CLUSTER TERMINAL-FILE-MANAGER · 54 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2015-07-07
Terminal file managers and utilities
The cluster comprises terminal-based file managers and related utilities for navigation, file operations, media browsing, archiving, and system tooling. Dated entries span from 2013-08 to 2026-07, with a mostly sparse early history and a noticeable increase in monthly entry counts starting around 2025-09. Traction leaders are rovr, yazi-nightly-bin, and Atoms, each with 0 stars.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 1 ai-built · 4 hand-coded · 9 unlabelled
Operator · 1 commercial · 12 open source · 1 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 14 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 41todlog0★8 mostaleliveopen sourceA terminal-based task and log manager that stores entries in Markdown files for personal tracking.
- 42mmtui-bin0★9 mostaleliveopen sourceTerminal user interface for mounting and managing disks, intended for use with terminal file managers.
- 43hibob-tui0★9 mostaleliveopen sourceTerminal UI for browsing and searching employee records in a corporate directory.
- 44transgender0★11 mostaleliveopen sourceA minimalistic terminal file explorer.
- 45fdCliFinal0★1 yrabandonedliveai-builtA command-line application that allows users to find and manage files quickly through a terminal interface.
- 46cdf0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceCommand-line tool that lets users bookmark and jump to frequently used paths in the terminal.
- 47opn0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceUtility for opening files from terminal with chosen applications.
- 48bookshelf0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal app that browses and manages a virtual bookshelf collection in the terminal.
- 49terminusdm0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal-based download manager with a text user interface for managing and monitoring file downloads.
- 50mc-pasman0★unknownlivehand-codedopen sourceConsole-based dual-pane file manager for browsing, editing, comparing, and managing files and directories from a terminal.
- 51extrattor0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceA terminal tool for managing multiple archive files.
- 52HTML Viewer Q0★5 yrabandonedlivehand-codedcommercialLightweight file manager that imports, views, and edits local HTML files with syntax highlighting and bookmarks.
- 53fifm-bin0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceTerminal-based file manager for browsing and organizing files.
- 54joshuto0★8 mostaleliveopen sourceTerminal file manager with a ranger-like interface for browsing and organizing files in the command line.
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