Midnight Commander Alternatives

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1. 

   

   Commander One

    73 likes

   Swift file manager for Mac that offers a dual-pane interface, multi-tab browsing & advanced search. The PRO Pack adds features like FTP client, cloud integration (Box, Amazon S3), compression & more, enhancing file management capabilities.

   128 Commander One alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Freemium
   • Proprietary

   Application typeApplication types

   • File Manager
   • FTP Client

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac

   • United States

   

   

   

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2. 

   

   fman

    233 likes

   The most modern dual-pane file manager. For Windows, Mac and Linux.

   Cost / License

   • Freemium
   • Proprietary

   Application type

   • File Manager

   Origin

   • Germany
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   • Germany
   • EU

   

   

   

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   Ghost Commander

    59 likes

   Ghost Commander is a file manager with two panels for the Android™ platform. Its development was inspired by the famous (Norton|Midnight|Total) Commander desktop applications, so if you are familiar with those great programs, you will find Ghost Commander a familiar and very...

   59 Ghost Commander alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application typeApplication types

   • File Manager
   • FTP Client

   Origin

   • Russia

   Platforms

   • Android
   • Android Tablet
   • F-Droid

   • Russia

   

   

   

   +4

   

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   FileZilla

   Open-source FTP solution offering FTP, FTPS, and SFTP support. FileZilla Pro expands protocol options to WebDAV, Amazon S3, and more with FileZilla Server for comprehensive file management.

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   termscp

    3 likes

   A feature rich terminal UI file transfer and explorer with support for SCP/SFTP/FTP/Kube/S3/WebDAV.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application type

   • FTP Client

   Origin

   • Switzerland

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • FreeBSD
   • NetBSD
   • BSD

   • Switzerland

   

   

   

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7. 

   

   Rascal

    4 likes

   Keyboard-centric macOS file manager featuring dual panes, vim navigation, command palette, inline terminal syncing with folders, disk usage treemap, macOS tag support, multi-view modes, 17 themes, smart folders, Homebrew install, free and open source on macOS 13+.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application type

   • File Manager

   Origin

   • Canada

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Homebrew

   • Canada

   

   

   

   +1

   

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9. 

   

   lf (file manager)

    15 likes

   Terminal file manager written in Go (programming language).

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application type

   • File Manager

   Origin

   • Türkiye

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • BSD
   • FreeBSD
   • DragonFly BSD
   • NetBSD

   • Türkiye

   

   

   

   +2

   

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10. 

    

    Path Finder

     56 likes

    Path Finder is a standalone Finder replacement that takes the Finder's familiar interface and adds numerous powerful features and interface innovations to help anyone be more productive on macOS.

    75 Path Finder alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    • File Manager

    Origin

    • United States

    Platforms

    • Mac

    • United States

    

    

    

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11. 

    

    PCMan File Manager

     57 likes

    PCMan File Manager (PCManFM) is a file manager application, developed by Hong Jen Yee from Taiwan, which is meant to be a replacement for GNOME Files, Dolphin and Thunar. PCManFM is the standard file manager in LXDE, also developed by the same author in conjunction with other...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

    Application type

    • File Manager

    Origin

    • Taiwan

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • LXDE
    • GTK
    • Qt

    • Taiwan

    

    

    

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    nnn

     17 likes

    Initially forked from noice file browser, nnn is a super fast and resource-sensitive, terminal-based file browser.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (BSD-2-Clause)

    Application type

    • File Manager

    Origin

    • India

    Platforms

    • Linux

    • India

    

    

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13. 

    

    trolCommander

     53 likes

    trolCommander - fork of the free and opensource muCommander filemanager.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • File Manager

    Origin

    • Russia

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    • Russia

    

    

    

    +1

    

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    Vifm

     24 likes

    Vifm is a file manager with curses interface, which provides Vi[m]-like environment for managing objects within file systems, extended with some useful ideas from mutt.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • File Manager

    Origin

    • International

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux

    • Global

    

    

    

    +3

    

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    Vifm vs Midnight Commander Comments

    Positive comment by str8fast · May 13, 2026

    lightweight and more customizable

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    • Vifm is Free and Open SourceMidnight Commander is also Free and Open Source
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    Xfile

     2 likes

    Xfile is a completely Cocoa and Unix based file manager for the OS X operating system written for professional developers and system/network administrators.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    • File Manager

    Origin

    • Sweden
    • EU

    Platforms

    • Mac

    • Sweden
    • EU

    

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