Page 6 | Best System Utilities for Linux of 2025

fman

Press Ctrl+P to quickly jump to a directory. fman remembers which folders you visit most often and suggests them first. This is so much quicker than manually navigating through directory hierarchies. Tailor fman to your needs via its powerful plugin system. Install plugins created by others, or write your own and share them with the community. fman is an alternative to file managers such as Explorer on Windows or Finder on macOS. You use it to browse directories, copy or move files, mount external drives, etc. It lets you perform these tasks much more efficiently than other file managers. This makes it extremely easy to copy or move files. You just open the directory you want to copy from on one side and the destination on the other. A simple keyboard shortcut then performs the copy. Unlike other file managers, you don't have to deal with multiple windows, drag files, or copy/paste in separate steps. File-related tasks can be carried out much more quickly that way.

Starting Price: €39 one-time payment

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TagSpaces

TagSpaces UG

TagSpaces is privacy aware, cross-platform file browser with note-taking capabilities. It helps you organize your files and folders with tags and colors. Free downloads are available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android. With the built-in advanced markdown editor, you can create notes that can include tables, todo-lists, math formulas, or diagrams. TagSpaces can connect to any folder on your hard drive and provide a convenient way to browse its content. You have the ability to add labels called tags to any file or folder. Using tags along the folder hierarchy allows you to have cross-references in the folders. The built-in search allows you to find files with any combination of tags. On top of that in the Pro version, you can add descriptions and geo-tags to files and folders. The Pro version gives you the ability to turn every folder to a Kanban board, which can be useful in many ways. With the TagSpaces Web Clipper, you can collect web pages and bookmarks from the Web.

Starting Price: $39 per year

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JDiskReport

JGoodies

JDiskReport enables you to understand how much space the files and directories consume on your disk drives, and it helps you find obsolete files and folders. The tool analyses your disk drives and collects several statistics which you can view as overview charts and details tables. This is ad-free uncrippled no-charge software that never expires. JDiskReport runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, and other platforms. It requires Java. JDiskReport requires Java. Make sure Java is installed before you install JDiskReport. The tool has been tested on Windows, Mac, and Linux; it runs also on Solaris and other Java-enabled operating systems. A stable preview of JDiskReport 2 is available. This version is rawer than other releases that you have downloaded from JGoodies in the past. It lacks some features (you cannot click in the size pie), but can be run as a cron job (executed in the background), provides more information, and has seen a visual cleanup.

Starting Price: Free

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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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4Pane

4Pane is a multi-pane, detailed-list file manager for Linux. It is designed to be fully featured without the bloat and aims for speed rather than visual effects. In addition to standard file manager things, it offers multiple undo and redo of most operations (including deletions), archive management including 'virtual browsing' inside archives, multiple renaming/duplication of files, a terminal emulator, and user-defined tools. As you can see from the Screenshots its display is split into a left directory tree-view, and a right detailed-list view which by default shows both files and directories. There are normally two of these twin panes displayed (thus the name) but this, and almost everything else, can be configured to suit your needs. It has been built and tested on all the main Linux distros, using both current and older versions. Though it has a gtk-style appearance, it's not tied to any particular desktop.

Starting Price: Free

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QtFM (Qt File Manager)

QtFM

Qt File Manager for Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS. XDG integration. Customizable interface, powerful custom command system, customizable key bindings. Drag & drop functionality, tabs support, removable storage support. System tray daemon (qtfm-tray(1)) Show available storage/optical devices in the system tray. Auto mount (and open) storage/optical devices when added (not default). Auto-play CD/DVD (not default). Extensive thumbnail support (6.2+) Supports image formats through ImageMagick. Supports PDF and related documents. Supports video formats through FFmpeg. Supports embedded images in media files.

Starting Price: Free

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Sunflower

Small and highly customizable twin-panel file manager for Linux. It is intended to be an easy-to-use and powerful file manager that seamlessly integrates into the GNOME desktop environment (but is not limited to). Feature-packed configuration to help make the program your own. More flexibility in your daily operations through easy to use interface. Set of tabs for every occasion. Visually mark your files and directories for quick reference. Quick access to the command line interface through terminal tabs, VTE, or external. Better multitasking with full multithreading support. Easily extensible with Python and GTK+. Fully optimized for keyboard users. Sunflower is a small and highly customizable twin-panel file manager for Linux with support for plugins. Fully compatible and native to Wayland compositors.

