The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of notable

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General information

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XYplorer XYplorer (pronounced ''X-Y-plorer'' or ''Zai-plorer'', formerly known as TrackerV3) is a file manager for Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10, and 11. XYplorer is a hybrid file manager that combines features found in navigational and orthodox file manage ...

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Operating system support

Cross-platform file managers

This table shows the

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s that the file managers can run on, without emulation.

Mac-only file managers

Finder Finder may refer to: * Finder (surname) * Finder (software), part of the Apple Macintosh operating system * ''Finder'' (comics), a comic book series by Carla Speed McNeil * ''Finder'' (novel), a 1994 novel by Emma Bull * Finder Wyvernspur, a fi ...

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* Path Finder *

Xfile Xfile is a file manager developed by Rixstep, built as a Finder replacement for the Mac OS X operating system. Its features are mostly congruent with those accessible by generic Unix systems. Some examples of the more advanced features are a c ...

Commander One Commander One is a dual-pane file manager for macOS, created entirely in Swift. The app is developed by Eltima Software. Apart from basic operations such as creating and managing folders, deleting, copying, moving and renaming files, it also pro ...

*nix-only file managers

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Gentoo file manager gentoo is a free file manager for Linux and other Unix-like computer systems created by Emil Brink. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License. gentoo is written in C using the GTK+ toolkit, and the "two-pane" concept. What makes ge ...

Konqueror Konqueror is a free and open-source web browser and file manager that provides web access and file-viewer functionality for file systems (such as local files, files on a remote FTP server and files in a disk image). It forms a core part of ...

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* Nemo * PCMan File Manager * Ranger *

ROX-Filer The ROX Desktop is a graphical desktop environment for the X Window System. It is based on the ROX-Filer which is a drag and drop spatial file manager. It is free software released under the GNU General Public License. The environment was ins ...

* Thunar * SpaceFM

Windows-only file managers

Altap Salamander Altap Salamander (formerly known as ''Servant Salamander'') is a freeware orthodox file manager for Microsoft Windows, originally inspired by Norton Commander. In contrast to several other file managers, it has a ''context aware'' user interface ...

Directory Opus Directory Opus (or "DOpus" as its users tend to call it) is a file manager program, originally written for the Amiga computer system in the early to mid-1990s. Commercial development on the version for the Amiga ceased in 1997. Directory Opus is s ...

* Explorer++ *

File Manager A file manager or file browser is a computer program that provides a user interface to manage files and folders. The most common operations performed on files or groups of files include creating, opening (e.g. viewing, playing, editing or print ...

Nomad.NET Nomad.NET is a freeware orthodox file manager (OFM) for Microsoft Windows. Some features include a built-in FTP client, archive file navigation, folder comparison and synchronization, and a multi-file renaming tool. In addition to being an or ...

* SE-Explorer * STDU Explorer * TablacusExplorerhttps://tablacus.github.io/ * Total Commander *

File Explorer File Explorer, previously known as Windows Explorer, is a file manager application that is included with releases of the Microsoft Windows operating system from Windows 95 onwards. It provides a graphical user interface for accessing the file ...

xplorer² xplorer² (formerly 2xExplorer) is a dual-pane file manager for Microsoft Windows operating systems, developed by Nikos Bozinis (Nikolaos Achilleos Bozinis). It offers the functionality of orthodox file managers A file manager or file brow ...

* ZTreeWin

iOS-only file managers

Files (Apple) Files is a file management app developed by Apple Inc. for devices that run iOS 11 and later releases of iOS and devices that run iPadOS. Discovered as a placeholder title in the App Store just prior to the company's 2017, Worldwide Develo ...

Android-only file managers

Files by Google Files (formerly known as Files Go) is a file management app developed by Google for file browsing, media consumption, storage clean-up and offline file transfer. It was released by Google on December 5, 2017 with a custom version for China bein ...

* Ghost Commander

Manager views

Information about what common file manager views are implemented natively (without third-party add-ons). Note that the "Column View" does not refer to the Miller Columns browsing / visualization technique that can be applied to tree structures / folders. Twin-panel file managers have obligatory connected panels where action in one panel results in reaction in the second. Konqueror supports multiple panels divided horizontally, vertically or both, but these panels do not act as twin panels by default (the user has to mark the panels he wants to act as twin-panels).

Network protocols

Information on what networking protocols the file managers support. Note that many of these protocols might be supported, in part or in whole, by software layers below the file manager, rather than by the file manager itself; for example, the

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Finder doesn't implement those protocols, and the Windows Explorer doesn't implement most of them, they just make ordinary file system calls to access remote files, and Konqueror either uses ordinary file system calls or KIO slave calls to access remote files. Some functions, such as browsing for servers or shares, might be implemented in the file manager even if most functions are implemented below the file manager.

File features

Information on what basic file features the file managers support.

Browsing features

Search features

Information on what file searching features the file managers support. RegExp include the possibilities of nested Boolean searches, thus implicitly all file managers supporting RegExp search support also Boolean searches. Column Definitions (D) Entry Notes (s)

Extensibility

Information on which parts of the application can be extended by plugins.

Notes

External links

''What's the best file manager for Ubuntu Gnome 14.04 Trusty?''
by Rich Lott, May 2014
Softpanorama Orthodox File Managers page (Home of the OFM standard)

Comparison of some "light" File Managers in GNU/Linux (in spanish)
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