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Konvertor
Logipole
Konvertor is a fast and reliable two-panel, multi-tab file manager for Windows. It has an intuitive interface and offers viewers for all popular file formats as well as uncommon and very rare ones (4734 in the current version). Konvertor is a way to work with files more efficiently. Konvertor does not change any settings in Windows and does not hook itself into anything inside Windows. Konvertor 5.04 works seamlessly with both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 10, 8.1, 8, and 7. Konvertor is designed to be as fast as possible: quick navigation among directories, fast directory reading, and fast and smooth painting of panels and thumbnails. Konvertor is portable, it is configured to store all configurations and settings in the same folder that it is run from. Built-in viewers will instantly display the content of all file formats. Text and binary files, bitmap and vector images, videos, audio, and 3D files, Office documents or programs files.Starting Price: Free -
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Ultimate File Manager
Paweł Porwisz
Ultimate File Manager (UFM) is an advanced file manager distributed with carefully selected and configured freeware applications. The purpose of the UFM project is to make the best environment to run your favorite applications within one place. The main application of the project is well-known and appreciated total commander file manager (shareware) or its freeware equivalent multi commander. UFM lets you manage all of your files and applications in the best and simplest way. This properly configured, easy-to-use, and very powerful environment gives you the best experience, whatever you want to do! Ultimate File Manager is designed for the Microsoft Windows platform and is distributed to the end user as an installer, which is written in NSIS and Delphi CE. The installer is simple and intuitive. The installer copies all required files and configures the system properly (you can use both normal and portable installation).Starting Price: Free -
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Vifm
Vifm
Vifm is a file manager with a curses interface, which provides a Vim-like environment for managing objects within file systems, extended with some useful ideas from mutt. If you use vi, Vifm gives you complete keyboard control over your files without having to learn a new set of commands. Vim-like user mappings. Vim-like command-line mode with ranges and abbreviations. Vim-like marks and registers. Directory tree comparison. Operation undoing/redoing/backgrounding. FUSE file systems support. Color schemes can also be applied to specific sub-trees. File decorations are customizable according to their type and/or name. Named bookmarks (tags) Less-like preview mode with customizable viewers. Advanced file filtering and renaming capabilities. One or two pane views within tabs. Shell-like and external command-line editing. Table/grid/tree/miller views of files. Built-in integration with GNU Screen and tmux. Multi-block selection. Cross-platform (GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, Windows, Mac OS)Starting Price: Free -
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Worker
Ralf Hoffmann
Worker is a two-pane file manager for the X Window System on UN*X. The directories and files are shown in two independent panels supporting a lot of advanced file manipulation features. The main focus is to make managing files easy with full keyboard control, also assisting in finding files and directories by using the history of accessed directories, live filtering, and access to commands by using the keyboard. Worker is free software developed by Ralf Hoffmann and released under the GNU General Public License V2 or later. VFS support for fast and easy access to archives and remote sites. Execute external programs by entering the name and arguments including unlimited history. Powerful mechanism to bind external programs to buttons, hotkeys, or file types (e.g. gimp, tar, diff, mount), including inserting names of selected files, source and target directories, and much more. Text viewer both separately and in an embedded pane.Starting Price: Free -
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muCommander
muCommander
muCommander is an open-source, dual-pane file manager available on all major operating systems. Copy, move, rename and batch rename, email files. Multiple tabs and universal bookmarks. Credentials manager. Configurable keyboard shortcuts. Cloud storage Dropbox and Google Drive. Virtual filesystem with support for local volumes, FTP, SFTP, SMB, NFS, HTTP, Amazon S3, Hadoop HDFS, and Bonjour. Archives ZIP, RAR, 7z, TAR, GZip, BZip2, ISO/NRG, AR/Deb, LST. Checksum calculation. Fully customizable user interface, configurable toolbars, and themes. Available in many languages. muCommander is a lightweight, cross-platform file manager with a dual-pane interface. Java 11 or later is required to run muCommander. Report bugs, suggest new features, answer questions, write documentation, create video tutorials or translate the user interface. In order to start Open Office, you need to open the "natively" (mapped to shift-enter by default) document.Starting Price: Free -
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Far Manager
Far Manager
