Better Rename 9 App Reviews

This stuff actually saves me tons of time. I love the way you can have multiple rename “steps” and the enormous variety of tricks you can do, such as adding parts of the path to the filename, using regular expressions and so on. Very cool for power users like myself. I do think that for people without an IT background the tool can be a bit daunting, but for us geeks this is very good stuff indeed.

This version does not have the create droplet feature like the downloadable one from their site for the EXACT SAME PRICE. That is stupid as you should be getting the same program regardless of where it was purchased. Very dishonest. Very unhappy. Buy Renamer instead. At least they are honest and you can get the same app regardless which method you use to purchase it with.

I use this tool almost daily. It does everything I need it to do. I like the fact that it shows me what the renamed files will be before I click on the Perform Renames button. Many thanks for writing such a useful app. It has saved me many hours of work.

I use this OFTEN for renaming all of my old photo collections that I never converted because it was always such a pain to do. This app WORKS. It well. It is easy to use and understand. Short learning curve (like a few minutes for basic stuff). I love that it shows me a preview of what the new names will look like after conversion. The app has saved me lots of time and frustration. I would recommend it to anyone without hesitation.

I use this app for business. Because we have to maintain compatibility with older software for some of , we cannot upgrade our OSX beyond 10.6.8. I bought this software last year and have used it without a problem. Its wonderful. But after another employee created issues that required us to do a clean install of OSX on this machine, when I try to reinstall Better Finder Rename, now it suddenly requires OSX 10.7. I can still use the trial that renames only 10 at a time, so why does the full version need a higher OS version? Wont let me install from the app store because of that. Why the increase in system requirements?

I can’t sing the praises of this software enough. I have tens of thousands of photos to wade through as I finally have begun to organize my archives and libraries. Automator works, but it is clunky at times. With the built-in presets, tasks like renaming my photos to a simple date-time format to make cataloging easier are stupid simple now. I’ve blown through a lot of repeatative drudgery quickly thanks to Better Renamer. I’m also a digital hoarder extraordinaire and my OCD makes me demand that all my movies and tv shows are named correctly when I have an entire series or seasons. I use Better Renamer with IVL Pro to make absolutely sure that all my files are properly named and formatted so Apple TV or PLEX will recognize and play nicely with everything. Better Renamer is what Automator should aspire to for ease of use. If I could give more than five stars, I’d double them. Kudos to the programmer!

I use this for renaming photos based on capture time and date. This allows me to have multiple camera memory cards’ files all grouped in one folder, therefore avoiding duplicate names.

This app does exactly what is says and is easy to learn. Very intuitive controls. All of the options I needed looking at a huge job of renaming about 2000 scanned negatives. Better Rename did the job in seconds! Well worth the small price.

I often have to rename numerous files and this app makes it very easy. The rules based approach is very flexible and provides all sorts of ways to rename files, including changing a specifc location in a name, wildcard replacements, file numbering, etc. You can also specify the order the repalcements are performed so if, for example, you wanted to replace all X’s in filenames but not any thet ar XY you can first replace XY with say ZZ, then replace all teh X’s then replace ZZ with XY. I have been using this app through several versions and it just gets better in every incarnation; well worth teh $20 if you need to do a lot of file renaming.

I’ve been looking for a Mac version of the Windows program “Advanced File Renamer” and settled on this as it has most (though not all) of the functionality of that program. Overall, it works well and gives you plenty of options for batch renaming files. In particular, I use this program frequently to rename batches of digital photos to the date/time taken for better sorting. There are ways to accomplish this same task using Script Editor, but I’m not interested in the hassle, so this program is nice as it makes the work easy. Stil…$20 seems a bit steep given that similar programs for Windows are free and have greater functionality.

Excellent program that is easy to use and works exactly as it should. I would give it 5 stars except that it is so expensive for what it does! $20, really??

Only good for batch operations. You cant click and view a file from within the app.

I’ve owned Better Rename for a couple of years now, and it is totally worth the price! The dev is a great guy and responsive to emails, and the licensing is very fair…I’ve not had to pay for any “upgrades”…you buy it, you got it. Period. As far as functionality goes…don’t believe the other reviews stating that it’s “limited” and so forth...it has a bazillion built-in options, but if you’ve got some esoteric thing and it’s not already there then you can build it using Regular Expressions. There are no limits, that I’ve run into, on how many changes you can make to the file names. You can change files to some name you want, remove text, add text, re-sequence, just keep piling on the “steps” until you’ve got what you want. I’ve renamed hundreds of thousands of files and it has never let me down. The “change to" panel shows you what you’re going to get, in real-time, so you see the changes as you apply the various options which allows you get exactly what you need, and the confidence that it’s going to do what you want so you don’t end up with a bunch of mis-named files. Check the other programs out, buy the bundle with the Folder Machine and you can mass manipulate files and folders to your hearts content. As far as I’m concerned, one of the best utilities I’ve purchased. -Rob

I’ve been using Better File Rename since I can remember and has always been my prefered tool for bulk renaming. This is one of a handful of Apps that I felt deserve 5 stars.

and it can’t read tags from FLAC files.

I am not sure why so many people are having issues. I have not had any since I downloaded the app a couple years ago. I am on OS X El capitan 10.11.4 and it works great. The userface is very simple and easy to use. The app is very quick at renaming the files as well. I love this app.