What's New

Performance improvement for file encoding convert.

App Description

The squirrel climbing the tree of file system quickly.


Climber2 is a general purpose file system help utility that can be used to find file by walking through big folders with high performance, convert text encoding for all text files in a user selected folder, and or change line endings at the same time, and also can set up file attributes such as created and modified date time. This app was developed to deal with those tasks becomes comfortable and efficient.


Main Functions
1. Searching files with arbitrary combination of logical operations on file attributes.
2. Convert all files in a folder to a selected text encoding and or line endings.
3. Update created and or modified date time for all files in a selected folder.


Main Features
a. Filter file used to ignore file and folders for high performance searching.
b. Ignore big files for high performance searching.
c. Powerful Perl regular expression used for fuzzy file content searching.
d. Arbitrary combination of logical operations on different file attributes, such as file type, modified days, file size, etc.
e. Convert files to selected text encoding never mind what's encoding it's used, detect text encoding of a file automatically.
f. Automatically detect file type, judge a file is binary file or plain text file.
g. Automatically detect file type, judge a file is image, audio, video, or other type of file, and it is hidden file, symbolic link, is executable or not.
h. File searching supports content matching for binary files.
i. Update file created or modified date time with the precision to seconds.
j. Set up a new file extension name for all files in the selected folder.


Perl regular expression cheat sheet was designedly embedded in the app, the app can be conveniently used as a daily Perl regular expression training tool.

iPhone Screenshots

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App Changes

  • October 17, 2023 Initial release
  • November 14, 2023 New version 1.0.3
  • March 19, 2024 New version 1.0.4
  • March 19, 2024 Price decrease: $2.99 -> $1.99
  • March 26, 2024 Price increase: $1.99 -> $6.99