Cascade

A fast, beautiful file everything — built for power users.

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Cascade replaces your OS file manager with a column-based browser that shows your entire folder hierarchy at once. Navigate deep trees instantly, preview any file in place, tag files with colour-coded labels, and search your whole system in seconds — all in a beautifully designed, frameless window.

✨ Features

📂 Column browsing	Navigate nested folders side-by-side with smooth horizontal scrolling
🏷️ Custom tags	Create colour-coded tags and filter your entire filesystem by them
⚡ Instant search	Full-filesystem recursive search with fuzzy/typo-tolerant matching
🗂️ Smart folders	Built-in views for Recent, All Images, Large Files, Screenshots & Documents
👁️ Rich previews	Images, video, audio waveforms, text, code, PDFs — no separate app needed
🎨 Glassmorphic UI	Custom frameless window with smooth animations and accent colour themes
🤖 AI search	Smart natural-language search powered by Claude (optional, bring your own key)
📦 Archive browsing	Browse ZIP and 7z archives in-place without extracting
🪟 Shell integration	Windows context-menu "Open in Cascade" support

📥 Download

Free forever. No sign-up, no telemetry, no subscription.

Direct download

Platform	File	Notes
🪟 Windows	Cascade-Setup.exe	NSIS installer, 64-bit
🪟 Windows Store	Cascade.appx	MSIX package
🍎 macOS	Cascade-mac.dmg	Universal DMG
🐧 Linux	Cascade-linux.AppImage	AppImage, no install needed

Package managers

Windows — Scoop

scoop bucket add cascade-everything https://github.com/Idan4956/cascade-everything
scoop install cascade

Windows — winget (pending approval)

winget install Idan4956.Cascade

macOS — Homebrew (coming soon)

brew install --cask cascade-everything

Linux — AppImage (manual)

chmod +x Cascade-linux.AppImage
./Cascade-linux.AppImage

🔨 Build from source

Prerequisites: Node.js 20+, Git

git clone https://github.com/Idan4956/cascade-everything.git
cd cascade-everything
npm install

# Development (hot-reload)
npm run dev

# Production build
npm run package

Installers land in the release/ directory.

Environment variables

Variable	Description
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY	Enables AI-powered search (optional)

🤝 Contributing

Contributions of any size are welcome — bug fixes, new features, documentation improvements, or just a typo fix.

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a branch: git checkout -b feat/your-feature
3. Commit your changes
4. Open a pull request

See CONTRIBUTING.md for detailed guidelines.

📬 Contact

Questions, bug reports, feature requests → open an issue or email cascadefileeverything@gmail.com.

📄 License

MIT © Idan4956 — free to use, fork, and build on.

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_{If Cascade saves you time, a ⭐ on GitHub goes a long way!}