Starting Price: Free

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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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FontBase

FontBase is built for designers, by designers. We understand what you need and deliever a set of great features to help you find the right font. The largest set of supported OpenType features of any font software at your fingertips. One-click super-fast search for fonts, even in the biggest libraries with thousands of files. Play around in Preview tab, applying styling to H1, H2, and other page elements. All missing fonts are activated automatically in your Photoshop, Illustrator or InDesign documents. Use more screen space by viewing your fonts in a tight and clean grid. Manage and search through tags. Contribute to a growing database of community curated tags.

Starting Price: $3 per month

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Workmark

Helps you choose fonts for your creative projects. Enter a word or a phrase to preview with fonts on your computer. Did you ever find yourself squinting at a list of fonts, in a drop-down menu, trying to find the right font? Only to find out that the font that you picked doesn't even look good with your text? Wordmark shows your text with all your fonts, arranged in a visual grid, allowing you to compare and pick the best one. You can use Wordmark to pick the right font for your crafting projects, logos, sign, posters, invitations, school projects, quotes, and anywhere that you want to make a difference with the right font. Type a word, phrase, paragraph, or letter into the big text area and hit Enter on your keyboard. Wordmark will show you how your text looks with the fonts on your computer. You can scroll through the results and choose a few options by clicking on them. Wordmark automatically adjusts the size of the fonts based on the length of your entry.

Starting Price: $2 per month

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Adobe Fonts

Find the perfect font for your next creative project. The latest fonts are included with the subscription. Featured in Adobe Express templates. Try popular design templates that use our fonts in Adobe Express. The entire library of Adobe Fonts can be used for personal and commercial projects. Create images or vector images, including logos. Create a web project to add any font from our service to the website. Embed fonts in PDF to view and print. Use sources to create internal or commercial video content. All the latest fonts in Creative Cloud.A showcase of font houses collaborating on Adobe Fonts. Meet the people behind each typeface. Don't miss our live broadcast with expert typography guests. Still haven't found what you're looking for? Quickly find the fonts you need with our sorting filters and language support. Easily activate as many fonts as you need from over 20,000 options. No additional charges: all fonts are included with your Creative Cloud subscription.

Starting Price: $39.99 per month

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Octo Browser

An antidetect browser is a specialized tool designed to help users create and manage multiple online accounts while avoiding detection, bans, or restrictions. It is particularly useful for digital marketers, social media managers, affiliate marketers, and individuals who require anonymity and privacy when browsing the internet. This software works by masking users' digital fingerprints, preventing websites from linking multiple accounts to the same person. It integrates seamlessly with proxy servers, allowing users to switch IP addresses effortlessly, reducing the risk of detection. Additionally, it enables per-account management of cookies, browser settings, and other identifiers, ensuring each profile operates independently. With robust privacy features and a user-friendly interface, it is an essential tool for those who require secure and organized online account management.

Starting Price: €10 per month

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Indigo Browser

Indigo

Antidetect for comfortable and safe work with all types of antifraud systems. An indispensable tool for affiliates, launching advertising campaigns, creating accounts for uploading applications, as well as various advertising networks, and launching advertising campaigns. Adapted and unique database of prints, which is constantly updated and updated. Reliability and successful passability of checks of your digital fingerprint on most anti-fraud systems. Create your own team by issuing individual access rights to each member, track the status and status of their profiles. Advanced browser emulation of Android mobile devices. The software allows you to immediately start working, without additional settings and manuals, thanks to automated functionality, everything is already configured for you. Indigo is the only anti-detect in which you can work with two types of browsers. Mimic is a browser with browser identity protection technologies, developed on the basis of Chrome.

Starting Price: €99 per month

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Linken Sphere

Tenebris

We are pleased to bring to offer your the most convenient and secure tool for professional work on the Internet. This software, thanks to its capabilities, makes it possible to fully investigate antifraud systems vulnerabilities of various complexity and focus, based on such complex structures as Fraudscore, MinFraud, SiftScience, ThreatMetrix and others. The browser is equipped with systems of protection and substitution of prints (GPU, Audio, Canvas, Plugins, Fonts, ClientRects, Ubercookies). No one will be able to recognize the configuration of your hardware, if you work with Linken Sphere, it will protect you from any attempt of identification. The browser does not just prohibit their acquisition, it gives the corrected information, forming a unique user portrait, used by you as much as necessary. The browser provides not only the ability to quickly and qualitatively generate parameters for each new session, but also gives you the most complete options to setup configurations.

