Alternatives to Free Commander
Compare Free Commander alternatives for your business or organization using the curated list below. SourceForge ranks the best alternatives to Free Commander in 2026. Compare features, ratings, user reviews, pricing, and more from Free Commander competitors and alternatives in order to make an informed decision for your business.
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Unreal Commander
Max Diesel
Unreal Commander is a freeware file manager for Windows® Vista/7/8/10/11. Two-panel interface. UNICODE support, an extended search of files. Multi-rename tool and synchronization of directories. Support of archives ZIP, 7Z, RAR, CAB, WIM, TAR, GZ, TGZ, BZ2, TBZ2, LHA, and ARJ. Built-in FTP client, thumbnail mode, and folder tabs. Support of WLX/WCX/WDX plugins. Build-in viewer and quick view function. Network support and drag-and-drop support. History and Hotlist functions. Copy/move/delete files background mode support. Deleting files with WIPE. Background pictures support. Visual styles: color categories of files, fonts for all interface elements, and more. With Unreal Commander"s many features you can manage your files and folders with greater ease. Its familiar design makes it accessible to advanced and novice users alike. Automatic numbering mode has been added to the file renaming dialog displayed when copying.Starting Price: Free -
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Multi Commander
Multi Commander
Multi Commander is a multi-tabbed file manager and is an alternative to the standard Windows Explorer. It uses a very popular and efficient dual-panel layout. Multi Commander has everything you need in your daily work with files to increase your speed and efficiency. It has all the standard features that any file manager has, like copy, move, rename, and view. But Multi Commander's big strengths are the special features that allow you to accomplish advanced tasks with ease. Tasks such as auto-unpacking, auto-sorting, browsing inside archives; editing the Windows Registry and accessing FTP; searching for and viewing files and pictures. There is also powerful, built-in scripting support that allows you to automate many tasks and expand their functionality. It allows you to do everything from the keyboard using shortcuts so that you can work quickly and efficiently. Dual pane tabbed interface, works with multiple folders open.Starting Price: Free -
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Metro Commander
Finebits
Metro Commander is an orthodox file manager which allows you to manage your files and folders from within the Modern Windows UI interface. Easily create, open, preview, rename, copy, move, delete, search and share files and folders. Browse your documents faster with navigation buttons (back, forward, up), thumbnail previews, shortcuts to your Images, Music and Videos folders and the ability to add shortcuts to your favorite folders. Manage your online files by logging into your SkyDrive account. Quick and convenient browsing of files and folders.Starting Price: $9.10 one-time payment -
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Files&Folders
Finebits
Files&Folders is a fully functional file manager for Windows 10. Manage your files and folders, extract archives, watch movies, view pictures and listen to music. File and folder options (copying, moving, renaming, deleting). Opening and extracting files from archives (RAR, ZIP, 7z, ZipX, ISO, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ARJ, XZ, CAB...) Built-in viewer and media player (doc, Docx, rtf, jpeg, png, BMP, gif, tiff, mp3, WMA, m4a, aac, wav, ac3, Avi, 3gp, WMV, mp4, m4v, mov). Audio playback in the background. Search for files and folders. Snapped mode support. SkyDrive access and Dropbox access. Operating with the system clipboard (copying to Windows Explorer) Themes and backgrounds, Bing wallpaper, etc. Founded by industry experts in 2013, Finebits OÜ provides a range of enterprise-class tools for the Windows Store.Starting Price: $9 one-time payment -
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Total Commander
Ghisler Software
Total Commander, version 10.52, is a shareware file manager for Windows® 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10/11, and Windows® 3.1. Two file windows side by side. Multiple language and Unicode support. Enhanced search function. Compare files (now with editor) / synchronize directories. Quick View panel with image and video display. ZIP, 7ZIP, ARJ, LZH, RAR, UC2, TAR, GZ, CAB, ACE archive handling + plugins. Built-in FTP client with FTPS (encrypted FTP) and HTTP proxy support. Multi-rename tool. Tabbed interface, regular expressions, history+favorites buttons. Thumbnails view custom columns. Compare editor, cursor in lister, separate trees, logging, enhanced overwrite dialog, etc. Unicode names almost everywhere, long names (>259 characters), a password manager for FTP and plugins, synchronize empty dirs, 64-bit context menu, quick file filter (Ctrl+S). USB port connection via special direct transfer cable, partial branch view (Ctrl+Shift+B), and many improvements to FTP synchronizing.Starting Price: Free -
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Xplorer²
Zabkat
