Free file managers

PeaZip is a free and open-source file manager and file archiver for Microsoft Windows, Linux and BSD made by Giorgio Tani.

PCMan File Manager (PCManFM) is a file manager application developed by Hong Jen Yee from Taiwan which is meant to be a replacement for Nautilus, Dolphin and Thunar.

7-Zip is an open-source file archiver, an application used primarily to compress files.

emelFM2 is an orthodox file manager which uses the GTK+ 2 widget toolkit for X11 on Unix-like operating systems.

DOS Navigator is a free orthodox file manager for DOS, OS/2 and Windows.

KRename is a KDE software that can be used for renaming multiple files and directories at one time.

GNU Midnight Commander (also known as mc, the command used to start it) is a free cross-platform orthodox file manager.

Krusader is an advanced orthodox file manager for KDE and other desktops in the Unix world.

Far Manager (short for File and ARchive Manager) is an orthodox file manager for Microsoft Windows and a clone of Norton Commander.

Konqueror is a free and open-source web browser and file manager that provides file viewer functionality for file systems such as local files, files on a remote FTP server and files in a disk image.

KGB Archiver is a file archiver and data compression utility based on the PAQ6 compression algorithm.

The ROX Desktop is a graphical desktop environment for the X Window System.

muCommander is a lightweight, open-source, cross-platform file manager that will run on any operating system supporting Java.

GNOME Commander is a 'two panel' graphical file manager for GNOME.

GNOME Files, formerly and internally Nautilus, is the official file manager for the GNOME desktop.

gentoo is a free file manager for Linux and other Unix-like computer systems created by Emil Brink.

Double Commander is an open source multi-platform two-panel orthodox file manager that is inspired by the Microsoft Windows-only Total Commander.

OpenTracker is the open source version of the Tracker file manager for BeOS-compatible operating systems.

Haiku Tracker is a graphical user interface for managing files of the Haiku operating system.

Dolphin is a free and open source file manager included in the KDE Applications bundle which contains applications used primarily with the KDE Plasma 5 desktop.

SpaceFM SpaceFM is a desktop-independent multi-panel tabbed file and desktop manager.

Xfm (X File Manager) is a graphical file manager for the X Window System.

Métamorphose or Métamorphose file -n- folder renamer is an open source batch renamer.

Dired (for Directory Editor) is a visual directory editor, a computer program for editing file system directories.

ranger is a free text-based file manager for Unix-like systems.

File System Visualizer, also known as fsv, is a 3D file browser using OpenGL, created by Daniel Richard G.

GPRename is a computer program for renaming multiple files and directories at one time.

Advanced Renamer is a batch renamer program that can rename multiple files and folders at once.

X File Explorer (Xfe) is a graphical file manager for the X Window System for Unix and Unix-like operating systems, written by Roland Baudin.

B1 Free Archiver is a proprietary multi-platform file archiver and file manager.

Nemo is the official file manager of the Cinnamon desktop environment.

Mtools is an open source collection of tools to allow a Unix operating system to manipulate files on an MS-DOS file system, typically a floppy disk or floppy disk image.