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Altap Salamander

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A small and two-pane file manager with open plugin architecture. Has the ability to view content of files (text, html, over 40 picture formats, mp3), support for archives (zip, rar, arj, cab, tar/gzip, etc.), and (S)FTP support.

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License model

  • FreeProprietary

Country of Origin

  • CZ flagCzechia
  • European Union flagEU

Platforms

  • Windows
4 / 5 Avg rating (5)
50likes
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Properties

  1.  Lightweight
  2.  Customizable

Features

  1.  Dual Pane Support
  2.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
  3.  SSH
  4.  Support for SFTP
  5.  Works Offline
  6.  Ad-free
  7.  No registration required
  8.  Built-in viewer
  9.  File Compression

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Altap Salamander information

  • Developed by

    CZ flagALTAP
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 4
  • Alternatives

    50 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

Our users have written 6 comments and reviews about Altap Salamander, and it has gotten 50 likes

Altap Salamander was added to AlternativeTo by jawn on Apr 17, 2009 and this page was last updated Sep 14, 2021.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
Roman Mishin
Jun 18, 2014
1

Altap Salamander is the most consistent and practical application I have ever worked with. It is always open on my desktop.

It has clean, uncluttered graphical interface. Almost every aspect of UI and behavior can be customized.

It has a set of very useful plugins, some of which I use very often: Text Viewer, Database Viewer, PictView (which can make a Screen Capture), Batch File Renamer; or from time to time: Disk Map, File Undelete and others.

The only drawback I experience is the lack of unicode support in Text Viewer, though Database Viewer supports unicode.

All in all, I like this application very much.

fris
Jun 28, 2024
0

Whee! Middle toolbar! At last. The interface is not as slick as Dopus though. Integrated SSH/SCP support in the 32 bit version.

dkshsat
Dec 1, 2022
0

Performance and RAM usage are very good. Lots of advanced features for being free. All good. 😀

But ..

No tree view, no bookmarks or Favorites, no multi-tab bar. 😧

In terms of basic navigation, this is a huge downside. Imagine that you are a user who has to go back and forth between a lot of folders. You can't pin as a tab, nor can you bookmark it. Only double panels should solve this problem. Or you'll have to search the forums for a while for possible special plugins and difficult-to-use procedures.

I may not be able to find the basic navigation features I mentioned above. But that just proves that the UX is a mess. I spent enough time looking for those features. If I'm wrong, please point it out in a reply.

wuzu
Oct 8, 2022
0

For me, Altap Salamander is the one I can work with best among all the Explorer alternatives I have tested. For example, I have tried FreeCommander and Double Commander as alternatives, but have always returned to Altap Salamander.

The reasons why I am looking for alternatives are:

  1. it does not cope with Unicode.
  2. it does not seem to be developed any further.

I would like to see other explorers follow Altap Salamander's usability.

TBayAreaPat
Apr 28, 2021
0

I find the WinMerge option confusing. It seems to work sometimes, but not all the times

lex.robin0
Aug 23, 2009
0

I'm still searching for a viable alternative to Altap Salamander on Mac.

What is Altap Salamander?

A small and two-pane file manager with open plugin architecture. Has the ability to view content of files (text, html, over 40 picture formats, mp3), support for archives (zip, rar, arj, cab, tar/gzip, etc.), and (S)FTP support.