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FAR Manager competitors

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2023-10-14
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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.

(this post will be updated with new findings)

Table of Contents - List of File Managers

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/