Panda Batch File Renamer offers an intuitive interface to rename photos, music, and general files. Files can be added from the clipboard or with the help of the built-in file browser. The files are then displayed with their folder path, original file name and final file name. The display options menu at the top offers options to add or remove parameters from the table. It is for instance possible to add meta data to the table.

The program updates the final file name whenever renaming options are added, edited or removed from the application.

The available renaming options are grouped into the four pulldown menus Insert, Replace, Remove and Other.

Options range from adding, replacing or removing text to adding information from meta tags if available. It is for instance possible to add the date or location photos were taken to the file name (if they exist of course). Multiple renaming options can be selected and positioned. It is possible to use drag and drop, and the Insert menu to select locations for each renaming option.

Each change is directly displayed in the program which can be used to verify the changes immediately.

Panda Batch File Renamer offers to save renaming patterns to make use of them at a later point in time. Especially the options to utilize file meta tags and the ability to save renaming patterns make Panda Batch File Renamer an interesting application.

The software can be downloaded from the developer website. It requires the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5.

Filters can be used to exclude or include files and folders. It is for instance possible to exclude hidden or system files from being renamed. Several different name manipulation rules can be added including adding, deleting, replacing or serializing characters.

Interesting is the support of various meta tag information that can be added to the filename. Supported are among others ID3, Avi, EXIF, IPTC, HASH and File information. This means that ReNamer can be used to rename photo, music or video collections with ease.

The screenshot above is demonstrating a basic renaming example. The first rule removes all characters with the exception of the file extension from the filename while the second rule adds the playing time and the file size as the name name for the selected files.

ReNamer can also be used to strip certain characters from files, cleanup file and folder names (remove brackets among other things) and transliterate non-English characters with English representations.

It provides furthermore access to regular expressions and Pascal Script for advanced renaming needs. Rules can be saved as presets that can be loaded into the application again at any time to perform the same renaming operations again.

The software is very responsive and definitely one of the best file renamers for the Windows platform.