Rename your files and folders directly or with your favorite text editor, making use of all your 1337 keyboard shortcuts 😉 Works on Windows, Mac, and Linux 🎉
Simplest File Renamer was created by Boris Yakubchik. It uses Angular and Tauri. It carries an MIT license.
The download links for all platforms are located on the app's public webpage with identical links on the GitHub Releases page.
Main dependencies in use:
| Library | Version | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Angular | v22 | Jun 2026 |
| Tauri | v2.11.5 | Jun 2026 |
You will need to install tauri to develop and build this app. See instructions
Once you install node and npm just run npm install
After that npm run dev to develop & npm run build to build. npm run tauri build -- --no-bundle to build a portable version on Windows
Version 1.0.0 of this application was released February 2020. It was initially built with Electron, but in July 2026 I finally found time to update the code to use Tauri. The installation in 2020 was about 50mb, but building basically the same code in 2026 with Electron made the installer about 130mb. By switching to Tauri the resulting build is now about 3mb.
This software would not be possible without the tremendous work by other people. An incomplete list:
A huge personal thank you to Percipient24 for always helping me when I ask for coding help, and for his code that inspired this project 🙇♂️
The original code started as the angular-electron boilerplate by belnadris.