nnn vs Shuffle
nnn
github.comShuffle
shuffleapp.coSide by side
| Figure | nnn | Shuffle |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 2 |
| Spec score · File Manager Software | 8.7 (#6) | 8.0 (#40) |
| Archive support | Yes | Yes |
| Dual-pane layout | No | Yes |
| Installation | The project offers a statically linked binary and packages, and can also be compiled from source. | The maker describes installing from a disk image by dragging Shuffle into Applications, or building from source with Rust and Cargo. |
| Integrations | Remote mounts can use sshfs or rclone, and nnn supports desktop openers, shell integration, and FreeDesktop-compliant trash utilities. | Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, and iCloud appear automatically; the app also supports mounted volumes and a Connect to Server dialog. |
| License | The GitHub repository identifies the project license as BSD-2-Clause. | The complete app is open source under the MIT license, with source code available on GitHub. |
| Navigation | It supports contexts, sessions, bookmarks, directory marks, and remote mounts through sshfs or rclone. | It includes dual panes with separate tabs, history, and filters, plus draggable tabs and a command palette with fuzzy search. |
| Platforms | The project says nnn runs on Linux, macOS, Android through Termux, Cygwin, and WSL, among other environments. | macos |
| Product | nnn is a full-featured terminal file manager designed to be small, fast, and nearly zero-configuration. | Shuffle is a free, open-source native file manager for macOS positioned as a Finder alternative for power users. |
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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.