yazi Alternatives

yazi is described as 'Yazi (means "duck") is a terminal file manager written in Rust, based on non-blocking async I/O. It aims to provide an efficient, user-friendly, and customizable file management experience' and is an app in the development category. There are seven alternatives to yazi for a variety of platforms, including Linux, BSD, Mac, Windows and Cygwin apps. The best yazi alternative is Midnight Commander, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like yazi are ranger, lf (file manager), Vifm and nnn.

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Yazi (means "duck") is a terminal file manager written in Rust, based on non-blocking async I/O. It aims to...

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yazi alternatives page was last updated Jul 26, 2024
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  1. Midnight Commander icon

    Midnight Commander

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    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...

    108 Midnight Commander alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Cygwin
    • MacPorts
    Midnight Commander screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  Minimalistic

    Features

    1.  Console-based
    2.  Support for FTP
    3.  Dual Pane Support
    4.  Two panels
    5.  Support for SFTP
    6.  SSH
    7.  Mounting drives

    Midnight Commander VS yazi

     

    • Midnight Commander is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to yazi.

    • Midnight Commander is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to yazi.

    • Midnight Commander is Free and Open Sourceyazi is also Free and Open Source
    • Midnight Commander is Lightweightyazi is not according to our users
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    ranger

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    Terminal file manager with VI key bindings. It provides a minimalistic and nice curses interface with a view on the directory hierarchy. The secondary task of ranger is to psychically guess which program you want to use for opening particular files.

    34 ranger alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Cygwin
    ranger screenshot 1

    ranger Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Console-based
    3.  Multi Column View
    4.  Vim Key Mapping
    5.  Tui
    6.  Miller columns

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  4. lf (file manager) icon

    lf (file manager)

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    Terminal file manager written in Go (programming language).

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • TR flagTürkiye

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • DragonFly BSD
    • NetBSD
    lf (file manager) screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Works Offline
    3.  Ad-free
    4.  Run in console
    5.  Console-based
    6.  Tui

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    Vifm

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    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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • International

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    Vifm with light theme in iTerm2 with Inconsolata font on OS X

    Vifm Features

    1.  Works Offline
    2.  Command line interface
    3.  No Tracking
    4.  Terminal-based
    5.  Vim Key Mapping

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    nnn

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

    15 nnn alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • IN flagIndia

    Platforms

    • Linux
    nnn screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Console-based
    2.  Bookmarks

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  7. noice file browser icon

    noice file browser

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    noice, a blazing-fast lightweight terminal file browser with easy keyboard shortcuts for navigation, opening files and running tasks. noice is developed considering terminal based systems. There is no config file and mime associations are hard-coded.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Cygwin

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    joshuto

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    Joshito is a ranger like terminal file manager written in Rust.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    joshuto screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Console-based

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