macOS has no cut for files. Finder’s ⌘X is permanently greyed out, and the real move gesture is ⌘C followed by ⌥⌘V — which almost nobody knows about, and which your fingers will never learn if they grew up on Windows.
CutX makes the obvious shortcut do the obvious thing. Press ⌘X on a file or folder, then ⌘V where you want it. The items move.
The design decision that shaped everything
CutX never touches your files — it asks Finder to do the move. On ⌘X it hands a copy to Finder; on ⌘V it triggers Finder’s own Move Item Here.
The alternative was to move files directly with FileManager, which would have meant re-implementing name-conflict handling, cross-volume copies, progress reporting and rollback — precisely the code where a bug destroys someone’s files. Delegating to Finder means undo, the progress window, the Replace / Keep Both dialog and authentication prompts all work exactly as they always do, because they really are Finder’s.
Built with
Swift and AppKit, no Xcode project — SwiftPM plus a shell script that assembles the bundle. A CGEventTap reads the keyboard; every decision funnels through one pure function with unit tests covering each case, because the guarantee that matters most is that ⌘X still cuts text everywhere outside Finder.
Signed and notarized, eleven languages including a properly mirrored Arabic interface, and free under the MIT licence.