Far Manager is a program for managing files and archives in Windows operating systems. Far Manager works in text mode and provides a simple and intuitive interface for performing most of the necessary actions. Far Manager has a multi-language, easily configurable interface. File system navigation is made easier through the use of color highlighting and sort groups. The functionality of Far Manager is greatly extended by external DLL modules — plugins (made possible by a special set of interfaces — the Plugins API). For example, archive support, FTP client, temporary panel and network browser are all implemented as plugins included in the standard distribution of Far.Starting Price: Free -
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Directory Report
AMB Software
Show disk usage, directory printer, find duplicate files, rename files, and maintain your files - all in 1 tool Directory Report looks like the MS-Explorer but always shows the directory's size. This makes it easy to drill down to directories which are using all your disk space. Duplicate files are found by any combination of the same: Name, Size, Cyclic Redundancy Checksum (CRC32) or Comparing byte by byte Finds duplicate directories Multiple file rename Multiple file change date Multiple file change owner Powerful filters and report to many formats (Printer, Text file, Clipboard, Excel (CSV) file, Excel program, HTML file or XML file) Print a directory list and file list of an entire disk or a list of directories Prints DLL and EXE version information Prints AVI, MP3, MSI, WAV and MS-Office propertiesStarting Price: $25 -
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MassLongPathRepair
Internet & Computing Solutions, S.L.
MassLongPathRepair is a tool that allows us to fix all the problems related to long paths. It performs an exhaustive search in our system and locates those paths that exceed the length of 260 characters, to later be able to massively and automatically repair the hundreds or thousands of files and folders found in your system. Available in 6 languages. 3 ways to correct paths: - Moving files and folders to a short-length folder - Automatic shortening of folders and files - Deleting the folders or files A useful tool is included that allows us to copy and move folders on our system regardless of whether they contain long paths both at the origin and at the destination. This is useful for making backups safely or move our folders to another location.Starting Price: €29 -
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Fileside
Fileside
Fileside is a file manager for Mac and Windows that lets you create workspaces of tiled folders for each of your projects, collections or workflows. The folders you need will never be more than a click away. And reorganizing them becomes a breeze thanks to the side-by-side layouts. It was born out of frustration with stock file managers, and was designed to tackle the ongoing challenge of recalling where you saved things and repeatedly navigating to those locations. No more opening multiple windows, navigating to the right place in each one, then painstakingly resizing and arranging them just to start moving files around. Fileside also comes loaded with further productivity-enhancing features like full undo for everything, previews, search, advanced folder merging, favorites, history, full keyboard control, compression/extraction, theming etc.Starting Price: $29 -
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FileBrowser Professional
Stratospherix
All the professional features you need from a document management app for your iPad/iPhone. Connect to computers, Windows, Mac, servers, cloud storage, and USB drives. Edit documents in place and create automatic file backup and sync tasks. Rename files and folders in bulk, and so much more. One clean, consistent UI allows you to manage your files and folders by creating, deleting, and renaming, and providing the ability to copy, move, download, and upload. FileBrowser Professional's connections are so seamless it feels like everything is on one server. On an iPad use split-screen mode to drag and drop from a local USB flash drive to your web server's FTP site. Copy and paste files from Dropbox to Google Drive, or from any storage to any other. FileBrowser Professional is the only app you need to organize and access your storage. Easily copy and move documents and folders from one computer to another or to your cloud storage with our FileBrowser Professional iPad/iPhone app.Starting Price: $14.99 one-time payment -
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ExplorerMax
ExplorerMax
The chrome-styled tabbing feature enables you to open multiple files at the same window. It’s easy to switch from one to another. As for your favorites, you may add bookmarks with a drag-and-drop. In this way, you’ll get a better overview and always focus on the key part. If you want to track the file you managed at a certain moment, go and check Timeline. Here, you can find your browsing history classified into four groups -- Today, Yesterday, Latest Week, Latest Month. Then, the parent path is soon accessible. Moreover, for unwanted history, clearing them all or selectively is up to you. In ExplorerMax, you never bother to suffer from a slow search. As long as you enter the keyword in the search box and set the target file type, you can get grouped results in a second. When you have requests for fluent interactions between two tabs, dual-pane is a great solution to display an overview and save your time from frequent tab-switching.Starting Price: $5.95 per month -
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Windows File Explorer
Microsoft
