Midnight Commander Alternatives

Midnight Commander is described as 'GNU Midnight Commander is a visual file manager, licensed under GNU General Public License and therefore qualifies as Free Software. Its a feature rich full-screen text mode application that allows you to copy, move and delete files and whole directory trees, search for files' and is a very popular File Manager in the file management category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Midnight Commander for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Android apps. The best Midnight Commander alternative is FileZilla, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Midnight Commander are Double Commander, Total Commander, Spacedrive and Dolphin File Manager.

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Midnight Commander alternatives are mainly File Managers, but if you're looking for FTP Clients or File Search Utilities you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Linux, Windows and Mac. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Midnight Commander.
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    Worker is a file manager for the X Window System on UN*X with low requirements (basically only the X11 libraries). The directories and files are shown in two independent panels (similar to Midnight Commander).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  2. Tux Commander icon
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    Tux Commander is a windowed file manager with 2 panels side by side similar to Double Commander, Total Commander or Midnight Commander.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
     
  3. 4pane icon
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    4Pane is a highly configurable dual-pane Linux file manager.

    The name is derived from the fact that each of the two panes has two sub-panes: one that shows the directory tree pane and the other that shows files in the selected folder (tree node).

    Although deceptively simple-l.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  4. Fover icon
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    Introducing Fover, a fresh approach to file management on your macOS device. With Fover, moving files and folders becomes a breeze, taking just three simple steps: drag and drop files into the app, specify the destination folder, and click the move button.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  5. joshuto icon
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    Joshito is a ranger like terminal file manager written in Rust.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  6. xplr icon
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    xplr is a terminal UI based file explorer that aims to increase our terminal productivity by being a flexible, interactive orchestrator for the ever growing awesome command-line utilities that work with the file-system.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  7. EF Commander icon
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    EF Commander is a file manager for the Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Window XP and Windows Vista desktop. If youve ever used and liked Norton Commander, youll like this dual-windowed program, which comes complete with bubble and online help.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. CLEX icon
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    CLEX is a free lightweight file manager with a full-screen user interface. It runs on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and other Unix and Unix-like systems. CLEX is open-source software licensed under the GNU General Public License.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  9. MaxCommander icon
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    Manage your files the way you always do, using two panels and the keyboard (and sometimes the mouse). Introducing the MaxCommander.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  10. Saladin icon
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    Saladin is an open source dual-pane file manager for Windows which merges the capabilities of Windows Explorer with the well known and easy to use orthodox user interface.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. Electerm icon
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    electerm is a terminal/ssh/sftp client(linux, mac, win) based on electron/node-pty/xterm/antd and many other libs, it works like a combination of guake and xshell.

    64 Electerm alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Electron / Atom Shell
     
  12. Dirent icon
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    Modern and free dual-pane file manager for Mac.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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