FAR Manager competitors - File Manager Showroom

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FAR Manager is such a powerful productivity tool, it doesn't have any meaningful competition, although, there are nuanced features in other file managers which may worth adding to FAR. While going thru those file managers, I made screenshots to showcase as many feautures as they have, while collected some interesting aspects of their arsenal which are missing from FAR.

Table of Contents - List of File Managers

• HiFile
• Double Commander
• One Commander
• Quad-Directory-Explorer
• fman
• Altap Salamander
• FreeCommander
• ... work in progress

HiFile
https://www.hifile.app/

• relative timestamp ("today 19:27")
• time thermometer
• alternative row background
• "Documen...ettings"
• units: KiB vs. KB
• treat ".folder" as hidden
• natural numeric sorting

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Double Commander
https://doublecmd.sourceforge.io/gallery/

• multiplugin support
• flat view (Branch plugin for FAR)
• create shortcut (Send to -> Desktop (Create shortcut), but smarter)
• split/combine files
• calculate/verify checksum
• save selection / to file / to clipboard
• restore selection / from file / from clipboard / from command output (full match, partial)
• find/search
  • exclude (file pattern, comma-separated)
  • exclude (containing text)
  • date range, natural expression: not older than X day
  • file size (from, to)
  • attributes
  • save/load search
• find duplicate files
  • by name, size, hash, content (regardless of encoding, line ending, indentation/trailing space, trailing new line)
• command palette
• quick drives (C D K P W)
• audit log operations

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One Commander
https://www.onecommander.com/

• overview sidebar, quick access
• tag files with colors, sort by them
• inactive panel shaded
• time thermometer with info
• nice-to-have columns: if can fit, show, if not -> hide
• "Documen...ettings"
• double click on separator fits panels even
• audit log operations
• save/load window
• colorize number parts (123 456 789 - "123" mbyte color, "456" kilobyte color, "789" byte color)
• treat ".folder" as hidden

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Quad-Directory-Explorer
https://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Freeware/Q-Dir

• google search on file info (name, date, other props extracted)
• save state/session/workspace
• keep selection on dir change
• play sound on navigation

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fman
https://fman.io/

• command palette

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Altap Salamander
https://www.altap.cz/

• quick drives (C D K P W)
• CRLF <-> LF converter

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FreeCommander
https://freecommander.com/en/summary/

• external operations: delete, copy, move
• suggestions on create file/directory
• long operation queue
• save selection/load selection, file/mem
• view directory structure as flat (anno Branch plugin), files/dirs

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-- work in progess below -- (let me know if you're interested in any)

xplorer2 - https://www.zabkat.com/

XYplorer - https://www.xyplorer.com/

Everything - https://www.voidtools.com/

Multi Commander - https://multicommander.com/

Ranger - https://ranger.github.io/

Power Desk from Avanquest - https://www.avanquest.com/USA/software/powerdesk-pro-8-trial-148537?force_desktop=1

FileVoyager - https://www.filevoyager.com/

Winfile - https://github.com/microsoft/winfile

Norton Commander - https://winworldpc.com/product/norton-commander/5x

WinNc - https://www.winnc.com/

Dos Navigator - http://ndn.muxe.com/

Volkov Commander - https://archive.org/details/TheVolkovCommander_1020

Midnight Commander - https://midnight-commander.org/

Explorer++ - https://explorerplusplus.com/

Directory Report - https://www.file-utilities.com/

SmartSynchronize - https://www.syntevo.com/smartsynchronize/

Saladin - https://github.com/mimecorg/saladin

Files - File Manager for Windows - https://files.community/

allTags - https://alltags.net/

Gs Richcopy 360 Enterprise - https://gurusquad.com/products/gs-richcopy-360

File Cards - https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NBLGGGXWT39?hl=en-gb&gl=GB

Just Manager - https://just-manager.en.lo4d.com/windows

Clover - http://en.ejie.me/

Eagle.cool - https://eagle.cool/

Unreal Commander - https://x-diesel.com/

ExplorerMax - https://explorermax.drivethelife.com/

Direttore File Manager - https://github.com/WilliamDrt/Direttore

TagSpaces - https://www.tagspaces.org/

Cubic Explorer - https://sourceforge.net/projects/cubicexplorer/

ThatFile - https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9P5NKMFZP3H1?hl=en-us&gl=US

Tablacus Explorer - https://tablacus.github.io/explorer_en.html

TidyTabs - https://www.nurgo-software.com/products/tidytabs

WinDirStat - https://windirstat.net/

Manager for Files - https://www.apps4.store/en-us/store/details/manager-for-files

EF Commander - https://www.efsoftware.com/cw/e.htm

NexusFile - https://www.xiles.app/

UltraExplorer - https://www.magsys.co.uk/delphi/ultraexplorer.asp

Index (Maui Applications) - https://mauikit.org/apps/index/

Spacedrive - https://www.spacedrive.com/

Konvertor - https://www.logipole.com/konvertor-en.htm

Shallot - https://pseudopolis.eu/wiki/pino/projs/shallot/index.html#download

Shrestha Files Pro X - https://www.sfiles.app/

Files&Folders Lite - https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9WZDNCRFJB31

Frigate3 - https://www.frigate3.com/index.php

Fileside - https://www.fileside.app/

OrganizerMaX (Tag Explorer) - https://www.bitqueues.com/tagexplorer/

nnn - https://github.com/jarun/nnn

Total Commander - https://www.ghisler.com/

Directory Opus - https://www.gpsoft.com.au/