Far Manager

Far Manager is a program for managing files and archives in Windows operating systems.

Free
Open Source
Windows

Far Manager is a program for managing files and archives in Windows operating systems. Far Manager works in text mode and provides a simple and intuitive interface for performing most of the necessary actions:

* viewing files and directories; * editing, copying and renaming files; * and many other actions.

Links to official Far Manager sites

Features

Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Support for Keyboard Shortcuts Dual pane support Plugin support Command line interface Console based

The Best 25 Far Manager Alternatives

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Total Commander

Total Commander is a shareware Orthodox File Manager (OFM) for Windows. Some features include a built-in FTP client, file compare, archive file navigation, and a multi-rename tool with regular expression support.

Commercial Windows Android Android Tablet Windows Mobile

Portable Built in player Multiple languages Directory sync Dual pane support File compression Copy files Support for FTP Function Key Shortcuts Search in Archives Support for Unicode
333 Like

FreeCommander

An alternative windows file manager with advanced features similar to total commander.

Free Windows

Portable Capture Screen / Take screenshots File sync Directory sync Dual pane support Batch rename files File search Explorer like Comparing folders
325 Like

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
178 Like

Midnight Commander

GNU Midnight Commander is a visual file manager, licensed under GNU General Public License and therefore qualifies as Free Software.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD MacPorts Cygwin

Minimalistic Lightweight Dual pane support File compression Support for FTP Support for SFTP SSH Console based Mounting drives
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
139 Like

XYplorer

XYplorer is a file manager for Windows.

Freemium

Portable Dual pane support Scriptable Batch rename files Photo Organization Batch processing Duplicate Files Finder Scripting language Flat view
103 Like

muCommander

muCommander is a lightweight, cross-platform file manager with a dual-pane interface. It runs on any operating system with Java support (Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, *BSD, Solaris...).

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD Web Java

Portable Dual pane support SSH
95 Like

One Commander

Free dual-pane file manager for Windows featuring tabs, columns, themes, long filename support, image converter, regex renaming and many other unique features.

Free Windows

Portable Tabbed interface Image Preview Dual pane support Dark theme Batch rename files File search File preview Miller columns Multi Column View Support for regular expressions
75 Like

Krusader

Advanced twin panel (commander style) file manager for KDE and other desktops in the *nix world, similar to Midnight or Total Commander.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux MacPorts XQuartz

Dual pane support Support for FTP
51 Like

Unreal Commander

Very powerfull two-panel interface commander.

Freemium

Portable Dual pane support
49 Like

trolCommander

trolcommander - fork of the free and opensource mucommander filemanager. trolcommander is a lightweight, cross-platform file manager with a dual-pane interface with tabbed navigation and rich functionality.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

Built in viewer Tabbed interface Lightweight Dual pane support Support for FTP Syntax Highlighting Support for SFTP Built in Terminal
48 Like

Commander One

Commander One is dual-pane file manager for OS X created in Swift, which enables you to manage your files in the best possible way.

Freemium Mac OS X

Export to PDF Dual pane support Support for FTP Support for SFTP Mounting drives Search in files
42 Like

Altap Salamander

A small and two-pane file manager with open plugin architecture. Has the ability to view content of files (text, html, over 40 picture formats, mp3), support for archives (zip, rar, arj, cab, tar/gzip, etc.), and (S)FTP support.

Commercial Windows

Dual pane support Support for SFTP SSH
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
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
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
6 Like

Saladin

saladin is an open source dual-pane file manager for windows which merges the capabilities of file explorer with the well known and easy to use orthodox user interface.

Free Open Source Windows

Built in viewer Integrated Search Drag n drop Dual pane support Support for FTP File search Shell integration
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)
5 Like

Caja

Caja is a fork of Nautilus from GNOME 2 and is native to the MATE Desktop Environment. It is a file manager like the Windows Explorer (not to confuse with Internet Explorer/Microsoft Edge), but for Unix/BSD and Linux. http://www .

Free Open Source Linux BSD

Support for WebDAV Dual pane support
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JumpFm

JumpFm is a minimalistic dual panel file manager (currently released only for Windows, Mac, and Linux) that lets you navigate your file system very efficiently. Mac releases can be found at https://github .

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

Minimalistic Dual pane support Windows like

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The Best 25 Far Manager Alternatives

Total Commander

FreeCommander

Double Commander

Midnight Commander

fman

XYplorer

muCommander

One Commander

Krusader

Unreal Commander

trolCommander

Commander One

Altap Salamander

GNOME Commander

Tux Commander

Just Manager

Saladin

DCommander

Caja

JumpFm

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