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Harbor vs nnn

Harbor

harborutility.com

nnn

github.com

Side by side

FigureHarbornnn
Price fromFreeFree
Free planYesYes
Free trial——
Open source——
Windows—Yes
macOSYesYes
Linux—Yes
Android—Yes
Plans published11
Spec score · File Manager Software7.7 (#59)8.7 (#6)
Dual-pane viewYesNo
Supported platformsmacosThe project says nnn runs on Linux, macOS, Android through Termux, Cygwin, and WSL, among other environments.
PurposeHarbor is a native Mac file manager for browsing local folders and remote servers side by side.nnn is a full-featured terminal file manager.
SupportThe site links to support, bug reporting, and contact pages.The project invites users to discuss new ideas or enhancement requests in GitHub Discussions.

Plans

Harbor

  • HarborFree

Harbor pricing →

nnn

  • FreeFree

nnn pricing →

In their own words

Harbor

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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.

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