design and dark mode. It adds file formats beyond 7-Zip, including Zstandard, WASM, Electron ASAR and .NET Single File Bundle, and includes configurable security mitigations.
OpenMyFiles is an online file information directory. It provides categorized listings of file formats and associated programs, with top categories including archive, audio, data, raster image, spreadsheet, executable, vector image and video files.
Pandoc is a universal document converter that converts files between markup formats. It supports many input and output formats, including Markdown, HTML, EPUB and Microsoft Word docx, and offers markdown syntax extensions and automatic citations and bibliographies. Pandoc is open-source software maintained by volunteers.
PrivMeta is a free browser-based metadata remover for supported images, videos, audio, PDFs, and documents. File cleaning runs in the browser without uploading files or requiring an account, so files stay on the device. Supported formats include JPEG, PNG, WEBP, GIF, PDF, DOCX, MP4, WEBM, MOV, MKV, WAV, MP3, FLAC, AAC, and M4A.
Rarlab is the home of WinRAR and RAR archivers. WinRAR is an archive manager that can back up data, reduce the size of email attachments, open and unpack RAR, ZIP and other downloaded files, and create new RAR and ZIP archives. A trial version is available for download before purchase.
Recoll is a desktop document search application for Unix, Linux, Microsoft Windows and MacOS, built on the Xapian search engine library. It finds documents based on their contents as well as their file names and can search most document formats. The software is free on Linux, open source, and licensed under the GPL.
rsync is an open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer, freely available under the GNU General Public License and maintained by Andrew Tridgell. It uses the rsync algorithm to bring remote files into sync by sending just the differences across the link. Some features include updating whole directory trees and optionally preserving symbolic links, hard links, file ownership, permissions, devices and times.
