Top 20 Tools To Mass Rename Multiple Files At Once

One of the best way to organize and mange files is to name them scientifically. However, renaming many files takes time and effort and it seems to be a “impossible mission” if you intend to manually to do this. In this post, I collect 20 best utilities written exclusively for batch renaming files and folders. Some are for renaming MP3 files or photos only, and the rest are for common file formats.

Top 20 Tools To Mass Rename Multiple Files At Once:

ReNamer is a small, yet very flexible file renaming tool, that offers all the standard renaming procedures, including prefixes, suffixes, replacements, case changes and more. In addition, it can also remove brackets, add number sequences, remove digits or symbols and change file extensions.

UltimateReNamerJG is a small and simple software that permit to batch-rename multiple files depending to a set of rules. You can insert an unlimited number of rules that can delete a part of the file name, or replace soma character with another one, change extensions, insert text to a specific position and many more.

The GodFather: You can define your own renaming formats using Tag fields, File/Folder name or Tokens, Mpeg bitrate/mode as variables. Powerful case conversion including custom case and all the options you would ever want. Smart filters enable you to have only the files that are potentially wrong listed for renaming. Further refine your list to be processed by marking files to be skipped or ever edit the end result your self.

Siren is a freeware file renaming utility that lets you batch rename files using a regular expression. A lot of information associated to a file can be used to rename it such as Name, base name, extension, size, date and time, numeric or non numeric parts of the name.

Genial renamer is a small utility that will help you to rename all files using a genial idea. It renames all files in a folder and all its sub-folders using a name pattern provided by user.

Rename Master is a utility for renaming large groups of files with a few clicks. This utility will add, remove, or replace parts of the filename with ease and also supports renaming via file properties, MP3 tags, JPEG JFIF and EXIF tags. Batch renaming that's simple to use, yet still very powerful.

Shock View is an image viewer for digital camera users. It provides cute picture frames or clip arts and functions such as crop, resizing, converting, dynamic GIF, and combining several pictures etc. and one of significant feature is that your can batch rename photos.

Peter's Flexible Renaming Kit  is a freeware bulk file renaming program that runs under Windows. With this tool you can easily organize your music files, picture files, or any other types of files. It comes equipped with many features, some of which you won't find on any other renaming program. The beauty of this tool is that you can easily build any renaming command sequence you like, preview all of the results, press the rename button, and you're done!

Mp3tag is a powerful and yet easy-to-use tool to edit metadata (ID3, Vorbis Comments and APE) of common audio formats. It supports online freedb database lookups for selected files, allowing you to automatically gather proper tag information for select files or CDs. And it can rename files based on the tag information, replace characters or words from tags and filenames.

ID3 renamer is a software created to be a very powerful tag editor. Useful if you need to rename a large number of files in a directory accordingly to their ID3 description and a given "formula". It can also create a new tag if there is none in the file yet; it lets you easily write into new files too. You can also fill tag according to search in FreeDB database of CDs. There is a complete description of CD and then it's easy to fill the tag with this information.

HiTech Smart File Rename is a small, simple and easy-to-use tool that allows you to rename all the copied files with just one click. Just set the files to search for and indicate the file folder. One click and everything is completed.

xren is an utility developed for renaming and moving files. It supports a very flexible wildcard syntax using the symbols "*" and "?" in arbitrary combination and sequence. Thus the renaming capabilities are far more powerful than what Windows users are used to.

Lupas Rename is a freeware application designed to rename a big number of files. It can rename files in recursive subdirectories, integrated with Window Explorer, filter files to rename by wildcards and load or edit a text file in a Small Editor to help renaming files.

AmoK Exif Sorter is a useful program that can rename photos according to their EXIF-data written to the photo-file by the digital camera. It supports virtually all EXIF-Tags such as date picture taken; brightness, maxaperture, focallength, fnumber, aperture and many more. Photos can be renamed, copied or moved and AmoK Exif Sorter offers many more features. Besides, it can also move or copy them to arbitrary folders. These folders again, can be named according to the EXIF data.

Debs Karaoke Renamer is a free tool which allows you to quickly rename multiple Karaoke Zip Files. It can save you entire hours by letting you include subdirectories and recursively renaming multiple files at once. It offers a multiple or single-file mode which allows you to select multiple folders and files, or simply an individual file to be renamed. There are built in options for cleaning up messy karaoke file names, replacing underscores with spaces, formating dashes and dividers, removing double spaces, capitalizing, and lots more.

ZippyBackflash Batch Renamer is a free and useful batch file naming utility which allows you to select multiple files to rename, and rename them as a group using a common prefix and sequentially numbering each renamed file. Typical uses would likely be organizing image collections, or sound clips.

Ant Renamer is a free program that makes easier the renaming of lots of files and folders by using specified settings. It can support Unicode names, changing extensions, replace character strings by others, enumerate, change case, etc. It can also rename using metadata for audio files as well as the last modified date and time.

Free Font Renamer is a font utility that changes fonts collection name. You easily select a folder with fonts and click the Rename button and that's all. It will automatically find out which font each file contains and give it the corresponding name.

FaJo FileRenamer helps to rename a large number of files at once using a simple file name pattern. The destination file name consists of three parts: <prefix>NNNNNNNN<suffix>. Where <prefix> and <suffix> are user defined strings. NNNNNNNN is a eight digit number that will be incremented by one for every renamed file. The file extension will be the same as for the source file.

Flexible Renamer is a file and folder renaming tool, which can use Wildcard or Regular-Expression and Tag-information. It is a very useful application if you want to rename multiple files with ease. You can insert/remove a string or a number in the filenames, modify the file attributes while renaming, and set a specific or random the date/time for renamed files.