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, and other files. Full shell namespace browser. Dual panes, folder tabs, and Miller columns. Preview documents, images, music, etc. Fast desktop search using all file attributes. Folder sizes and disk space visualization. Synchronize folder contents. Search for duplicate files to free space. Advanced copy, delete, and rename operations. Filename color coding and tagging. Execute custom commands (even DOS). Macros to automate complex file management. Fully customizable, modern ribbon UI or traditional menu bar. Everyday efficiency and control. Manage large folders with ease. Lightweight system resource use. Native 32/64 and Unicode versions. Browse folders everywhere windows explorer can access including network, zip folders, web folders, and libraries.Starting Price: $29.95 one-time payment -
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XtraFinder
Tran Ky Nam
Tabs, dual panel, and numerous features for Mac's native Finder. Quick access to dozens of functions made available in menus, context menu, and toolbar. Press Command + X to cut, and press Command + P to paste. Copy and move file one by one, no matter how many times you press copy/cut/paste shortcut without waiting for previous operations to complete. Keep folders above files. To see the complete file name of all files without manually adjusting column width. Pretty label drawing like legacy Finder. Full row label. Custom color, also known as light text on a dark background, colorful icons in the sidebar. Middle-click to open the folder in a new window or new tab. Display folder item count in a list view. Display the size of selected items in the status bar. You need to disable SIP to uninstall XtraFinder on OS X 10.11 - 10.15. Please periodically (monthly) check XtraFinder's website.Starting Price: $4.99 one-time payment -
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FileVoyager
FileVoyager
FileVoyager is a freeware Orthodox file manager (OFM) for Microsoft Windows. OFMs are file managers using two panels of disk browsers. This dual pane layout makes very easy the transfer operations of files or folders between sources and destinations. FileVoyager contains a large collection of tools and functionality. Browse disks, folders (real or virtual), shares, archives, and FTP/FTPS in one unified way. Browsing in various display modes (like a report or thumbnail modes) Usual file operations (rename, copy, move, link, delete, recycle) in the containers listed above and even between them. Pack and unpack ZIP, 7Zip, GZip, BZip2, XZ, Tar, and WIM formats (FileVoyager wraps 7-zip) Unpack ARJ, CAB, XAR, Z, RAR, LZH, LZMA, ISO, WIM and many others (FileVoyager wraps 7-zip) Play virtually any audio or video formats (FileVoyager relies at once on installed codecs, on WMP, and on VLC) Compare files or folders. Synchronize folders.Starting Price: Free -
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Fileographer
Fileographer
Fileographer is a keyboard-driven file manager and note-taking application for macOS and Linux. It lets you navigate your hard drive by typing a few letters from the name of the file or folder you want to see. It shows you files that are nested inside your folders, so you can filter down to just what you want. It lets you create files by entering a name and hitting enter, and it lets you edit those files right away. Fileographer even lets you batch rename. Features: * Navigate your hard drive without needing to use a mouse. * Use two panels to see two directories at once. * See file previews, display image files and PDFs, and play media files. * Create and edit text files. * Create folders. * Move, copy, and duplicate files. * Gather groups of files into a new folder. * Batch rename files. * Move files to the trash and delete files. * Capture notes by pressing F3 in any application.Starting Price: $5 -
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Konvertor
Logipole
Konvertor is a fast and reliable two-panel, multi-tab file manager for Windows. It has an intuitive interface and offers viewers for all popular file formats as well as uncommon and very rare ones (4734 in the current version). Konvertor is a way to work with files more efficiently. Konvertor does not change any settings in Windows and does not hook itself into anything inside Windows. Konvertor 5.04 works seamlessly with both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 10, 8.1, 8, and 7. Konvertor is designed to be as fast as possible: quick navigation among directories, fast directory reading, and fast and smooth painting of panels and thumbnails. Konvertor is portable, it is configured to store all configurations and settings in the same folder that it is run from. Built-in viewers will instantly display the content of all file formats. Text and binary files, bitmap and vector images, videos, audio, and 3D files, Office documents or programs files.Starting Price: Free -
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Vifm
Vifm
Vifm is a file manager with a curses interface, which provides a Vim-like environment for managing objects within file systems, extended with some useful ideas from mutt. If you use vi, Vifm gives you complete keyboard control over your files without having to learn a new set of commands. Vim-like user mappings. Vim-like command-line mode with ranges and abbreviations. Vim-like marks and registers. Directory tree comparison. Operation undoing/redoing/backgrounding. FUSE file systems support. Color schemes can also be applied to specific sub-trees. File decorations are customizable according to their type and/or name. Named bookmarks (tags) Less-like preview mode with customizable viewers. Advanced file filtering and renaming capabilities. One or two pane views within tabs. Shell-like and external command-line editing. Table/grid/tree/miller views of files. Built-in integration with GNU Screen and tmux. Multi-block selection. Cross-platform (GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, Windows, Mac OS)Starting Price: Free -
