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Plugins

Plugins extend Peach Commander with extra tools, file formats, and places to browse. A dozen plugins come built in, so you can start using them right away, and you can turn individual plugins on or off — or install new ones — from a single window. Use plugins when you want capabilities beyond everyday copying and browsing: visualizing what fills a disk, connecting to a WebDAV server, checking the state of a Git repository, watching system activity, and more.

Plugins come in a few flavors: some add a panel or sidebar (a view), some add columns to the file list, some add a place you navigate into like a drive, and some teach the app a new archive format. Each is enabled independently.

What the built-in plugins add

Several plugins have their own detailed help topic — follow the link for the full story:

  • Disk Map — visualizes what fills a folder or volume as a treemap or sunburst, reconciled against free, purgeable, and hidden space, with a cleanup collector.
  • AI Assistant — an optional, removable assistant that summarizes, renames, translates, tabulates, and tidies files in plain language, on-device or via a cloud model.
  • Git — shows each file's working-tree status and the current branch as panel columns, and adds a Git menu for status, stage, commit, pull, and push.
  • System Monitor — a live readout of CPU, memory, disk, network (and, where available, GPU, battery, sensors) in the window title bar, with click-through detail graphs.
  • Task Manager — mounts your running processes as a browsable TaskManager drive; sort them, inspect them like files, or end them with Delete.
  • Uninstaller — removes an application and the support files, caches, and preferences it leaves behind, after showing you exactly what will go.

The remaining built-in plugins are smaller and don't need a page of their own:

  • WebDAV — connect to a WebDAV server (Net ▸ WebDAV Connect…) and browse, upload, download, rename, and delete on it as if it were a folder. Passwords are kept in the macOS Keychain.
  • iCloud Drive — adds an iCloud Drive entry to the drive bar that jumps straight to your local iCloud Drive folder. It appears only when iCloud Drive is set up on your Mac.
  • Notes — keep a note beside any file or folder. A small ● badge marks items that have one; edit notes in a docked Notes sidebar or a full rich-text editor (Commands ▸ Edit Note…), and browse them all with Notes Overview….
  • Log Viewer — open a file as a color-coded, level-classified, live-tailing log (File ▸ View as Log…), with per-level filters, search, and support for common log formats plus your own regex formats. Handles multi-gigabyte logs instantly.
  • CSV Lister — press F3 on a .csv or .tsv file and it opens as a real table with sortable columns instead of raw text. The delimiter is detected automatically, so semicolon-separated exports line up too, and the viewer's search finds values cell by cell.
  • AI Column — adds an AI Language column that detects each text file's dominant language on-device (using Apple's NaturalLanguage framework — not a cloud model).
  • Archive formats — teaches the app to browse and extract more archive types (7z, tar family, gzip/bzip2/xz/zstd, and RAR where a helper tool is installed), which then open like folders.

Turn plugins on or off

  1. Choose Configuration ▸ Plugins… to open the plugin window.
  2. Each installed plugin appears in the list with its name, type, and an Enabled checkbox.
  3. Select or clear the checkbox to enable or disable a plugin. Changes take effect immediately — enabled plugins add their menus, columns, and features; disabled ones stay out of the way.

The plugin window listing installed plugins with enable checkboxes and Install and Remove buttons (Figure: The plugin window, where you enable, disable, install, or remove plugins.)

Install a new plugin

  1. Choose Configuration ▸ Plugins….
  2. Click Install from Folder….
  3. Choose a plugin bundle or a .zip containing one, then confirm. The plugin is added to the list and enabled.

Remove a plugin

  1. In the plugin window, select the plugin in the list.
  2. Click Remove. Built-in features are unaffected; only the selected plugin is removed.

Notes

  • The plugin list shows each plugin's type and interface version alongside its name and location, so you can confirm what is installed.
  • If no plugins are installed, the window shows a short prompt pointing you to Install from Folder….
  • Some plugins add their own columns, menu items, or panel places only while they are enabled. If a feature you expected is missing, check that its plugin is turned on here.