Is FileOctopus secure?

Legit.Show measured FileOctopus's Security frame at 65/100. Security headers present: HSTS, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy. Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.

How does Legit.Show measure FileOctopus?

Legit.Show scores seven frames — Performance, Accessibility, Security, Privacy, Reliability, Standards and Discoverability — deterministically from the public surface (URL, HTTP headers, real Lighthouse), with no LLM in the scoring path. See legit.show/methodology.

Productivity

FileOctopus

Last updated 2026-11-10 · benchmark measured 2026-11-10 — deterministic & reproducible

FileOctopus is a file manager for Mac with a free tier and a one-time-purchase PRO option.

89/100

7/7 frames

Top 25% of 19,084 measured · #3 of 8 in file manager

Legit Benchmark — the simple average of 7 measured frames. Frames we could not measure are left out of the average, never counted as zero. Every frame is shown below with its evidence.

Checked 2026-11-10 · scores move as sites change

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Legit.Show scored FileOctopus 89/100 on 2026-11-10, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/fileoctopus-com/2026-11-10

Is FileOctopus production-ready?

Legit.Show scores FileOctopus 89 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on FileOctopus (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Accessibility; its weakest is Security. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

Performance — 93/100
Accessibility — 100/100
Security — 65/100
How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
Privacy — 100/100
How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
Reliability — 70/100
Standards — 92/100
Discoverability — 100/100

What we measured

Security headers present: HSTS, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy.
No Content-Security-Policy.
Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
Real Lighthouse performance run — 41 ms to first byte.
Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
0 of 1 sampled routes reachable.
Has a reachable privacy policy.
Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.

Who built it

Max Luong · product account @_nghialuong

Who it's for

Mac users · Power users seeking advanced file management · Users wanting Finder alternative · macOS 15+ users · Indie software supporters

Pricing

Free forever; PRO one-time purchase $29.99 (launch price $14.99 first 100, $19.99 next 200 until Nov 30; Black Friday 50% off $14.99 Nov 27-30)

Sources and updates

Description: Taken from fileoctopus.com's own website on 2026-11-10.
Operator: Max Luong, as named in fileoctopus.com's terms, privacy page or footer.
Benchmark: Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-11-10.

Put together from public information, without FileOctopus's involvement. If anything here is wrong, tell us and a person will check it.

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