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Fluent File Explorer
Microsoft
Windows Store version of Windows File Explorer using Fluent Design. Experiment with Fluent Design using the custom tint option. Manage your files with a beautiful, fully customizable File Explorer! Allows you to easily navigate your file system using a tree view/list view with or without touch. Copy, move, rename, create and delete files and folders. Also supports sharing so you can share your files with other Windows Store apps so you can email files etc. Allows you to manipulate files anywhere on your computer, including removable media such as USB drives, and also network drives (mapped or UNC path). Please report bugs or new feature requests through the email link so I can work with you to fix/implement them. If you don't see your favorite color scheme, mail me and I'll try and get it in.Starting Price: $6.89 one-time payment -
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CRAX Commander
CRAX
Dual-pane, multi-tabbed file manager for Mac OS X with approachable user interface and built-in SVN, FTP, and SSH client. With CRAX Commander file management is much faster and easier than it has been before. Dual-pane browser. Tabs and bookmarks. Definition of keyboard shortcuts. Customizable view (show/hide: panels, sidebar, menubar) Definition of external tools. Customizable toolbar. Files & folders coloring based on extension and attributes. Advanced searching for files and folders. Advanced table data filtering. Advanced archives handling. Built-in support for SVN. Built-in editor with syntax highlighting. Background file transfer using a configurable queue. Editable path navigator. Connect to FTP, SFTP, SMB, and AFP. Multi-rename files and folder merging. Calculate file checksums (MD5, SHA) Split and combine. Compare files and folders by content. Remote files view & edit.Config of ext editor/viewer.Starting Price: Free -
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Midnight Commander
Midnight Commander
GNU Midnight Commander is a visual file manager, licensed under GNU General Public License and therefore qualifies as Free Software. It's a feature-rich full-screen 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 viewers and editors are included. Midnight Commander is based on versatile text interfaces, such as Ncurses or S-Lang, which allows it to work on a regular console, inside an X Window terminal, over SSH connections, and all kinds of remote shells. Midnight commander can be used in local console or terminal emulator in any graphical environment or via ssh because it has a Text User Interface (TUI). Mailing lists on GoogleGroups are set up to read Trac messages only and are not an appropriate place to discuss MC bugs and solutions. Feel free to report bugs, attach your patches to the tickets and review the patches that are already in there.Starting Price: Free -
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Q-Dir
Softwareok.com
The quad-directory-explorer makes your files and folders easy to manage, either installed or as a portable Windows program as an alternative freeware to Microsoft's File Explorer. Fast and easy access to your hard disks ergo advanced file management for network folders, USB sticks, floppy disks, and other storage devices Is the most popular tool from the category file management on Softwareok! File management in 4 windows with tabs. Folder size with extra information. Color filter for files and folders. Classic and modern address bar. Directory structure with visible tree branches. Print what you see in explorer views. Based on the MS Windows OS File Manager with full Unicode support. Q-Dir is a great alternative file manager for Windows with an amazing Quadro-view technique. Q-Dir gives you extra useful functions to make you happy. Save time by reducing mouse clicks and hand movements. Q-Dir does not have to be installed and can be executed easily from any location.Starting Price: Free -
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FileBrowser Professional
Stratospherix
All the professional features you need from a document management app for your iPad/iPhone. Connect to computers, Windows, Mac, servers, cloud storage, and USB drives. Edit documents in place and create automatic file backup and sync tasks. Rename files and folders in bulk, and so much more. One clean, consistent UI allows you to manage your files and folders by creating, deleting, and renaming, and providing the ability to copy, move, download, and upload. FileBrowser Professional's connections are so seamless it feels like everything is on one server. On an iPad use split-screen mode to drag and drop from a local USB flash drive to your web server's FTP site. Copy and paste files from Dropbox to Google Drive, or from any storage to any other. FileBrowser Professional is the only app you need to organize and access your storage. Easily copy and move documents and folders from one computer to another or to your cloud storage with our FileBrowser Professional iPad/iPhone app.Starting Price: $14.99 one-time payment -
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Directory Opus
GPSoftware
