nnn vs Yazi
nnn
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Yazi
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| Figure | nnn | Yazi |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Android | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · File Manager Software | 8.7 (#6) | 8.4 (#15) |
| Spec score · File managers | 8.7 (#4) | 8.4 (#10) |
| Spec score · Terminal File Managers | 8.5 (#7) | 7.7 (#23) |
| Archive support | Yes | Yes |
| Dependencies | Optional integrations include sshfs and rclone for remote mounts, gio trash or trash-cli for trash, and advcpmv for copy and move progress. | The required file utility detects file types; optional tools add capabilities such as video thumbnails, archive preview, PDF preview, and file searching. |
| File operations | It can analyze disk usage, batch rename, launch apps, pick files, and copy, move, delete, archive, and link selections. | Users can select multiple files and perform operations such as copy and cut, with tasks scheduled by the task system. |
| Navigation | It supports contexts, sessions, bookmarks, directory marks, and remote mounts through sshfs or rclone. | Yazi supports multiple tabs and quick navigation with fzf and zoxide. |
| Platforms | The project says nnn runs on Linux, macOS, Android through Termux, Cygwin, and WSL, among other environments. | linux,windows,macos |
| Plugins | Language-agnostic plugins can add capabilities such as live previews, disk mounting, file comparison, and uploads. | Yazi can be extended with Lua plugins, including functional plugins and custom previewers or preloaders; the plugin feature is marked beta. |
| Product | nnn is a full-featured terminal file manager designed to be small, fast, and nearly zero-configuration. | Yazi is a blazing-fast terminal file manager written in Rust and based on asynchronous I/O. |
| Search | It supports search-as-you-type and fuzzy, regex, and string filters. | Yazi supports searching by file name with fd and by file content with rg, then performing operations on search results. |
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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.