DropIt vs nnn
DropIt
dropitproject.comnnn
github.comSide by side
| Figure | DropIt | nnn |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · File Manager Software | 7.4 (#82) | 8.7 (#6) |
| Archive support | Yes | Yes |
| Supported platforms | windows | The project says nnn runs on Linux, macOS, Android through Termux, Cygwin, and WSL, among other environments. |
| Purpose | DropIt automates sorting and managing files and folders using rules and actions. | nnn is a full-featured terminal file manager. |
| Support | The site points users to a guide, wiki, forum topic, and contact form for help and suggestions. | The project invites users to discuss new ideas or enhancement requests in GitHub Discussions. |
| Windows support | The download page offers installer and portable packages for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows. | No |
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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.