Starting Price: Free

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Sphere

The browser has systems for protection and fingerprint substitution (GPU, Audio, Canvas, Plugins, Fonts, ClientRects, Ubercookies) automatically changing them for each new identity. Nobody can recognize the configuration of your real computer if you surf with Sphere, it protects you against any identification attempt. Sphere operates in off-the-record mode, during software operation all current files and data are saved in RAM till its closure. Thus, it is impossible to get access to information about visited sites and activities in them even using spying solutions (viruses) installed directly on the computer. The software allows you easily substitute your IP address using, e.g., TOR. Users who do not trust an onion network can make use of multi-flow SOCKS and SSH connections. You are everywhere and nowhere at the same time. The browser uses the best-protected type of data encryption to keep safe information saved to the computer in case of necessity.

Starting Price: Free

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AnyTree

Gosh

Introducing AnyTree — the first software deployment system secured by the blockchain. On AnyTree, whatever apps developers distribute or use, are delivered exactly as they are supposed to be. The Software Supply Chain is a high-impact area. Yet there exists a distinctive lack of secure, trustless, verifiable, and transparent delivery of source code/binaries to developers and users in all software fields. Storing your code on a git means it has an owner, a single point of control, which leads to security vulnerabilities. Currently, there is no industrial solution available that is not centralized and thus not dependent on the decisions of a few actors. The main way in which GOSH solves this issue is by allowing developers to build consensus around their code, so the more code is written, the more secure it becomes.

Starting Price: Free

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SMBAct

SMBlob.com

Your personal assistant to simplify the process of interacting with all your windows and applications. All-in-one cross-platform window manager and switcher. Solve window management in a consistent way across three (Windows, MacOS, Linux) platforms. Get both window manager and window switcher in one application. Embed any website to the frameless window with the topmost functionality. Activation of any window on active display, main display, or where there is a mouse pointer, fast-moving of windows between displays, and hiding all windows only on active display. For multi-windows applications, when the target window disappears and you use the keyboard shortcut again, it will display a notification informing you that the window has been lost. So the user can use the fix/same keyboard shortcut to target a new window and ask the user to set a new keyboard shortcut to bring this window to the front.

Starting Price: €8 one-time payment

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awesome

awesome is a highly configurable, next-generation framework window manager for X. It is very fast, extensible and licensed under the GNU GPLv2 license. It is primarily targeted at power users, developers and any people dealing with everyday computing tasks and who want to have fine-grained control on their graphical environment. A window manager is probably one of the most used software applications in your day-to-day tasks, along with your web browser, mail reader and text editor. Power users and programmers have a big range of choice between several tools for these day-to-day tasks. Some are heavily extensible and configurable. awesome tries to complete these tools with what we miss: an extensible, highly configurable window manager.

Starting Price: Free

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i3

i3 is a tiling window manager, completely written from scratch. The target platforms are GNU/Linux and BSD operating systems, our code is Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) under the BSD license. i3 is primarily targeted at advanced users and developers. Based upon the experiences we made when wanting to hack/fix wmii, we agreed upon the following goals for i3. This includes being modifiable by people who do know how to program but who are not necessarily familiar with all of X11’s internals. That is, document why things happen and when they happen so that the user gets a picture of the whole process a Window Manager is responsible of by just reading the source code. Implement multi-monitor correctly, that is by assigning each workspace to a virtual screen. Especially make sure that attaching and detaching new monitors like video projectors works during operation and do the right thing. Also, provide support for rotated monitors.

Starting Price: Free

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Aryson Email Migration Software

Aryson

Best Software to migrate 15+ email clients and 8+ file formats to different email file formats, non-email file formats and webmail email clients with high precision. Allows users to migrate emails held in OST, PST, MBOX, EML, EMLX, OLM, and MSG to different web-based email clients, email file formats, and non-email file formats. Moreover, the software also helps users migrate the email file formats to different email file formats and non-email file formats. Here, have a look at the working procedures of Gmail to Office 365 migration. Maintains the hierarchy of the folders present in the various file formats and email clients while migrating to other saving options. Support to save the attachment’s file of email into PDF format while saving into PDF format.

Starting Price: $399 one-time payment

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SysTools Email Migration Tool

SysTools

Using the Cloud Migration Tool, selectively migrating data from cloud to cloud is facilitated. The Date-Range feature allows settings dates “from” and ”to” for a specific time period. Choose the Category filter for exporting data from different items of the mailbox. To keep the data integrity and structure of the folder maintained, this tool is built with advanced algorithms for the same. During and after the migration procedure, the original folder structure and data integrity is displayed as before the transfer process. The migration procedure is paused if the connection is lost during an on-going operation. When the connection is re-established, the procedure is restored and resumes eliminating the need to starting it all over again.

