Midnight Commander

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

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gnu midnight commander is a visual file manager, licensed under gnu general public license and therefore qualifies as free software. its a feature rich fullscreen text mode application that allows you to copy, move and delete files and whole directory trees, search for files and run commands in the subshell. internal viewer and editor are included.

midnight commander is based on versatile text interfaces, such as ncurses or slang, which allows it to work on a regular console, inside an x window terminal, over ssh connections and all kinds of remote shells.

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

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Far Manager

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

Free Open Source Windows

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

Dolphin is a file manager for KDE focusing on usability. Has three view modes: Icon, Detail and it used to have Column View like in Finder (it is not available in current version due to problems with maintaibility).

Free Open Source Linux KDE

Tabbed interface Dual pane support File compression Copy files SSH
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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
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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
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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
47 Like

Sunflower

Open source, small and highly customizable twin-panel file manager for Linux with support for plug-ins. Main goal is to create easy to use and powerful file manager seamlessly integrated into Gnome desktop environment.

Free Open Source Linux

Dual pane support Support for Samba
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Disk Order

Disk Order is a dual pane file manager for your Mac.

Commercial Mac OS X

Built in viewer Tabbed interface Dual pane support Support for FTP Batch rename files Folder Comparison
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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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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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Midnight Commander

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The Best 25 Midnight Commander Alternatives

Total Commander

FreeCommander

Double Commander

fman

XYplorer

Far Manager

muCommander

Dolphin File Manager

Krusader

trolCommander

Commander One

Sunflower

NexusFile

GNOME Commander

Tux Commander

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Disk Order

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