Directory Opus is a complete replacement for Explorer, with far more power and functionality than any other file manager available today. Single or dual pane file display and folder trees. Tabbed interface let you keep multiple folders open and switch quickly between them. Unique Explorer Replacement mode provides a full replacement for Windows Explorer. Quickly filter, sort, group, and search your folders. Color-code your files, and assign status icons, star ratings, tags, and descriptions. View images, documents, and more. Image marking lets you sort your photos quickly and easily. Batch renaming including easy-to-use keyboard macros. View and edit file metadata. Support for FTP and archive formats like Zip, 7Zip, and RAR. Built-in tools including synchronize and duplicate file finder. Calculate folder sizes and print or export folder listings. Queue multiple file copies for improved performance. Fully configurable user interface, colors, fonts, toolbars, keyboard hotkeys, etc.Starting Price: $31.65 one-time payment -
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ranger
ranger
ranger is a console file manager with VI key bindings. It provides a minimalistic and nice curses interface with a view of the directory hierarchy. It ships with rifle, a file launcher that is good at automatically finding out which program to use for what file type. The examples/ directory contains several scripts and plugins that demonstrate how ranger can be extended or combined with other programs. These files can be found in the git repository. UTF-8 Support (if your Python copy supports it). Multi-column display. Preview of the selected file/directory. Common file operations (create/chmod/copy/delete/...) Renaming multiple files at once. VIM-like console and hotkeys. Automatically determine file types and run them with the correct programs. Change the directory of your shell after exiting ranger. Tabs, bookmarks, mouse support, etc.Starting Price: Free -
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Folders File Manager
Andriy Konstantynov
Folders is a file manager with super clean and functional UI built around the folder tree. This type of file system navigation enables some features unique among macOS file managers such as expandable, rearrangeable Favorites or expandable symlinks which highly improve the navigation efficiency. Folders has everything you'd expect from a macOS file manager, including multiple windows and multiple tabs, four consistently behaving file views, convenient access to your Home and iCloud Drive folders, designated sections for recent files, color tags, text tags, and star ratings, file preview including audio and video files playback, a dedicated Info panel with EXIF and other metadata, text recognition, and more. More advanced features include Cut via Bin with cmd-X, powerful Batch Rename, advanced file conflict resolution, basic image operations, and comprehensive undo that includes undoing file replacements and folder mergers.Starting Price: $8 one-time payment -
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FileBoss
Bekker Technologies
FileBoss for Windows - Find Files & Folders Fast and Search File Content - File Management Tools FileBoss Features Open directories and folders in a part of a second Find all files or directories and folders containing an expression in the blink of an eye. Save, copy and move files in a specific directory within the program or within any application like Excel, Word , Adobe Reader, Open Office writer or calc, Thunderbird, Outlook. Search all files for certain keywords and exclude keywords that they cannot have. You want for example a list of all word files that contain the words engine and car but you do not want the files that contain the word motorcycle. Attach files to emails without clicking through the directory tree, insert pictures in documents from any directory fast.Starting Price: $43.95 one-time fee -
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fman
fman
Press Ctrl+P to quickly jump to a directory. fman remembers which folders you visit most often and suggests them first. This is so much quicker than manually navigating through directory hierarchies. Tailor fman to your needs via its powerful plugin system. Install plugins created by others, or write your own and share them with the community. fman is an alternative to file managers such as Explorer on Windows or Finder on macOS. You use it to browse directories, copy or move files, mount external drives, etc. It lets you perform these tasks much more efficiently than other file managers. This makes it extremely easy to copy or move files. You just open the directory you want to copy from on one side and the destination on the other. A simple keyboard shortcut then performs the copy. Unlike other file managers, you don't have to deal with multiple windows, drag files, or copy/paste in separate steps. File-related tasks can be carried out much more quickly that way.Starting Price: €39 one-time payment -
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Dolphin is KDE's file manager that lets you navigate and browse the contents of your hard drives, USB sticks, SD cards, and more. Creating, moving, or deleting files and folders is simple and fast. Dolphin contains plenty of productivity features that will save you time. The multiple tabs and split view features allow navigating multiple folders at the same time, and you can easily drag and drop files between views to move or copy them. Dolphin's right-click menu provides many quick actions that let you compress, share, and duplicate files, among many other things. You can also add your own custom actions. Dolphin is very lightweight, but at the same time, you can adapt it to your specific needs. This means that you can carry out your file management exactly the way you want to. Dolphin supports three different view modes: a classic grid view of all the files, a more detailed view, and a tree view. You can also configure most of Dolphin's behavior.
