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Advanced Renamer

Efficiently batch rename files or folders using customizable rules, real-time preview, EXIF and GPS-based metadata extraction, music and video tag integration, undo ability, command line automation, dark theme, and support for regular expressions or JavaScript.

Advanced Renamer 4.10

Cost / License

  • Free Personal
  • Proprietary

Application type

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
Advanced Renamer 4.10 (dark mode)
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Features

Properties

  1.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Batch Rename Files
  2.  Support for regular expressions
  3.  Tag based
  4.  File Renaming
  5.  Change File Dates
  6.  Timestamps
  7.  Portable
  8.  Works Offline
  9.  Dark Mode
  10.  File Tagging
  11.  Command line interface
  12.  Built-in viewer
  13.  Ad-free
  14.  Batch Editing
  15.  Support for scripting
  16.  MP3 / ID3 Renaming
  17.  No registration required
  18. File Explorer icon  Windows Explorer Extension
  19.  Mp3 Tag Editor
  20.  Command Line Options
  21.  Multiple languages

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Comments and Reviews

   
Comment summary: Advanced Renamer receives strong praise for its comprehensive features, custom presets, advanced scripting support, and ease of use, particularly for batch renaming and undo functionality. Users appreciate its free status, community support, and language availability. However, a few highlight drawbacks such as nagware popups, a cluttered or unintuitive UI, slower performance with large files, and concerns about user experience. Overall, it is considered among the best free renaming tools.
Top Positive Comment
Zogbob
1

Advertised as free - but it shows "NOT REGISTERED" in it's window top bar. Also, after using it some time, maybe after 10 launches, it showed a popup "consider donating". So Advanced Renamer is free, but has nagware features.

UI is a bit cluttered, and it's also slower than for example, Bulk Rename Utility. Dragging 100+ video files makes it show "analyzing" for some seconds, where as BRU this is instant.

Also, UX might be better. Renaming takes several clicks, first you have to click "Start Batch" button in the upper right corner, then a popup appears in the middle of window, and then you'll have to click Start, which also has a Cancel button on it's right side... not a nice pattern, if you repeat this many times often. I didn't find an option to disable the popup - although I didn't search too much either.

Version: 3.83

Plusses:

  • Free
  • Can rename both files and folders
  • Can create custom tasks that can be saved for later use (add prefix, change case etc)

Minuses:

  • Nagware features
  • Slightly messy UI, UX could be way better with small layout tweaks

Definitely not a bad piece of software.

DL300
0

this has the worst UX I have ever seen in any software. i used it years ago and somehow it is now worse, I am almost impressed that must have taken a lot of work. I could not have imagined it being worse but here we are

webhunted
0

Free and very advanced!

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Paulo Castro Oliveira
0

With this app, you can perform virtually all types of file renaming, with filter functions when loading and post-loading files to be renamed. It also presents, in real time, and before the renaming, the modifications to the files and, even if they are later renamed, there is an "undo" function to reverse the action.

NB: To get the most out of this app, you should learn to use the capabilities of using "regular expressions" (RegEx) (there's a little syntax help built into the app itself!).

danteg
0

Its very easy and at the same time complete

zaxx
-1

Free, Portable, Easy to use, Great interface, Quite advanced with scripting support, Best renamer utility in my opinion

Onurtag
0

Best renaming software available. Completely free.

7 of 13 comments

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What is Advanced Renamer?

Advanced Renamer is a software for renaming multiple files and folders. It offers 13 methods to modify file names and timestamps in one operation and allows copying or moving files based on file information. Users can add, remove, replace, change case, or rename files and can verify the accuracy of the output before execution. The software has an undo feature for mistakes.

Advanced Renamer is useful for managing large photo collections, extracting metadata such as date, time, dimensions, and camera model for file names. It can use embedded GPS information in image or video files to customize file names with the location where the photo was taken, by matching geographic coordinates against a database of over 100,000 cities.

For music files, Advanced Renamer can rename tracks based on details like artist, album, and genre from the built-in metadata support. For video files, it can include details like the video codec, resolution, frame rate, or audio bitrate in the file names.

Key features include support for Windows and macOS, dark theme, real-time preview of new names, tag-based renaming, image renaming with EXIF and XMP support, renaming with MP3/ID3 metadata, use of regular expressions and wildcards, renaming with JavaScript, video tags, GPS information, Unicode and UTF8 support, undo feature, multiple renaming methods, batch modes for renaming, and automated renaming with command line batch runner.

Advanced Renamer information

  • Developed by

    DK flagHulubulu Software (Kim Jensen)

  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Free Personal product.

  • Pricing

    One time purchase (perpetual license) ranging between $25 and $40.

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.4 (13 ratings)

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  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • Arabic
    • Bulgarian
    • Catalan; Valencian
    • Czech
    • Danish
    • German
    • Spanish
    • Finnish
    • French
    • Indonesian
    • Italian
    • Japanese
    • Korean
    • Norwegian Bokmål
    • Dutch
    • Polish
    • Portuguese
    • Romanian
    • Slovene
    • Turkish
    • Ukrainian
    • Vietnamese
    • Chinese

Our users have written 13 comments and reviews about Advanced Renamer, and it has gotten 95 likes

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