nnn vs Unreal Commander
nnn
github.comUnreal Commander
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| Figure | nnn | Unreal Commander |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · File Manager Software | 8.7 (#6) | 7.9 (#43) |
| Archive support | Yes | Yes |
| Dual-pane layout | No | Yes |
| File operations | It can analyze disk usage, batch rename, launch apps, pick files, and copy, move, delete, archive, and link selections. | Features include extended file search, multi-rename, directory synchronization, and background copy, move, and delete operations. |
| Platforms | The project says nnn runs on Linux, macOS, Android through Termux, Cygwin, and WSL, among other environments. | windows |
| Plugins | Language-agnostic plugins can add capabilities such as live previews, disk mounting, file comparison, and uploads. | It supports WLX, WCX, and WDX plugins, with links to plugin listings on totalcmd.net. |
| Purpose | nnn is a full-featured terminal file manager. | Unreal Commander is a freeware file manager for Windows Vista/7/8/10/11. |
| Support | The project invites users to discuss new ideas or enhancement requests in GitHub Discussions. | The maker invites users to send questions, ideas, or bug reports in English or Russian and asks bug reporters to use the latest version. |
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.
Unreal Commander
Unreal Commander has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.