Is yazi still maintained?

Yes, active. Last change yesterday. Latest release v26.9.1, 2 months ago.

Widely used. 43k stars, 3 years old. As with any download, get it from the official repo.

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sxyazi/yazi

💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.

Rust#android#asyncio#cli#command-line

Before you start

Is it free?: YesOpen source (MIT).
Still maintained?: Yes, activeLast change yesterday. Latest release v26.9.1, 2 months ago.
Can I trust it?: Widely used43k stars, 3 years old. As with any download, get it from the official repo.

Difficulty: Easy
Time: about 5 min
Stars: ★ 43,364
Activity: Updated this month

Saved setup from 1 h ago

Will it work on macOS?

Yes, it installs on your macOS

A ready-made macOS download is in the latest release.

Your system

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Start here

Website ↗yazi-rs.github.ioThe project's own site.

Download for macOS

v26.9.1 · 9/1/2026 ↗

yazi-aarch64-apple-darwin.zip

zip · Apple Silicon · 12.4 MB · 10,383 downloads · best match

Download

If it contains an .app, move it to Applications.

curl -LO "https://github.com/sxyazi/yazi/releases/download/v26.9.1/yazi-aarch64-apple-darwin.zip"
unzip "yazi-aarch64-apple-darwin.zip"

Other macOS downloads (1)

yazi-x86_64-apple-darwin.zip

zip · Intel · 13.9 MB · 1,622 downloads

Download

If it contains an .app, move it to Applications.

curl -LO "https://github.com/sxyazi/yazi/releases/download/v26.9.1/yazi-x86_64-apple-darwin.zip"
unzip "yazi-x86_64-apple-darwin.zip"

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Parts list

1×Rust stableruntime

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Good to know

Cargo workspace — pick a crate with cargo run -p <name>.
Has AGENTS.md — instructions for coding agents. You can open Claude Code (or another agent) in the cloned folder and ask it to do the setup for you.
Nested projects: yazi-actor/Cargo.toml, yazi-adapter/Cargo.toml, yazi-binding/Cargo.toml, yazi-boot/Cargo.toml and 11 more

Details

License: MIT
Open issues: 70
Branch: main

Files we read (9)

.github/workflows/cachix.yml

.github/workflows/check.yml

.github/workflows/draft.yml

.github/workflows/lock.yml

.github/workflows/moderate.yml

.github/workflows/test.yml

CONTRIBUTING.md

Cargo.toml

README.md

1,601 files in the repo

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