Welcome to FinderPilot
1. Enable the Finder extension
macOS asks you to enable Finder Sync extensions explicitly — even after install. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security → Extensions → Finder, tick the box next to FinderPilot, and Finder will reload its menu. The FinderPilot submenu now appears on every right-click in Finder.
2. Grant access to the folders you care about
FinderPilot is sandboxed. It only sees folders you explicitly grant via the standard macOS file picker. Open the FinderPilot main window and click Granted Folders → Add a folder… to pin one. You can add as many as you want — FinderPilot stores a security-scoped bookmark for each.
3. Pin your top destinations
Favorites land under FinderPilot's right-click submenu and in the menu-bar dropdown. Open the main window's Favorites tab to pin a folder, drag-to-reorder them, and optionally assign a global keyboard shortcut like ⌥1 (Option-1) that jumps to that folder from any app.
4. Tune the right-click menu
Every menu item is a toggle. Open the main window's Toggles tab to switch off anything you'll never use, or to flip on advanced surfaces like SHA-256 checksum or Save .shasum. Changes apply on the next right-click — Finder caches its menus, so quitting and re-launching Finder is the surest way to see them.
5. Privacy in two sentences
FinderPilot makes no network calls. Diagnostics are local-only and only leave your Mac if you export them by hand and choose to share them with us — see the privacy page for the long version.
What's new — V1.0
- New FinderPilot main window with Welcome, Overview, Granted Folders, Favorites, Templates, Toggles, Diagnostics, About.
- New Stitch design system shipped end-to-end — light + dark mode parity for every screen, sheet, alert, and toast.
- New Recent Paths section in the menu-bar dropdown — bumped automatically by every successful Finder action.
- New Templates "Used N×" counter on every custom template.
- New global keyboard shortcuts for favorites — opt-in per-favorite via the Add Favorite sheet.
- New first-launch consent screen documents the privacy disclosure with no surprises.
- Existing surfaces refined: cascade-on-forget for granted folders, stale-bookmark re-grant flow, cross-process permission-denied alert.
Need a hand?
Email us at support@finderpilot.app with the diagnostics zip exported from Settings → Diagnostics → Export. We answer within one business day.