About Limintel
Building tools that respect your time and your hardware.
Our story
Limintel PTY LTD is an Australian software company focused on building high-performance file management tools for Windows.
We started with a simple observation: the tools people use every day to manage files — copying, moving, organizing, verifying — haven't kept pace with modern hardware. NVMe drives capable of 7 GB/s are bottlenecked by software designed for spinning disks. Power users juggle a dozen separate utilities for tasks that belong in one place.
Brutal Copy 2 is our answer: a complete file operations platform that combines the fastest copy engine on Windows with 5 built-in power tools (12 more on the way), a scripting engine, and deep shell integration — all in a single, professional application.
Brutal Zip brings the same approach to ZIP archives.
Our mission
We believe software should be as fast as the hardware it runs on. Every unnecessary abstraction, every wasted allocation, every idle millisecond is a failure of engineering. Our products are built from the ground up to extract maximum performance from your system while providing a polished, professional experience.
Our approach
Performance first
Raw P/Invoke, zero-allocation paths, device-aware tuning. We measure in microseconds.
Integrated
One tool that replaces a dozen. Every feature designed to work together seamlessly.
Enterprise ready
Server-side licensing, comprehensive CLI, thorough testing, and professional UI.
From the founder
I'm James Grice, and I've spent almost eight years on Brutal Copy chasing a single question: how fast can copying files actually be?
It started with an ordinary, stubborn problem — copying thousands of small files to a network share, over and over. Eventually I hit a breaking point. There had to be a faster way, a better way. So I started tinkering.
What followed was eight years of trial and error: trying ideas people said wouldn't work, chasing a few percent here and a few percent there, taking no shortcuts — chipping away at what the hardware is truly capable of. Each small win pushed me harder. Where most people throw their hands up and say “it is what it is,” I couldn't let it go — I always knew there was more performance to squeeze out. Those gains compounded, year after year, into the engine Brutal Copy runs on today.
— James Grice, Founder, Limintel
Based in Australia
Limintel PTY LTD is headquartered in Australia. We serve customers worldwide.
For business inquiries, partnerships, or support: info@limintel.com
Try the software
Brutal Copy 2 is free to try for 30 days. Brutal Zip is free to use.