I built a tiny Windows batch-renaming tool — looking for brutally honest feedback
Hey everyone,
I just finished and released my first small desktop software project, and I'm mainly posting it here because I want feedback.
It's called Batch Renamer.
It's a very simple Windows utility for renaming multiple files at once.
The idea is deliberately boring:
Drop/select your files
Define a naming pattern
Preview the result
Rename them
The processed files are placed into a separate BR\_results folder
I wanted to keep it extremely lightweight, so it's portable. There's no installer, account system, subscription, ads, or cloud processing.
The application runs locally on the user's computer.
There is also no "AI" component collecting data or secretly sending files somewhere. The files being renamed stay on the local machine.
I built it because I wanted a tool that could just do one thing without turning into a giant application.
I'm not looking for customers or trying to sell anything here. I genuinely want to know whether this is actually useful to other people.
I'd especially appreciate criticism:
\- Is the UI understandable?
\- Is the workflow intuitive?
\- Would you actually use something like this?
\- Is there anything that feels unnecessary?
\- Is there something obvious that I'm missing?
\- Would the portable-folder approach bother you?
\- Is there anything about the way the files are handled that you would change?
If you think it's pointless, that's useful feedback too. I'd rather hear that now than spend another month building something nobody needs.
GitHub release: https://github.com/abdullahMTQ/batchrenamer
It's completely free at the moment.
Windows warning: Because the release is currently unsigned and uses a .bat launcher, Windows may show a security warning saying "Unknown Publisher." This is a Windows trust/signing warning, not an application error. You can inspect the files yourself before running them.
Thanks to anyone who takes a look. I'm genuinely interested in what you think.