Marta vs nnn
Marta
marta.shnnn
github.comSide by side
| Figure | Marta | nnn |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · File Manager Software | 7.9 (#46) | 8.7 (#6) |
| Archive support | Yes | Yes |
| Dual-pane view | Yes | No |
| File operations | The task queue lets users control ongoing file operations and pause or resume them. | It can analyze disk usage, batch rename, launch apps, pick files, and copy, move, delete, archive, and link selections. |
| Integrations | Marta can connect to external tools through configurable gadgets that launch applications or command-line executables. | Remote mounts can use sshfs or rclone, and nnn supports desktop openers, shell integration, and FreeDesktop-compliant trash utilities. |
| Supported platforms | macos | The project says nnn runs on Linux, macOS, Android through Termux, Cygwin, and WSL, among other environments. |
| Plugins | Marta provides a Lua API for writing plugins, with API reference and tutorials on its site. | Language-agnostic plugins can add capabilities such as live previews, disk mounting, file comparison, and uploads. |
| Privacy | The maker says Marta does not collect or sell user data and has no hidden functionality or backdoors. | The project describes nnn as privacy-aware, with no unconfirmed user data collection. |
| Product | Marta is a native macOS dual-pane file manager written in Swift. | nnn is a full-featured terminal file manager designed to be small, fast, and nearly zero-configuration. |
| Search | Quick Search finds files by substring or regular expression, while Look Up uses macOS indices for system-global file search. | It supports search-as-you-type and fuzzy, regex, and string filters. |
| Support | The maker directs users to email or Twitter for questions and to the issue tracker for bugs and feature requests. | The project invites users to discuss new ideas or enhancement requests in GitHub Discussions. |
Plans
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.