Floppy opens your old files in the programs that made them.

Extensions for Floppy

Paid add-ons, loaded like overlays onto the main program. Floppy never needs them and never nags about them. Each one runs as its own app, and hands Floppy what it finds.

Diskette

C:\ANSIAPPS\DISKETTE.OVL

Every drive you own, searchable with none of them plugged in.

Paid extension to Floppy

Scan a hard drive, a CD, a USB stick or a folder once, and Diskette keeps a catalog of everything on it, right down to thumbnails of the photos. Years later, find that one file from your desk while the drive stays in its drawer. It's the card catalog your box of disks always deserved.

What's on the disk

• Photo thumbnails and a grid view, so you can flip through a drive's pictures with the drive unplugged.
• Search more than file names: artist, album, camera, author, year, duration, page count. Try year:1990-1999.
• Scans in passes: every file is cataloged fast, then details and thumbnails fill in while you keep browsing.
• Looks inside zip, 7z and CAB archives, so a file packed away in 1998 still turns up.
• Spots old formats and the apps that open them: MacWrite, ClarisWorks, WordPerfect, tracker music, DOS archivers.
• Burn A CD gathers copies scattered across all your drives into one disc image, classic Mac resource forks included.

In development · macOS first

Crunchy

C:\ANSIAPPS\CRUNCHY.OVL

Find duplicate files, prove they're identical, reclaim the space safely.

Paid extension to Floppy

Nine copies of the same photo backup across four drives? Crunchy finds them, proves they match with BLAKE3 hashes, and moves the extras to the Trash. Then Smart Move folds that stray backup into your master copy without clobbering a thing. It will never let you throw away the last copy. Every archivist has a story about the last copy.

What's on the disk

• Smart Move merges an incoming folder into your master copy. It plans every move first and changes nothing until you say so.
• Never overwrites: across disks, each copy is re-hashed against its original before the original goes to the Trash.
• Size first, then a sample, then a full hash: nothing is called a duplicate until it's proven.
• Respects classic Mac files: resource forks and type/creator codes are flagged, never auto-selected.
• Understands APFS clones, so the space it promises is space you actually get back.
• Pairs with Diskette to show copies on drives that aren't even plugged in.

In development · macOS first

Floppy, plus two extensions

Floppy works on its own. Add the extensions and they cover the whole trip, from a forgotten drive to a file opened in the program that made it.

1. Diskette catalogs every drive, disc and folder you own, once.
2. Floppy asks Diskette for the ROMs, system disks and old apps it's still missing. Diskette burns every copy you have to a disc image and hands it straight back, and Floppy keeps an undamaged one.
3. Crunchy shares hashes with Diskette, so duplicates show up across all your drives, even the ones in the drawer. Smart Move then folds the strays into your master copy.

House rules

• Floppy is free, always

  No price, no trial, no paid tier. It's free software under the GPL, published only here, with its source and the emulators' source a click away.

• Your files stay home

  No accounts, no cloud, no telemetry. Not even this page sets a cookie.

• Old formats are first-class

  Resource forks, type/creator codes, 8.3 names and HFS disks are handled with care, not stripped.

• Two looks, same app

  A modern theme, and an ANSIapps theme straight out of a DOS box. Tick the box at the top of this page to try it.

• Made to be kept

  Catalogs export to a single backup file. The whole point is that things last.