finder-menu adds Open Terminal Here and New File to macOS Finder

Right-clicking inside a Mac Finder window does not open a Terminal in that folder, make a new file, or hand the folder to a code editor. A developer who wants any of those takes a slower path: a trip through the Services menu, a drag of the folder onto a Terminal icon, or a change of directory inside a Terminal that is already open.

A free Swift app called finder-menu, opened to the public on 9 October 2026 by a developer called nikgrbn, puts all five of those actions one right-click away. The GitHub repository reached 225 stars two days after the first push, carries an MIT licence, and the README calls the whole thing "about 900 lines of Swift" with no network code.

What it adds to the right-click menu

The project page lists five items the extension puts on an empty Finder folder's context menu. New File opens a dialog for a name and an extension, with a checkbox to save the pattern as a template for next time. Open Terminal Here launches the folder in the user's terminal of choice. Open Folder With opens the folder in a code editor. Copy Path writes the folder's path to the clipboard. Go to Parent Folder moves one level up.

The README names which third-party apps the two "Open" items know about. For a terminal, finder-menu supports iTerm2, Ghostty, Warp, WezTerm, kitty, Alacritty and Apple's own Terminal. For a code editor it lists VS Code, Cursor, Zed, the JetBrains suites and Xcode. The user picks one as the default in a small settings window; the app does not try to detect the active choice.

What the sandbox lets it do, and what it does not

The project page states the extension is sandboxed, carries no network code, and asks for one permission on first run: control of Finder windows. The author's description is that nothing is sent off the Mac and that no telemetry ships with the app. The requirement at the top of the README is macOS 13 or later, and the build target is Swift 5.

Installation is through a Homebrew tap or a build from source, both documented on the repository page. A reader who wants to try the extension opens the repository for the current one-line command.

The traction, and the shape of the project

The 225 stars sit against a repository that is two days old. The README names one author, lists the five menu items as the whole feature set, and makes no claim about users or installs beyond the star count. The project is one person's work for now.

A Mac developer who right-clicks a folder many times a day pays for every second added to the task. finder-menu moves five of those actions from a run of workarounds to one native menu, and the code is published for anyone to read, build and run.

Source

Primary source: nikgrbn/finder-menu on GitHub.