nViPER — a dual-pane file manager for macOS and Windows
A fast, fully keyboard-driven file manager for macOS and Windows with a focus on productivity. A modern reincarnation of the legendary nViPER@bOX from 2001 — from the Slovak team NEXT17.
⬇ Download from the Mac App Store → · free, fully sandboxed, no tracking.
Key features
- Two panes, tabs, history, breadcrumbs, bookmarks
- Full keyboard control — F3 View, F4 Edit, F5 Copy, F6 Move, F7 MkDir, F8 Delete
- Built-in F3 viewer — text, hex, images, PDF, JSON/HTML/source syntax highlighting
- Streamed hex viewer for files 2 GB+
- Built-in F4 editor with save-back upload to SFTP/FTP/SCP
- ZIP / TAR / GZ / BZ2 archives read+write — browse as directories, extract or compress
- SFTP / FTP / SCP clients with WinSCP / TotalCommander session import
- Multi-rename — search & replace, RegEx, case-sensitive
- Split & combine, Encode / Decode, CRC32 manifests
- Content search, file comparer, checksum (MD5 / SHA-256)
- Light / Dark + Norton + One Dark themes, languages EN / SK / CS
PRO — unlock professional tools
The basic app is free and fully functional. You can unlock PRO for a one-off payment of €14.90 via the Apple App Store — including Apple Family Sharing (one purchase for the whole family, up to 6 members).
- Unlimited SFTP / FTP / SCP file transfers
- Multi-rename TotalCommander placeholders — [N], [C], [YMD], [hms]
- File & directory comparer
- Batch checksum, 7z / RAR write, colour tags
- Custom shortcut editor, SSH key authentication
Download
macOS
Available via the Mac App Store — fully sandboxed, no tracking, no third parties.
Windows
You can download nViPER for Windows directly — either the installer or the portable ZIP (no installation required). Always the latest build.
History
The original nViPER@bOX was published in 2001 in the Slovak magazine FreeSoft — a 970 KB Win32 Delphi binary from the NEXT17 team. After 25 years, this modern reincarnation has been created in Dart / Flutter Desktop, sandboxed for the Mac App Store.
Contact
Questions, feedback, technical support:
Privacy: next176.sk/nviper/privacy