AB Commander vs nnn
AB Commander
file-manager.comnnn
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| Figure | AB Commander | nnn |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 4 | 1 |
| Spec score · File Manager Software | 7.9 (#49) | 8.7 (#6) |
| Archive support | Yes | Yes |
| Dual-pane view | Yes | No |
| File operations | It supports copying, moving, renaming, and deleting files, as well as splitting large files and merging them back together. | It can analyze disk usage, batch rename, launch apps, pick files, and copy, move, delete, archive, and link selections. |
| Integrations | The maker says AB Commander can integrate with DiffMerge, Universal Viewer, and Notepad++, and supports third-party shell extensions. | Remote mounts can use sshfs or rclone, and nnn supports desktop openers, shell integration, and FreeDesktop-compliant trash utilities. |
| Supported platforms | windows | The project says nnn runs on Linux, macOS, Android through Termux, Cygwin, and WSL, among other environments. |
| Product | AB Commander is a dual-panel file manager and Windows Explorer replacement for working with two folders side by side. | nnn is a full-featured terminal file manager designed to be small, fast, and nearly zero-configuration. |
| Windows support | The maker lists Windows 7 through Windows 11 and says at least one edition supports 32-bit, 64-bit, and ARM64. | No |
Plans
AB Commander
- AB Commander licensePrice not published
- Home$39.97, paid once
- Professional$79.97, paid once
- Office$199.97, paid once
In their own words
AB Commander
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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.