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muCommander vs Sunflower

muCommander

mucommander.com

Sunflower

sunflower-fm.org

Side by side

FiguremuCommanderSunflower
Price fromFree—
Free planYes—
Free trial——
Open source——
WindowsYes—
macOSYes—
LinuxYesYes
Plans published10
Spec score · File Manager Software8.5 (#12)7.2 (#89)
Archive supportYesYes
Batch renameYesYes
Dual-pane viewYesYes
LicensemuCommander is released under the GNU GPL v3 license.The download page says Sunflower is released under the GNU General Public License.
Supported platformsWindows,macOS,Linuxlinux
ProductmuCommander is an open source, dual-pane file manager.Sunflower is a small, highly customizable twin-panel file manager for Linux, intended to integrate with GNOME while also working in other environments.
Tabbed interfaceYesIt provides a tabbed interface for file operations.

Plans

muCommander

  • muCommanderFree

muCommander pricing →

Sunflower

No plans published.

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In their own words

muCommander

muCommander is a free, open-source dual-pane file manager for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Its file operations include copying, moving, renaming, batch renaming, and emailing files. Users can keep multiple locations open in tabs and navigate with universal bookmarks, a credentials manager, and configurable keyboard shortcuts. The virtual filesystem works with local volumes and protocols or systems including FTP, SFTP, SMB, NFS, HTTP, Amazon S3, Hadoop HDFS, and Bonjour. Dropbox and Google Drive are the listed cloud storage services. Archive support includes ZIP, RAR, 7z, TAR, GZip, BZip2, ISO/NRG, AR/Deb, and LST. Other features include checksum calculation, customizable toolbars and themes, and support for many languages. A portable version is available, and downloads are also listed for FreeBSD and other Java-supporting operating systems. Running the software requires Java 11 or later. muCommander is released under the GNU GPL v3 license and costs nothing. The download page lists SHA-256 checksums for release packages and an RPM GPG key. Support options include the Gitter community, GitHub issues, and FAQ.

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Sunflower

Sunflower has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.

Visit sunflower-fm.org