Dolphin

Manage your files Source

Description

Dolphin is KDE's file manager that lets you navigate and browse the contents of your hard drives, USB sticks, SD cards, and more. Creating, moving, or deleting files and folders is simple and fast.

Dolphin contains plenty of productivity features that will save you time. The multiple tabs and split view features allow navigating multiple folders at the same time, and you can easily drag and drop files between views to move or copy them. Dolphin's right-click menu provides with many quick actions that let you compress, share, and duplicate files, among many other things. You can also add your own custom actions.

Dolphin is very lightweight, but at the same time, you can adapt it to your specific needs. This means that you can carry out your file management exactly the way you want to. Dolphin supports three different view modes: a classic grid view of all the files, a more detailed view, and a tree view. You can also configure most of Dolphin's behavior.

Dolphin can display files and folders from many Internet cloud services and other remote machines as if they were right there on your desktop.

Dolphin also comes with an integrated terminal that allows you to run commands on the current folder. You can extend the capabilities of Dolphin even further with powerful plugins to adapt it to your workflow. You can use the git integration plugin to interact with git repositories, or the Nextcloud plugin to synchronize your files online, and much more.

Source

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Mobile friendly since 24.12

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Rating

Mobile Fit: 5

Perfect - this app fits your phone screen just fine out of the box and works nicely with touch input!

Project status: released

This project has been developed so far, that its authors felt confident enough to create a release.

The project repository was created on 2020-05-16.

The last known commit happened on 2025-05-18.
Please note: This information is not updated continuously. This particular listing was last updated on 2025-05-18

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Get it on Flathub!

Install as flatpak: https://flathub.org/apps/org.kde.dolphin.flatpakref

Build and install your own flatpak: https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/raw/master/.flatpak-manifest.json

If you're lucky*, you can install this app by just hitting this button:

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* You need to have an appstream:// handler, e.g., GNOME Software or KDE Discover, installed and the app needs to be available in a configured software repository, more details.

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Licensing and technical details

License: GPL-2.0-or-later Metadata: CC0-1.0

Frameworks: QtWidgets

Programming languages: C++

Build system: cmake

AppStream Metadata URL: https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/raw/master/src/org.kde.dolphin.appdata.xml