FinderBack

Back & Forward navigation in Finder’s right-click menu

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September 17, 2026 I built FinderBack to fix one tiny macOS Finder annoyance

I kept wishing Finder had Back and Forward controls directly in the right-click menu, so I built it.

FinderBack is a small macOS utility that adds those controls to Finder’s context menu so folder navigation is faster.

The project is open source, and there’s also a ready-to-run version for people who don’t want to build it themselves.

Demo + download:
https://finderbac.fdse064.workers.dev/

Source:
https://github.com/adfd3ewdf3/FinderBack

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FinderBack exists because I kept getting annoyed by the same tiny Finder workflow: going Back or Forward always meant moving back up to the toolbar. I wanted those controls right where I was already clicking, in the Fin