Starting Price: $5 one-time payment

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Active@ KillDisk

LSoft Technologies

KillDisk Industrial Desktop brings a complete and affordable industrial-grade disk sanitation hardware solution to the consumer market. Highly customizable for any context, supporting U.S. DoD erasure and fully automated operation, this system is a must-have for any organization with strong disk erasure requirements. The licensing policy assumes no extra cost per disk erased. Disk Erase (disk's surface complete sanitation) for HDD, SSD, M.2 & USB disks. Support for 24 sanitation standards including US DoD 5220.22M and NIST 800-88. Erase verification, resume interrupted erase and disk hidden zones reset. High-performance parallel erasing of multiple disks at the same time. Supports PDF certificates & XML exports, emailing results, and reports customization. Displays and monitors health status for all disks based on S.M.A.R.T. info. Disk sectors and volumes can be inspected on a low level in the advanced disk viewer.

Starting Price: $40 one-time payment

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BCWipe

Jetico

Delete files forever. Use military-standard procedures to wipe files and Data Remanence beyond forensic recovery. BCWipe enables you to permanently wipe files selectively so that they can never be recovered or undeleted – even wipe free space and wipe file slack space to clear previously deleted data. The primary advantage for users running transparent wiping is that it eliminates time-consuming processes to wipe free space, wipe temporary files or wipe old file versions. After activation, BCWipe's transparent wiping will automatically wipe files and folders and all their contents when deleted on the fly. You no longer need to worry about securely erasing all traces of every single sensitive file you've been working on.

Starting Price: $39.95 one-time payment

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4K Image Compressor

Open Media

4K Image Compressor is a free cross-platform app that lets you optimize PNG, JPEG, HEIC, and WEBP images quickly and without quality loss. With 4K Image Compressor, you can: Reduce the size of an image by a desired number of percent or to a particular size in megabytes, kilobytes, or even bytes PNG, JPEG, HEIC, and WEBP are supported for optimization and conversion, and more are coming soon Batch compression is available to save your time You can upload images in lossless and lossy formats.

Starting Price: Free

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Office Server Document Converter

Antenna House

Office Server Document Converter (OSDC) - integrated server based file conversions. OSDC streamlines complex document conversions. It effortlessly transforms Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and RTF files into PDF or image formats without reliance on Microsoft Office or Adobe. With user-friendly design and robust performance on Windows and Linux, OSDC seamlessly integrates into existing applications or workflows via APIs like Java, .Net, COM, Command-line, and C/C++. Simplify your server-based conversions while enjoying fast and reliable high-volume conversion. Sign up for a free 30-day trial

Starting Price: $540 per system Annual

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MightyGrep

Sunbound Software LLC

MightyGrep is a file finding and text searching application. File filters allow DOS semantics (wildcard * ?) or regex syntax. Users can view results in either a provided external editor or the built-in file viewer. Search results can be exported to either a file or clipboard. This program does not rely on filesystem indexing to function. This program searches both binary and plaintext.

Starting Price: $9.99

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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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FreshRSS

FreshRSS is a self-hosted RSS and Atom feed aggregator. It is lightweight, easy to work with, powerful, and customizable. Follow websites, podcasts, and video channels in a single place. Read your articles directly in FreshRSS. Search and save queries for quick access. Generate feeds by scraping external websites. Generate new feeds based on your filters. Import and export your feeds with OPML. Stay connected to your feeds in real time. Adapt to your needs thanks to a lot of options. Follow your feeds with or without a third-party application. FreshRSS can manage 1M+ articles and 50k+ feeds without complaining. Customize FreshRSS with themes and extensions. FreshRSS is translated in more than 15 languages. FreshRSS is an RSS aggregator and reader. It allows you to read and follow several news websites at a glance without the need to browse from one website to another.

Starting Price: Free

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Raven Reader

Raven is a open source desktop news reader with flexible settings to optimize your experience. No login is required, and no personal data is collected. Just select the websites you want to curate articles from and enjoy. Raven strips away all the distracting content from the original articles, annoying ads, banners, and awkward layouts. You control how Raven displays the content. Choose a theme you love. Customize your fonts and display size. Configure your layout and hide what you don’t need. Save the articles you like for offline reading to enjoy whether you’re up in the Himalayas or in an underground train. Some companies track the content you’re viewing so they can try to sell you more stuff. That’s not cool, we respect your privacy. Group your feeds and diverse interests by category. Create as many as you want. Social sharing, email, and read-it-later options so you and your network never miss out.

Starting Price: Free

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