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.

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Xfce

Thunar is a new modern file manager for the Xfce Desktop Environment. Thunar has been designed from the ground up to be fast and easytouse. Its user interface is clean and intuitive, and does not include any confusing or useless options. Thunar is fast and responsive with a good start up time and directory load time. Thunar is accessible using Assistive Technologies and is fully standards compliant.

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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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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

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fman

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Commercial

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XYplorer

XYplorer is a file manager for Windows.

Freemium

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

Free Open Source Windows

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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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Unreal Commander

Very powerfull two-panel interface commander.

Freemium

Portable Dual pane support
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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
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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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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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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 .

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gentoo (file manager)

gentoo is a two-pane file manager for the X Window System. gentoo lets the user do (almost) all of the configuration and customizing from within the program itself.

Free Open Source Linux

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4pane

4Pane is a highly configurable dual-pane Linux file manager.

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