I'm looking for a Finder plugin that can also create files. The standard Finder can only create folders.

Create a "New File" Quick Action in Finder 1. Open Automator Launch Automator (Applications or Spotlight). New Document → choose Quick Action. 2. Configure the workflow At the top of the workflow: Workflow receives current: files or folders in: Finder.app 3. Add the script Drag Run AppleScript from the library into the workflow area. Replace the placeholder code with: on run {input, parameters} if (count of input) > 0 then set target to item 1 of input tell application "System Events" if kind of (disk item (POSIX path of target)) is "Folder" then set currentFolder to target else set currentFolder to (container of disk item (POSIX path of target)) as alias end if end tell else tell application "Finder" set currentFolder to (folder of the front Finder window) as alias end tell end if set fileName to text returned of (display dialog "File name:" default answer "new_file.txt") set filePath to (POSIX path of currentFolder) & fileName do shell script "touch " & quoted form of filePath tell application "Finder" reveal (POSIX file filePath as alias) end tell end run 4. Save File → Save, name it e.g. New File. 5. Use it In Finder, right-click a file or folder → Quick Actions → New File. If no item is selected, the action uses the frontmost Finder window's folder. Maybe you have to restart the mac first...

The plugin you're looking for is NewFile. It does exactly what you need: create files of various types, including Markdown, Word, Excel, RTF, Text, Pages, Python, Shell, and more. You can add as many file types and apps as you like. You can also incorporate templates. Development is ongoing. It's free.

Probably https://apps.apple.com/us/app/newfile-quick-file-creation/id1629057582

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/newfile-quick-file-creation/id1629057582?l=es-MX&mt=12

I personally use Supercharge. It's does a lot more than just creating files, but you can choose to make a new file in the right click menu or with a keyboard shortcut. I personally use both. You can also have templates. For example I can right click and have a markdown template that already has some headings and bullets

What kind of files are you trying to create? Raycast has a plugin that might be of interest: https://www.raycast.com/koinzhang/easy-new-file

NewFileMenu (on the App Store) adds "New Document" to Finder's right-click menu. You pick which file types show up in the submenu (txt, md, rtf, or anything else you add a template for). Free version is fine for most uses, pro is cheap if you want custom templates. If you prefer a built-in path: Automator → "New Quick Action" → "Run Shell Script" with `touch "$1/Untitled.txt"` and save. It'll appear in Finder's right-click under Quick Actions. More fiddly but zero third-party.

Heads up — the standard right-click entry doesn't work reliably in iCloud Drive. iCloud registers its own Finder Sync extension and macOS only lets one register per folder, so NewFileMenu gets locked out there. Workaround (the dev actually recommends this for cloud folders): turn on Quick Actions in NewFileMenu's settings. It then shows up under right-click → Quick Actions and works fine inside iCloud. One small gotcha if you go that route: in nested iCloud folders, hitting Return in the save dialog sometimes saves to the iCloud Documents root instead of the folder you right-clicked. Click Save with the mouse, or toggle "don't ask for filename" in prefs.

I use the Bloom File Manager mostly and it has the feature included as do some other Finder replacements I'm sure. But, occasionally, I work in Finder and it's in Supercharge (with templates) which is awesome for generating markdown files, etc.

There's a lot of options for this purpose, but in my opinion NewFile is the best

I use ContextMenu which can do this and lots more. There's a free lite version and paid full version. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/context-menu/id1236813619?mt=12 I blogged about doing this kind of thing https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2024/07/30/taking-command-of-the-context-menu-in-macos/

For $1 you can buy QMenu which do several other things as well: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/qmenu/id1567442612?mt=12

also looking for something like this

Lots of options, here's another one that does that and other things: https://fileutils.com

It's very easy to do your own, using automator, or xcode

Maybe its just me, but i just use the terminal and write touch lol i agree that there should be an option to do that from macos finder tho

I’m still on the hunt for the best tool for this task as well. Hard to believe that Apple has not yet built this into MacOS/Finder. Thank you op, and all others with options to look into!