FileBoss vs nnn
FileBoss
theutilityfactory.comnnn
github.comSide by side
| Figure | FileBoss | nnn |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 6 | 1 |
| Spec score · File Manager Software | 7.8 (#57) | 8.7 (#6) |
| Archive support | Yes | Yes |
| Dual-pane view | Yes | No |
| File operations | Its tools cover copying, moving, deleting, comparing, merging, and purging files and folders. | It can analyze disk usage, batch rename, launch apps, pick files, and copy, move, delete, archive, and link selections. |
| Supported platforms | windows | The project says nnn runs on Linux, macOS, Android through Termux, Cygwin, and WSL, among other environments. |
| Product | FileBoss is a Windows file manager and toolbox for managing files and folders. | nnn is a full-featured terminal file manager designed to be small, fast, and nearly zero-configuration. |
| Search | The product includes dedicated find routines for files such as recently modified files, old files, and files with long names or paths. | It supports search-as-you-type and fuzzy, regex, and string filters. |
Plans
FileBoss
- Personal license (one home computer)$50, paid once
- Home license$65, paid once
- Single business license$69, paid once
- Business 2-pack$99, paid once
- Business 5-pack$239, paid once
- Business 10-pack$399, paid once
In their own words
FileBoss
FileBoss has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
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.