File Explorer is the default file manager on Windows operating systems. File Explorer in Windows 11 helps you get the files you need quickly and easily. To check it out in Windows 11, select it on the taskbar or the Start menu, or press the Windows logo key + E on your keyboard. How to use File Explorer: To pin a folder to Quick access, right-click (or press and hold) the folder and select Pin to Quick access. To share a file, select it, then select Share on the ribbon. To move the location of a file or folder, select it and then select Cut on the ribbon. Navigate to the new location, then select Paste.Starting Price: Free -
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Clover
EJIE Technology
Clover is an extension of Windows Explorer, to add multi-tab functionality similar to Google Chrome browser. After installing Clover, you will be able to open multiple folders within the same window, and you can also add folder bookmarks. Clover currently only supports Windows XP and later versions of Windows (32bit/64bit), and supports the most common languages such as English and Chinese. Clover was a Windows Explorer plug-in integrated into the system, and the externally opened Explorer window was automatically hosted into Clover window. The Clover program does not get any message from the user. Some users use optimization software to disable the TabHelper plug-in, this will result in such a result, open IE’s “Manage Add-ons” menu, and look into “ExplorerWatcher class”. Just like Google Chrome, Clover works with many basic shortcut keys to help you navigate better and faster through your tabbed folders.Starting Price: Free -
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Aerize Explorer
Aerize
The file manager that everyone has been waiting for is here. Aerize Explorer enables direct file system access with the ability to move and copy files between devices and removable storage cards. Using a familiar folder browsing interface, you can see files on both the device and the external storage card. Aerize Explorer is the first file manager for Windows Phone that can read and write files and folders to storage cards and the device file system. Explore files and folders on your device or removable media card, search for video files, pictures files and music files. Recognizing common file types such as images, videos, music, and PDF files, this file explorer helps you to browse basic file information or launch files using the associated application. Start exploring the entire file system with Aerize Explorer today! -
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Metro Commander
Finebits
Metro Commander is an orthodox file manager which allows you to manage your files and folders from within the Modern Windows UI interface. Easily create, open, preview, rename, copy, move, delete, search and share files and folders. Browse your documents faster with navigation buttons (back, forward, up), thumbnail previews, shortcuts to your Images, Music and Videos folders and the ability to add shortcuts to your favorite folders. Manage your online files by logging into your SkyDrive account. Quick and convenient browsing of files and folders.Starting Price: $9.10 one-time payment -
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360 Sync
EVOLVE
Your entire team can now share constantly updated information from multiple platforms and applications. Available through an affordable, unlimited access license, 360 Sync takes less than 30 minutes to set up and then works behind the scenes, so you never have to think about file management again.Starting Price: $5,000 -
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Kingshiper File Manager
Kingshiper
1. Compress Files at Lightning Speed: Kingshiper File Manager supports all major compression formats, including ZIP, 7Z, TAR, and GZ. With multiple compression modes to choose from and the option to add passwords, your data is both compact and secure. 2. Smart & Fast File Extractor with Full Format Support: It supports 50+ different archive formats for maximum convenience and quickly extract files in seconds, making file access faster and more efficient 3. Efficient File Management & Simple File Previews: Manage files effortlessly in the list view to better extract/compress files and preview files within the archive without needing to extract them. 4. Intelligent Software Compression to Save Disk Space: This tool provides advanced smart scanning to identify software that can be compressed and lossless compression without affecting the normal function of program.Starting Price: $4.99 -
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NOOMAC File Manager
NOOMAC
Organizations tend to create large numbers of electronic files such as spreadsheets and word processing documents. Managing these files can be an administrative nightmare. Some organizations use expensive and complex document management software to manage their controlled documents but rely on Windows Explorer© for managing their day-to-day files. The NOOMAC File Manager is designed to provide simple file management at a minimum cost. If your organization uses long filenames and complex directory structures as a crude filing system then the NOOMAC File Manager will provide the answer to your file management problems. If you can use Windows Explorer© then you can use this product. Our first product the NOOMAC File Manager was developed over a three year period after observing the administrative problems experienced by our clients in managing their files. Many of these clients had purchased expensive and complex document management packages which they used for their controlled documents.Starting Price: $550 one-time payment -
