Rat Commander vs TUIFIManager

Rat Commander is a free, two-panel terminal file manager for Linux, macOS, and Windows. It brings file browsing and media viewing together with editing, archives, Git, remote filesystems, and system tools. Panels can show files as lists, trees, thumbnail grids, or interactive 3D views, and can be split vertically or horizontally. The built-in viewer and editor support syntax highlighting, search and replace, Markdown, tables, images, and in-place hex editing. Git tools cover tasks including staging, commits, branches, diffs, and history. Remote connections over SFTP, SCP, FTP, and FTPS let users work with remote filesystems in a local-disk-like way. ZIP, TAR variants, 7z, and other archives can be browsed and edited; RAR is read-only. QR codes support sending and receiving files over a local network. Linux disk tools can mount, format, flash, and image disks and USB devices. On Windows, Drive Manager and Network Connections are unavailable. Rat Commander is written in Rust with Ratatui and is licensed under GNU GPL-2.0-only.

TUIFIManager is a free, GPL-3.0 terminal file manager oriented toward Termux users, and it can also be imported as a component in a Uni-Curses project. Its listed keybindings cover copying, cutting, pasting, deleting, and renaming, as well as creating files and folders and toggling hidden files. Vim mode supports normal and vim shortcuts; the README also lists common mouse events and X11 drag-and-drop from terminals. The project supports Termux and includes several Termux-only keybindings. Installation instructions use pip, followed by running `tuifi` in a terminal. The README documents environment variables for settings such as vim mode, editor, configuration path, hidden files, and filename display lines. The project says it uses about 35 MB of RAM and requires Python 3.8 or newer. Synthetic XDND is experimental and requires requests, pynput, PySide6, and python-xlib. The README labels its documentation a work in progress and says changing default keys besides commands is not currently possible through configuration.