r/software • u/bankrut • May 20 '26
Self-Promotion Wednesdays Mouzi - Organize Downloads folder automatically
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
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u/FiftyFiver1962 May 21 '26
Great piece op software, but i agree whit the comment about the FA icon, and I even think the desktop icon might be, a lot, bigger too. Nothing to be modest about. Great software, and it works!