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Fluent File Explorer
Microsoft
Windows Store version of Windows File Explorer using Fluent Design. Experiment with Fluent Design using the custom tint option. Manage your files with a beautiful, fully customizable File Explorer! Allows you to easily navigate your file system using a tree view/list view with or without touch. Copy, move, rename, create and delete files and folders. Also supports sharing so you can share your files with other Windows Store apps so you can email files etc. Allows you to manipulate files anywhere on your computer, including removable media such as USB drives, and also network drives (mapped or UNC path). Please report bugs or new feature requests through the email link so I can work with you to fix/implement them. If you don't see your favorite color scheme, mail me and I'll try and get it in.Starting Price: $6.89 one-time payment -
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File Browser
File Browser
File Browser is a create-your-own-cloud-kind of software where you can install it on a server, direct it to a path and then access your files through a nice web interface. You have many available features! File Browser is a single binary and can be used as a standalone executable. Although, some might prefer to use it with Docker or Caddy, which is a fantastic web server that enables HTTPS by default. Its installation is quite straightforward independent on which system you want to use. You are able to customize your File Browser installation by changing its name to any other you want, by adding a global custom style sheet and by using your own logotype if you want. To address this, there are three configuration options that can be changed: -
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NexusFile
beyondf
nexusfile is a dual pane file manager. It looks simple but has powerful features. Archive, FTP, Advanced Rename and many more functions. You can customize its look with skin and list color setting. Also you can customize shortcuts. -
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Allen Explorer
Allen Xiang
Allen Explorer is a file management software. Chrome-like interface design, simple and beautiful. Support multi-tab pages, favorites, dual windows and other functions. Files/folders can be pinned, marked with color, added notes, etc. Greatly optimize the file operation experience.Starting Price: $10/year/PC -
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ETCETERA ECM
ScerIS
ECM is the ETCETERA® (ETC) module for online browser-based document and file management for nearly any purpose. ECM is a fourth generation, mature, highly customizable product with features including the elimination of a windows client, scanning in the browser at full rated speed, and the ability to store and access over 300 file types through a Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) viewer supporting HTML5 and access on mobile devices. ECM is a technology platform used to organize, acquire, catalog, and access documents and files of all types. Applications configured in ECM are customer-managed and organized in document classes that are defined by the client. ECM makes content acquisition and access easy. Users access content acquired from different sources seamlessly within the application, and through content enabled EPM and seamlessly connecting other applications (such as the corporate ERP). All of this is accomplished in three simple stages. -
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Digital File Manager
Enlighten.Net
Resourceful companies constantly look for ways to reduce operational costs. Businesses waste time, money, and resources storing and moving paperwork. Paper documents are hard to share, costly to file, take up a lot of storage space, and are difficult to retrieve. Switching to web-based ENet Docs improves efficiency in daily operations, increases profit margins, and allows secure remote access to your critical documents. With ENet Docs you can quickly find the documents you need no matter where you are located. Implement more efficient processes, improve control of business documents, automate workflows and eliminate the reliance on paper records with ENet Docs. All documents, no matter how they are received are automatically indexed, converted to a fully searchable PDF and routed to their correct destination. With ENet Docs, there is no labor to name, move, or link documents of any type. -
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Frigate3
WinFrigate
Frigate3 is a handy file manager with built-in file viewers (DBF, RTF, HTML, DOC, Excel), handy utilities (TreeNotes, StartUp Manager, Calculator, SmartPad, and Directory Size Manager) and a wealth of other options that make managing and browsing through files easy. As a full-functional, advanced modern file manager, Frigate3 comes with network support, FTP file management (include SFTP and FTPS protocols) and various file compression and encryption options (zip, arj, rar, jar, ace, ha, lha, zoo, limit and hyper). The manager is equipped with a program-sorting feature that lets computer users quickly and easily make sense of media files stored on HDDs as well as external drives. In addition, the multithreaded program engine handles any number of concurrent file operations, such as copying, downloading, moving, searching, extracting, compressing and uploading files.
