Commander

File management utility and image viewer. The program has an effective split screen interface with two directory views or a directory view and a file viewer. The image...

Free
Windows

File management utility and image viewer. The program has an effective split screen interface with two directory views or a directory view and a file viewer.The image viewer can launch MeeSoft Image Analyzer for editing images.

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Double Commander

Double Commander is a cross platform open source file manager with two panels side by side. It is inspired by Total Commander and features some new ideas.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

Optimal performance Dual pane support Search in Archives Dark theme Tree view Lua scripting Flat view
159 Like

fman

Brings features from Sublime Text to the file manager niche. Features: a user interface similar to ST, Ctrl/Cmd+P for jumping to any directory, plugins based on the Python programming language

Commercial

Dual pane support Plugin API
143 Like

Q-Dir

Q-Dir makes your files and folder easy to manage. Fast and easy access, with an amazing Quadro-View (4 panes) technique. You dont have to renounce the usual, Drag and Drop, all Views, and other functions of your system.

Free Windows

Customizable Portable Drag n drop Split screen view
98 Like

QTTabBar

QTTabBar is an extension for Windows Explorer that brings tabbed browsing to Microsoft's file browser.

Free Windows Windows Explorer

Tabbed browsing Windows Explorer integration File preview Windows Explorer extension
97 Like

Thunar

Thunar is a new modern file manager for the Xfce Desktop Environment. Thunar has been designed from the ground up to be fast and easy-to-use. Its user interface is clean and intuitive, and does not include any confusing or useless options.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux MacPorts XQuartz Xfce
85 Like

xplorer²

xplorer² is a desktop file manager combining the simplicity of windows explorer with the speed and efficiency of traditional dual pane orthodox file managers, helping you be productive with your documents, pictures, music, source code...

Freemium Windows
80 Like

Explorer++

Explorer++ is a free file manager for Windows.

Free Open Source Windows

Portable Tabbed interface
57 Like

CubicExplorer

CubicExplorer is a file manager which is aimed to replace Windows Explorer. It’s goal is to be easy and pleasant to use but still have enough power for more advanced usage. Its key features are tabs and bookmarks.

Free Open Source Windows

Customizable Portable File search File preview Built in Text editor
31 Like

NexusFile

NexusFile is a file manager for Windows. You can manage many files very fast and easily. NexusFile will increase your computing performance. If you still use Windows Explorer, you must try this one.

Free Windows

Dual pane support Multi tabs
22 Like

Nomad.NET

Nomad.NET is a powerful dual-pane file manager complete with breadcrumbs, thumbnails, integration with explorer plugins, and even support for multiple tabs. Using Nomad.NET requires very little explanation.

Free Windows
17 Like

GNOME Commander

GNOME Commander is a "two-pane" graphical file manager for the GNOME desktop environment.

Free Open Source Linux

Dual pane support Support for FTP
15 Like

Proto

Proto is a fast, next-gen, freeware file manager. Unlike all the Norton Commander clones, this project introduces interesting and new approach to handling files. Incorporates some of the Jef Raskin's ideas regarding “Humane Interface”.

Free Windows
13 Like

Tux Commander

tux commander is a windowed file manager with 2 panels side by side similar to popular total commander or midnight commander file managers.

Free Open Source Linux Xfce

Dual pane support Support for FTP Support for SFTP
12 Like

Vifm

Vifm is a ncurses based file manager with vi like keybindings. If you use vi, vifm gives you complete keyboard control over your files without having to learn a new set of commands.

Free Open Source Windows Linux
10 Like

UltraExplorer

UltraExplorer is a Windows Explorer replacement that will change the way you think about file management. Other Explorer replacement applications duplicate the same old paradigm introduced by Microsoft in Windows 95.

Free Windows

Tree view Miller columns
10 Like

Marlin

Marlin is a new GTK3-based file manager for Linux, pretty slick and fast. Unlike most other file managers Marlin has included the so called "Miller columns" view.

Free Open Source Linux

Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Tabbed browsing Dropbox integration Miller columns
10 Like

Just Manager

Just Manager is a feature packed, versatile, multi-tabbed multi-pane file manager for the Windows operating system. It is available in both x86 and x64 versions. Despite its many features it is relatively small and efficient.

Free Windows

Multiple languages Tabbed interface Dual pane support Support for Unicode
10 Like

ExplorerXP

ExplorerXP is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE file manager for Windows 2000/XP.

Free Personal Windows
5 Like

FenrirFS

FenrirFS is a file management software where you can easily view everything in 3 different modes and manage any kind of file using labels.

Free Windows

Tag based Multiple languages Automatic Tagging Tree view File preview Auto scan folder
5 Like

DCommander

DCommander is a two-pane file manager that gives you full control over your computer's filesystem.

Commercial

Customizable Built in viewer Drag n drop Dual pane support File compression Secure Copy (SCP)

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