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Worker
Ralf Hoffmann
Worker is a two-pane file manager for the X Window System on UN*X. The directories and files are shown in two independent panels supporting a lot of advanced file manipulation features. The main focus is to make managing files easy with full keyboard control, also assisting in finding files and directories by using the history of accessed directories, live filtering, and access to commands by using the keyboard. Worker is free software developed by Ralf Hoffmann and released under the GNU General Public License V2 or later. VFS support for fast and easy access to archives and remote sites. Execute external programs by entering the name and arguments including unlimited history. Powerful mechanism to bind external programs to buttons, hotkeys, or file types (e.g. gimp, tar, diff, mount), including inserting names of selected files, source and target directories, and much more. Text viewer both separately and in an embedded pane.Starting Price: Free -
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ASTRO File Manager & Cleaner
data.ai Basics
ASTRO File Manager & Cleaner is the all-in-one app to organize, move, and back up your files easily and clean up your android phone’s memory. It has a user-friendly interface for easy navigation and simple folder management of your internal, external, and cloud storages. ASTRO is being used by 150M+ users worldwide since 2009. ASTRO Organizer is free to use and has no advertising! Move, copy, share, rename, files on internal storage, SD card, and cloud space with its file explorer. Sort and categorize files: Have fast access to all of your files on internal and external memory space. Manage your folders effectively with this android file organizer and browser! Easily explore all your images, tools, videos, music, apps, and recent folders from the home screen. Backup important photos and files with this data manager: securely move, copy and backup files to SD cards or any safe cloud space and clean your storage space.Starting Price: Free -
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My FileManager
Gyoom
'My FileManager' app is a full-featured file manager and private browser that allows you to organize your files on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod. You can preview hundreds of file types and transfer them in between apps. Move, copy, rename and delete files. Organize files in the folders. Document viewer that supports .ppt, .doc, .xls, .pdf, .txt, .HTML, and .rtf file formats. Edit and compress images. Edit video, search files by name, and sort by name, date, and type. Complete zip archive support. Open files in other apps. Email files to your friends. Instantly send files to your Mac with AirDrop. Protect your files with a 4-digit password. Support TouchID and FaceID. Enjoy the app without the interruption of any ads. Features a night mode. A new feature that removes the background of the images using artificial intelligence or using the brush. Supports iOS 14 and Widgets. Bookmarks and history, as well as favorites home screen.Starting Price: Free -
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Cx File Explorer
Cx File Explorer
With this file manager app, you can quickly browse and manage the files on your mobile device, PC, and cloud storage, just like you use Windows Explorer or Finder on your PC or Mac. Also it provides a rich set of features that advanced users are looking for without feeling bloated. You can even manage the space used on your mobile device with a visualized storage analysis. With a user-friendly UI, you can easily browse, move, copy, compress, rename, extract, delete, create and share files (folders) on both internal and external storage of your mobile device. Cx File Explorer provides visualized storage analysis so that you can quickly scan the available space and manage it. The Recycle bin also helps you easily manage your storage.Starting Price: Free -
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Simple File Manager Pro
Simple Mobile Tools
Simple File Manager is a super quick & professional file and folder manager for Android devices. Use Simple File Manager to easily compress, transfer & convert media files with a few clicks. It has all of the major file manager & folder management features, including customizing the home folder and selecting favorite folders for quick access. The file manager provides the whole pack of file manager features, including search, navigation, copy & paste, cut, delete, rename, decompress, transfer, download, organize & so on. Add, remove, or edit files, folders & apps according to your personal preferences. With this easy data organizer, you can organize and sort your mobile by various metrics and toggle between ascending and descending or using folder-specific sorting. To get a file or folder path quickly, you can easily select it by long-pressing and copying it in the clipboard.Starting Price: $0.67 one-time payment -
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RS File Manager
RS Mobile Group
Free, safe, simple, manage your files efficiently and easily with RS File Manager. RS File Manager - RS File Explorer is an easy and powerful file explorer for Android devices. It's free, fast, and full-featured. Manage your files like you do on your desktop or laptop using Multiple Select, Cut, Copy, Paste, Move, Create, Delete, Rename, Search, Share, Send, Hide, zip, unzip, and Bookmark etc. With RS File Manager - RS File Explorer, you can easily manage your files and folders on your device and cloud storage. Also, you can find how many files and apps you have on your device immediately after opening RS File Manager. With RS File Manager - RS File Explorer, you have 100% control over your file system and everything can be found easily organized.Starting Price: Free -
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SpeedCommander
SpeedCommander
Dual Window file manager for Windows 7, 8, 10 & 11 (32/64-bit). Plenty of customization options. Viewer for over 80 file formats. Support for 13 archive formats. Access to FTP, FTP-SSL, and SFTP. Support for macros and add-ins. Pro, direct cloud storage access. Pro, burn, and ISO file support. The Pro version of SpeedCommander can access to cloud storage services and write data to CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray media. Always view both source and target of an operation. Select designs based on Office and Visual Studio. Display multiple folders in one folder window. Automatically switch to a different view mode. Built-in preview for over 80 file formats. Create junctions, hard links, and symbolic links. Save and restore your current work environment. Plug into the explorer context menu and AutoPlay dialog. Direct access to frequently-used folders and applications. Create and extract 13 archive formats. AddIn interface for additional features.Starting Price: €22.95 one-time payment -
