diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 63b0479fd..0dcfe7f32 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ Suggests:
     data.tree (>= 0.1.6),
     digest,
     dplyr,
+    furrr,
+    future,
     here,
     knitr,
     prettycode,
diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index 67f3fcd43..88f12cd8d 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ importFrom(purrr,when)
 importFrom(rlang,abort)
 importFrom(rlang,is_empty)
 importFrom(rlang,is_installed)
+importFrom(rlang,local_options)
 importFrom(rlang,seq2)
 importFrom(rlang,warn)
 importFrom(rlang,with_handlers)
diff --git a/R/transform-files.R b/R/transform-files.R
index d21ce666c..649c25845 100644
--- a/R/transform-files.R
+++ b/R/transform-files.R
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 #' styling whether or not it was actually changed (or would be changed when
 #' `dry` is not "off").
 #' @keywords internal
+#' @importFrom rlang local_options
 transform_files <- function(files, transformers, include_roxygen_examples, base_indention, dry) {
   transformer <- make_transformer(transformers, include_roxygen_examples, base_indention)
   max_char <- min(max(nchar(files), 0), getOption("width"))
@@ -19,9 +20,23 @@ transform_files <- function(files, transformers, include_roxygen_examples, base_
     cat("Styling ", len_files, " files:\n")
   }
 
-  changed <- map_lgl(files, transform_file,
-    fun = transformer, max_char_path = max_char, dry = dry
-  )
+  if (rlang::is_installed("furrr")) {
+    if (inherits(future::plan(), "uniprocess")) {
+      local_options(future.supportsMulticore.unstable = "quiet")
+      oplan <- future::plan("multiprocess")
+      on.exit(future::plan(oplan), add = TRUE)
+    }
+
+    changed <- furrr::future_map_lgl(files, transform_file,
+      fun = transformer, max_char_path = max_char, dry = dry,
+      .progress = TRUE
+    )
+  } else {
+    changed <- map_lgl(files, transform_file,
+      fun = transformer, max_char_path = max_char, dry = dry
+    )
+  }
+
   communicate_summary(changed, max_char)
   communicate_warning(changed, transformers)
   new_tibble(list(file = files, changed = changed), nrow = len_files)