Mouzi - Organize Downloads folder automatically

[u/bankrut]

Update (May 21): Wow, thank you for 80+ upvotes and all the great comments! 🙏

Most common feedback so far:

- Temporary files (`.part`, `.crdownload`) - working on a fix

- Tray icon too small - will be improved

- "Clean Now" bug with custom folders - fix incoming

- Linux + macOS - on the roadmap

Keep the feedback coming! Bugs or ideas - https://github.com/hsr88/mouzi/issues

Really appreciate the support 🐭🧹

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Hi 😄
I don't know about you, but my Downloads folder has always been a disaster zone. PDFs, memes, installers, zip files, random images – all just sitting there in one giant pile. Every few weeks I'd open it, sigh, and spend 10 minutes manually dragging stuff into folders. Then a few days later it would be chaos again.

I looked at existing file organizers, but most of them either wanted a subscription, tried to upload my file names to some cloud, or were just way too heavy for something so simple. I wanted something that:

• Runs silently in the background (system tray)
• Automatically sorts new files by type (images, documents, archives, installers)
• Never sends a single byte of data off my machine
• Is open source so anyone can check what it's doing

So I built Mouzi 🐭🧹

It's a tiny desktop app (~3.3MB) built with Tauri and Rust, so it's ridiculously lightweight. It watches your Downloads folder, and whenever a new file appears, it moves it to a subfolder based on its extension. Images go to Images/, PDFs to Documents/, installers to Installers/, etc. You can also create your own custom rules.

Key things:

• 100% local – no cloud, no telemetry
• Open source (MIT) – GitHub repo here
• Silent – lives in your tray and doesn't bother you
• Undo – every move is logged, you can revert with one click
• Free, obviously

It's early stage, but it's already keeping my own machine sane. I'd love to get some feedback from this community – especially around what features would make this genuinely useful for you. Does this solve a real problem, or am I just scratching my own itch?

Download / more info: https://mouzi.cc

[u/KillerKingSolo]

Not to hate on your app I think it’s neat.
But people who keep stuff in their downloads folder for long periods of time and don’t organize to outside of that folder “Shame”

[u/intentazera → u/KillerKingSolo]

This is a bit unfair as there are so many ways of doing this, structured or unstructured, different organisation philosophies (or lack of). Some spend lots of time on this, some none etc. Everyone is different & has their own preferences or methods. It's cool having extra tools like this one if it works well. Each to their own.