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muCommander
muCommander
muCommander is an open-source, dual-pane file manager available on all major operating systems. Copy, move, rename and batch rename, email files. Multiple tabs and universal bookmarks. Credentials manager. Configurable keyboard shortcuts. Cloud storage Dropbox and Google Drive. Virtual filesystem with support for local volumes, FTP, SFTP, SMB, NFS, HTTP, Amazon S3, Hadoop HDFS, and Bonjour. Archives ZIP, RAR, 7z, TAR, GZip, BZip2, ISO/NRG, AR/Deb, LST. Checksum calculation. Fully customizable user interface, configurable toolbars, and themes. Available in many languages. muCommander is a lightweight, cross-platform file manager with a dual-pane interface. Java 11 or later is required to run muCommander. Report bugs, suggest new features, answer questions, write documentation, create video tutorials or translate the user interface. In order to start Open Office, you need to open the "natively" (mapped to shift-enter by default) document.Starting Price: Free -
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SmarTTY
SysProgs
SmarTTY is a free multi-tabbed SSH client that supports copying files and directories with SCP on-the-fly and editing files in place. Smart Terminal with auto-completion, file panel, package management GUI and more. Most SSH servers support up to 10 sub-sessions per connection. SmarTTY makes the best of it, no annoying multiple windows, no need to re-login, just open a new tab and go! Automatic completion for files, folders, and recent commands. Easy file navigation panel for viewing files in the current directory. Clickable links in the command output. Easy-to-use GUI for APT and YUM package managers. Explore remote directory structure with Windows-style GUI. Download and upload single files with SCP protocol. Transfer entire directories with recursive SCP. Quickly send and receive directories with on-the-fly TAR. Native Windows file editing look & feel, automatic CRLF to LF conversion, and option to invoke 'sudo' to save protected files.Starting Price: Free -
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4Pane
4Pane
4Pane is a multi-pane, detailed-list file manager for Linux. It is designed to be fully featured without the bloat and aims for speed rather than visual effects. In addition to standard file manager things, it offers multiple undo and redo of most operations (including deletions), archive management including 'virtual browsing' inside archives, multiple renaming/duplication of files, a terminal emulator, and user-defined tools. As you can see from the Screenshots its display is split into a left directory tree-view, and a right detailed-list view which by default shows both files and directories. There are normally two of these twin panes displayed (thus the name) but this, and almost everything else, can be configured to suit your needs. It has been built and tested on all the main Linux distros, using both current and older versions. Though it has a gtk-style appearance, it's not tied to any particular desktop.Starting Price: Free -
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Solid Explorer
NeatBytes
Solid Explorer lets you navigate to files stored on your device and automatically organizes them into collections. You can view, delete, move, rename or share any files. It also allows you to quickly find the files you need through indexed search with filters. Solid Explorer can protect selected files with strong AES encryption and put them in a secure folder, which contents are unreadable for other apps. The file manager will ask for password or fingerprint confirmation when you browse the folder. Even if you uninstall Solid Explorer, the files stay on your device and are still protected. Although this file manager doesn’t feature a dedicated storage analyzer, you can find out which files take up most of space by going to folder properties of internal storage or SD card. You will find the information about the percentage of space each folder takes and the list of biggest files. You can also use search with a file size filter.Starting Price: Free -
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MassLongPathRepair
Internet & Computing Solutions, S.L.
MassLongPathRepair is a tool that allows us to fix all the problems related to long paths. It performs an exhaustive search in our system and locates those paths that exceed the length of 260 characters, to later be able to massively and automatically repair the hundreds or thousands of files and folders found in your system. Available in 6 languages. 3 ways to correct paths: - Moving files and folders to a short-length folder - Automatic shortening of folders and files - Deleting the folders or files A useful tool is included that allows us to copy and move folders on our system regardless of whether they contain long paths both at the origin and at the destination. This is useful for making backups safely or move our folders to another location.Starting Price: €29 -
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nnn
nnn
It's tiny, nearly 0-config and incredibly fast. It is designed to be unobtrusive with smart workflows to match the trains of thought. nnn can analyze disk usage, batch rename, launch apps and pick files. The plugin repository has tons of plugins to extend the capabilities further e.g. live previews, (un)mount disks, find & list, file/dir diff, and upload files. A patch framework hosts sizable user-submitted patches which are subjective in nature. Open with desktop opener or specify a custom opener. Plugin for image, video and audio thumbnails. Run plugins and custom commands with hotkeys. Create (with parents), rename, duplicate files and dirs. -
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MaxCommander
MPL Software Studio
