File Watcher is a lightweight graphical Java based file watcher designed to be similar in functionality to tail. The application includes additional per-file features like pausing, setting polling frequency, font size, and buffer size, refresh, in-pause tail, and clear.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Added persistence of user preferences.
· Changed default tail size to 5KB and font size to 12.
· Fixed a memory overflow problem caused by loading large files in full upon opening. Now file watcher goes immediately into tail mode upon loading a file.