4Pane vs nnn
4Pane
4pane.co.uknnn
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| Figure | 4Pane | nnn |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · File Manager Software | 8.2 (#32) | 8.7 (#6) |
| Archive support | Yes | Yes |
| Dual-pane view | Yes | No |
| File operations | It supports multiple renaming or duplication using prefixes, suffixes, increments, or regular expressions. | It can analyze disk usage, batch rename, launch apps, pick files, and copy, move, delete, archive, and link selections. |
| Navigation | It offers directory trees and detailed file lists in configurable panes, plus bookmarks, user-defined GoTo buttons, and recently visited directories. | It supports contexts, sessions, bookmarks, directory marks, and remote mounts through sshfs or rclone. |
| Supported platforms | Linux | The project says nnn runs on Linux, macOS, Android through Termux, Cygwin, and WSL, among other environments. |
| Purpose | 4Pane is a multi-pane, detailed-list file manager for Linux. | nnn is a full-featured terminal file manager. |
| Support | The maker welcomes bug reports through the SourceForge bug tracker. | The project invites users to discuss new ideas or enhancement requests in GitHub Discussions. |
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In their own words
nnn
nnn is a terminal file manager designed to be small, fast and nearly zero-configuration. It handles copying, moving, deleting, archiving and linking selections, alongside batch renaming, disk-usage analysis, app launching and file picking. Navigation includes contexts, sessions, bookmarks and directory marks, while search options include instant filtering, fuzzy matching, regular expressions and string filters. It provides directory and text previews, and can create, list, extract and mount archives. Plugins can add functions such as live previews, disk mounting, file comparison and uploads. Remote mounts require optional sshfs or rclone dependencies. The project says nnn typically needs less than 3.5 MB of resident memory; it has no configuration file and uses defaults, with optional environment-variable settings. It is free and open source under the BSD-2-Clause license, and is listed for Android, Linux, macOS and Windows. The project offers packages and a statically linked binary, or users can compile it from source.