Stingray File Manager

A clean, modern file manager for Linux and Windows that puts your folders, your cloud drives and your servers in one window.

What it does

• Your folders, where you expect them. Home, Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, Videos and Trash in the sidebar, plus USB sticks and second disks as you plug them in.
• Cloud drives built in. Google Drive, OneDrive and Dropbox each have a place in the sidebar. Click one to set it up: a short wizard opens your browser to sign in, and Stingray never sees your password.
• Connection lights. Each drive shows its state at a glance:
  • 🟢 green: connected
  • 🔴 red: set up, but not reachable right now (offline, or the sign-in expired)
  • ⚪ grey: not set up yet
• Network drives. Connect to server… adds SMB (Windows shares, Samba, most NAS boxes), SFTP (servers over SSH) and NFS.
• Drag and drop anywhere. Drag files between any two places: a local folder to Google Drive, OneDrive to a NAS, Dropbox to Downloads. On the same drive a drag moves; across drives it copies. Hold Ctrl (or Alt) to copy instead. Files dragged in from other apps are copied into the folder on screen.
• Everything else you'd expect: copy, cut and paste, rename in place, new folder, move to Trash, search this folder, icon and list views, picture thumbnails, hidden files on demand, and a transfer panel with progress and cancel.

It's a desktop app and works offline. It only goes online to reach your cloud drives.

Keyboard

Keys	Action
Enter	Open
Backspace, Alt+Up	Up one folder
Alt+Left / Alt+Right	Back / Forward
F2	Rename
Delete	Move to Trash (asks first on cloud and network drives)
Ctrl+C / Ctrl+X / Ctrl+V	Copy / Cut / Paste
Ctrl+Shift+N	New folder
Ctrl+A	Select all
Ctrl+H	Show or hide hidden files
Ctrl+F	Search this folder
F5	Refresh

Install

Download the latest release from the Releases page:

• Linux: .AppImage (any distribution) or .deb (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Pop!_OS)
• Windows: .msi

NFS notes

rclone has no NFS client, so Stingray asks the operating system to connect NFS shares:

• Linux: needs nfs-common (Debian, Ubuntu) or nfs-utils (Fedora, Arch). Your desktop asks for your password when a share connects; it appears under ~/NFS/<name>.
• Windows: needs Client for NFS, which is part of Windows Pro and Enterprise. Turn it on under Windows Features.

How it works

Stingray is built with Tauri 2: a Rust backend and a Svelte interface, drawn by the system's own web engine (WebKitGTK on Linux, WebView2 on Windows). The installer is small and nothing runs in a browser.

Cloud, SMB and SFTP drives go through rclone, which ships inside Stingray and runs in the background on a private local port. Sign-ins are stored only in rclone's own config file in Stingray's data folder. The storage engine comes from its sibling project, Orbit for rclone.

Build from source

You need Node.js 22, Rust (stable), and on Linux the Tauri system packages:

sudo apt install libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev libayatana-appindicator3-dev librsvg2-dev libssl-dev

Then:

npm install
npm run fetch:rclone          # downloads the pinned rclone into src-tauri/binaries
npm run tauri dev             # run it
npm run bundle:linux          # AppImage and .deb
npm run bundle:windows        # .msi (on Windows)

Tests: npm run check, npm test, and cargo test --manifest-path src-tauri/Cargo.toml.

The app icons are generated from assets/logo/source.jpeg by python3 assets/logo/gen.py.

License

Apache License 2.0. See LICENSE and NOTICE.

Made by QuietByte.