superfile vs TUIFIManager

superfile is a free, open-source terminal file manager built with Go and Bubble Tea, aimed at developers who work in the terminal. It supports copying, moving, deleting, renaming, fuzzy search, bulk operations, and image preview, alongside archive support. Users can split the view into multiple directory panes and copy or paste between them. Hotkeys are remappable, and themes, borders, and colors can be adjusted. The project lists more than 20 built-in themes and community plugins for functions such as Git status, system monitoring, custom commands, metadata, MD5 checksums, and smart directory jumping. Official support covers Linux, macOS, and Windows, though the project notes that Windows is not fully supported yet. Installation options include shell scripts for Linux and macOS, PowerShell, Winget, Scoop, Homebrew, Arch, NixOS, Pixi, and X-CMD. The installation guide recommends a Nerd Font, but superfile works without one. Its stated focus is lightweight file and directory tasks, rather than the full feature set of some other terminal file managers. The project is MIT licensed and self-installed.

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.