Manage your files the way you always do, using two panels and the keyboard (and sometimes the mouse). Introducing the MaxCommander. MaxCommander is all you need to manage files on your local drives and remote file servers. The app supports several operations. You can browse and manage the content of an archive as if it was a folder on a local drive. You can browse, create, modify, and unpack all types of archives. You can browse, create, and unpack tar.gz, tar.Z, tar.bz2, tar.xz, tgz, taz, tbz2, txz, as well as gz, bz2, xz, and Z. If you have an archive file created on an operating system that does not use Unicode you can open it in MaxCommander and select the right characters encoding for file names (available for arj, lha/lzh, zip, rar, and tar archives). MaxCommander can connect to file servers and you can manage remote files and folders on such servers. For older FTP, FTPS, FTPES, and SFTP servers that do not support UTF8 you can select character encoding to use.Starting Price: $5.99 one-time payment -
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Shrestha Files Pro X
JPT Games and Apps
A modern dual-pane file manager with tabs and colorful themes for Windows 11 and Windows 10 devices. If you are looking for a dual-pane file manager with tabs and colorful themes, look no further: Shrestha Files Pro X is here with a modern and minimalist design to supercharge your productivity! Get it from the Microsoft Store now. Fluent design matching the look and feel of Windows 11 and Windows 10. Standard single pane mode for all users or advanced dual pane mode for power users. Drop files and/or folders inside a tab or inside a folder within a tab. Automatically saves and restores open tabs, view types per tab, pane size, etc. Search to find items in the current folder and sub-folders. Simple list, detailed list, small grid, medium grid, large grid, and tiles. Internal viewers for text and image files. The tabbed interface is similar to web browsers. Move tabs from one pane to another. Standard colorful themes and custom themes by users.Starting Price: Free -
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Computer File Explorer
Byte Mobile
Computer is a free, full-featured file explorer, designed to support multiple tabs and windows opened side-by-side. It provides access to pictures, music, video, documents, and other files on both your Android devices and your computers. File explorer: manage your documents like you do on your desktop or laptop. Switching to other programs, uninstall or view any app's system management page. Launched applications are also in the taskbar. Built-in media viewer and player for various media formats, including photos, music, and videos. Supports tabs and side-by-side windows, so you can open multiple folders at the same time.Starting Price: Free -
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X-plore File Manager
Lonely Cat Games
This is a dual-pane explorer, there are two folders shown at same time, and common operation such as copying files are done from one pane to another. And X-plore shows folder hierarchy in a tree view for clear orientation and fast switching to other location. You may explore internals of the device, and if you're power user and have your device rooted, you can make changes to system data - backup files, remove unwanted applications, etc. If you're standard user, you may choose to hide internal memory from view and be sure not to mess with system. You can comfortably see contents of mass memories on your device, or possibly attached USB memory stick.Starting Price: Free -
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One Commander
Milos Paripovic
One Commander V3 is a modern file manager for Windows 10 and Windows 11. Features include tabs, dual-pane browsers, column navigation, built-in preview, a theming system, color tags, and much more. It is free for home use and has no ads. One Commander requires Windows 10 or Windows 11 and .NET 4.8 framework (pre-installed on Windows 10 and 11) Windows 10S is NOT supported. High-DPI screen recommended (above 96ppi). Acrylic window effect is supported only in Windows 10, but Mica window effect is available in Windows 11 (may not work in some Insider builds) Commercial use requires a Pro license (includes additional features). This program doesn't attempt to be just a better-looking Windows File Explorer with tabs or a MacOS Finder for Windows with columns, but to challenge the existing workflows that remained unchanged since the '90s.Starting Price: $12 one-time payment -
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Frigate3
WinFrigate
Frigate3 is a handy file manager with built-in file viewers (DBF, RTF, HTML, DOC, Excel), handy utilities (TreeNotes, StartUp Manager, Calculator, SmartPad, and Directory Size Manager) and a wealth of other options that make managing and browsing through files easy. As a full-functional, advanced modern file manager, Frigate3 comes with network support, FTP file management (include SFTP and FTPS protocols) and various file compression and encryption options (zip, arj, rar, jar, ace, ha, lha, zoo, limit and hyper). The manager is equipped with a program-sorting feature that lets computer users quickly and easily make sense of media files stored on HDDs as well as external drives. In addition, the multithreaded program engine handles any number of concurrent file operations, such as copying, downloading, moving, searching, extracting, compressing and uploading files. -
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FileMaster
YouMi Tech
FileMaster is a file manager, document viewer, video/audio player, text editor, and more for iPhone, iPad & iPod Touch. Transfer files from your computer, carry them around with you and share them with your friends. Using FileMaster is easy. Just long-press on a file or folder icon to display a popup menu. Simply tap your selection and you’re ready to go. You can tap on the screen to copy, paste, create folders, and so on. There’s no need to worry about the security of FileMaster, either. Your files can be accessed remotely with a password or locally with a master passcode. No one but you will see what’s in your FileMaster. Create new folders? Copy, cut, paste, and delete operations. Long press to popup menus. Support multi-selection mode. Import photos/videos from the system album. Take private photos or videos inside the app. Check the free disk space. Supports avi/Flv/rmvm/rm/mov/mp4/mp3/WMA/m3u8 formats.Starting Price: Free -
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Commander One
Electronic Team, Inc.
