Nimble Commander 4+

Michael Kazakov

    • 4.8 • 22 Ratings
    • Free

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Description

Nimble Commander - Your Advanced Dual-Pane File Manager for Mac

Nimble Commander is a dual-pane file manager designed specifically for Mac users.
It is optimized for efficiency, providing blazing performance and instant feedback from the user interface.
While embracing the powerful concepts of traditional dual-panel managers, Nimble Commander also maintains a minimalist and clean UI design.
Nimble Commander comes at no cost and is completely open-source.

Key Features:
• Launches nearly instantaneously, has a small memory footprint, and operates at blazing-fast speeds.
• Capable of connecting to remote FTP, SFTP, and WebDAV servers, as well as Dropbox service, and includes the ability to edit remote files.
• Advanced batch renaming capabilities: decomposition, counters, regular expressions, timestamps, casing, and capitalization.
• Supports integration with external tools.
• Browses archives like folders, supporting a variety of formats including 7z, ar, bz2, cab, cpio, gz, iso, jar, lha, lz, lz4, lzo, mtree, pax, rar, tar, warc, xz, z, zst, and zip.
• Classic tabbed dual-pane interface offering different presentation modes: the traditional UI and a monospaced, text-based UI.
• Customizable keyboard shortcuts, fonts and colors.
• Various file panel viewing options: short, medium, full, and wide.
• Immediate file search and filtering capabilities as you type, with options for exact and fuzzy searches.
• Edit files using your preferred editors, selected based on file extensions.
• Includes a built-in file attributes editor and a file viewer that supports both textual and hexadecimal displays.
• File search capabilities by name, size, or content, including within archives, displayed as a file panel.
• Capability to create ZIP archives, with the option to encrypt them.
• Supports browsing, creating, and modifying extended attributes (xattr).
• Offers a lightweight search feature using Spotlight.
• QuickLook support, showing previews as a panel overlay, a floating window, or inside the file viewer.
• Displays system and volume information, presenting the list of processes as a folder.
• Calculation of file checksums on any Virtual File System (VFS).
• Supports creating and modifying file tags.
• Full keyboard access provides the fastest way to handle file management tasks.

If you have any questions or suggestions, please visit the forum at https://github.com/mikekazakov/nimble-commander/discussions.

What’s New

Version 1.6.0

- Nimble Commander is now completely free and open source.
- Added support for file tags.
- Fixed an issue that could stop directory updates on SMB volumes.
- Fixed an issue where the mouse cursor could navigate to the wrong directory.
- You can now extract files from archives by dragging them into the ".." directory.
- Fixed an issue where file permissions might not be restored correctly after extracting from an archive.
- Fixed a crash when accessing an FTP server.
- Fixed keyboard navigation issues with F1/F2 and Quick Lists pop-ups.
- Fixed a bug preventing correct duplication of a file that's being written to.

Ratings and Reviews

4.8 out of 5
22 Ratings

22 Ratings

chairmania ,

Super fast and flexible

This has been my go-to file manager for over a year. Powerful and fast.

Alaska Mertz ,

Nimble Commander

fast, excellent features, intuitive to use

cejeeb ,

Excellent

Classic interface. Easy, lean and very fast compared to some of the competing utilities

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