Commander One is the all-in-one file dual-panel file management application for Mac. It fully supports Mac M1 and M2 silicon and comes with a great interface that’s easy to maneuver and productivity-driven. The app is packed with features designed to increase the speed and ease of working with files. The ability to customize hotkeys, select specific files, show hidden files and view the entire work history and favorite files makes it amazing for those working with a lot of content. Moreover, Commander One also comes with an operation queue section, where users can see all of their files being processed, full support for archives, and a built-in viewer for text files of all kinds. Users can also choose to encrypt their files, with the super secure encryption feature that is built in and easy to set up. Power users can use the terminal emulator which also comes with the application to set up specific tasks and have full control over their workflow.Starting Price: $29.99 -
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DCommander
Devstorm SRL
DCommander helps you manage files, folders, and disks with your Mac. Don’t limit yourself to the default macOS Finder. Manage your files like a true professional using DCommander, a two-pane file manager for macOS! Take full control of your Mac file system today! Advanced doesn’t mean hard to use! The two panels in DCommander help you better navigate and visualize file interactions on your drives. Coupled with the dual sidebars it makes it easier to find favorite locations and see detailed information. An intuitive and familiar graphical user interface makes transitioning from other platforms an easy journey! DCommander helps you manage files with many features. Seamless FTP SFTP and SCP connections will make your life easier when transferring data to servers. View files faster with the integrated QuickLook functionality. View binary files using the internal viewer. Everything is designed to be accessible via keyboard. Enjoy taking a break from your pointing device!Starting Price: $40.75 one-time payment -
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Altap Salamander
Altap
Altap Salamander 4.0 works seamlessly with both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 10, 8.1, and 7. Most popular network protocols such as FTP, FTPS, SCP, or SFTP are supported. Altap Salamander is designed to be as fast as possible: quick navigation among directories, fast directory reading, and fast and smooth painting of panels. Full control over your recent history lists, seamlessly integrated password manager, or option to protect your sensitive files with strong encryption algorithms. Built-in viewers will instantly display the content of the most popular file formats. Text and binary files, bitmap images, or database files. Open architecture allows to extend Altap Salamander with custom plugins or automate common tasks using scripts written in any language supported by the Windows Script Host such as JScript or VBScript. Work with your files even if they are stored in archives. All major formats as ZIP, RAR, 7-Zip, or ISO/UDF image are supported.Starting Price: Free -
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File Manager Plus
AlphaInventor
File Manager Plus is a full-featured file manager app for Android. File Manager Plus features all of the basic file management features including copy, cut, paste, delete, rename, compress, decompress, transfer, download, and bookmark. It lets you explore files not only on your devices but also across your network including FTP, SMB, and cloud-based storage. It supports various media files and major file formats including .apk. File Manager Plus has a user-friendly and instinctive user interface, so it is easy to use even if you are a beginner. You can quickly find the files that you are looking for and easily manage them. What’s more, you can find how many files & apps you have on your device at a glance immediately after opening File manager Plus. Your files and folders are automatically sorted by their file types and characteristics so that you can easily find the file you are looking for.Starting Price: Free -
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MK Explorer
kormateusz
MK Explorer is another simple file manager that provides material design, two windows (panels) to view files, shortcuts on the desktop directly from the main application, keyboard shortcuts, thumbnails of images, videos and APK files, extracting zip and RAR archives, built-in gallery, built-in text editor, and built-in music player.Starting Price: Free -
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Aerize Explorer
Aerize
The file manager that everyone has been waiting for is here. Aerize Explorer enables direct file system access with the ability to move and copy files between devices and removable storage cards. Using a familiar folder browsing interface, you can see files on both the device and the external storage card. Aerize Explorer is the first file manager for Windows Phone that can read and write files and folders to storage cards and the device file system. Explore files and folders on your device or removable media card, search for video files, pictures files and music files. Recognizing common file types such as images, videos, music, and PDF files, this file explorer helps you to browse basic file information or launch files using the associated application. Start exploring the entire file system with Aerize Explorer today! -
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OrganizerMaX
Bitqueues
Now you can enjoy your day with no stress, as this fantastic file manager for Windows & a perfect Windows Explorer alternative helps you with organizing the daily digital clutter a bit at a time. Tagging and organizing files and folders on Windows just got simpler with the help of this simple and innovative file manager for Windows which makes for a perfect Windows Explorer alternative. OrganizermaX is an innovative all-new file manager for Windows. If you are one of us, who don’t like getting bound to the traditional approach of organizing files in a folder structure. As we all know makes it so complicated to find files in due time, that we end up just leaving files on the desktop and downloading folders instead. With the thought in our mind of dealing with the mess later; and as obvious that later never happens. So, we came up with this simple yet innovative solution to make file organizing fun!Starting Price: $49 one-time payment -
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FileToFolder
CodeLine
FileToFolder provides easy, one-click folder creation from a file and moving that file into its new folder. Need to do the opposite and rapidly move multiple files out of their folders into the current folder? FileToFolder will do that too with a simple “right-click” call from the context menu, while tidying up behind itself and deleting any empty folders and sub-folders if required. Just want to shift all the contents of a folder “back one” (ie Dissolve the target folder)? “Right-click” on it and select “Dissolve”. FileToFolder is at its most convenient when used from the context menu in Windows Explorer but it can be opened and used as a conventional application as well.Starting Price: $19.99
