Growth · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to TriView Explorer
Hi HN, I built TriView Explorer, a lightweight Windows file manager designed to make deep directory navigation easier. I often work with multi-level project folders, and Windows Explorer made me open one folder after another, or juggle multiple windows just to see where I was. Existing alternatives focus on tabs or dual-pane layouts, but none showed Level1 / Level2 / Level3 / Deep at the same time. TriView's approach: 4 fixed panels (L1/L2/L3/Deep) Per-panel sorting (Name / Recent / Modified) Grouped Favorites Drag-and-drop between panels Undo for file…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Hi HN! I wrote a small program to browse folders in the terminal. The main inspiration was type-ahead search in GUI file managers. There exist several programs that are similar (see the listing in the README), but none of them do it quite the way I like, and often they have a very complex UI and a ton of features. I tried to make something that is obvious how to use and gets out of your way. (I also wanted an excuse to learn Rust.) Let me know what you think!
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Visual tool to explore SQLite databases page-by-page, the way they're stored on disk and the way SQLite sees them. - QuadrupleA/sqlite-page-explorer
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A Tiling Window Manager for windows 10, Inspired by i3wm - McYoloSwagHam/win3wm
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer. Contribute to sayanarijit/xplr development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ExplorerMax▲68Smart file manager, tabbed browsing, quick search, bookmarks
2020 · explorermax.drivethelife.com · its alternatives →
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Stack is a customizable tiling window manager for Windows.
2017 · losttech.software · its alternatives →
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- 9IM
I recently decided to try out Google Tasks as my only task management system, and while I find some things about the interface great, it really isn't suited for someone like me who has multiple lists with lots of elements on each. So, I whipped this together real fast and I can't imagine using Google Tasks without it anymore. I realized you might want it too, so I put it on the web. Enjoy :)
2011 · gtasker.com · its alternatives →
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Cosmil▲98A beautiful multi-pane Finder alternative, finally rebuilt
2024 · cosmil.app · its alternatives →
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GUI disk analyzers are great for figuring out what's filling up your laptop/desktop drive. On containers or remote servers, the options are limited to purely text based utilities (e.g. du) or list-centric TUIs (e.g. ncdu) which are usually limited to viewing one directory at a time. I created leaves to fill that gap. Inspired by classic utilities like WinDirStat and KDirStat, it uses a 2-dimensional treemap^1 visualization to show the entire directory hierarchy with proportionally sized rectangles. It's performant enough to handle millions of files, thanks to Rust and multi-threading.…
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Generates preview thumbnails for 3D model files. Provide a Windows Explorer extensions that adds preview thumbnails for 3D model files. - EYHN/space-thumbnails
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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This is a fork of Windows File Manager combined with a from-scratch remake of Program Manager. Fast, lightweight, and suitable for daily driver use.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Unusual file explorer with stickers, sketches and containers
2021 · supatupacommander.web.app · its alternatives →
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FolderPlus▲101Peek inside any folder without opening it
Jun 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Hey, HN! With all recent agentic workflows being primarily terminal- and tmux-based, I wanted to share a little project I created about decade ago. I've continued to use this as my primary terminal "window manager" and wanted to share in case others might find it useful. I would love to hear about other's terminal-based workflows and any other tools you may use with similar functionality.
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Inspired by Compiler Explorer and other playground/fiddle websites like jsfiddle, db-fiddle, Go playground, and Rust playground, I thought it would be cool to have a playground for nearly any program so I've been working on Program Explorer: a playground for running programs from containers. I am inspired by these playgrounds because they are great educational tools for quickly experimenting and as communication tools by sharing shortlinks that reproduce bugs for instance. I would love for every open source project that publishes a container to get their own playground for free. I'm…
2025 · programexplorer.org · its alternatives →
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A lightweight, X11 tiling window manager that behaves like vim - HarveyHunt/howm
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Standalone tree view file explorer, inspired by fzf. - wvanlint/twf
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Android, Productivity, Tools, Open it!, File Explorer
2017 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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I built DataRamen, a local-first SQL explorer that helps you get the data you need fast, without writing repetitive queries every time. You run it locally from the CLI (no cloud version yet), connect your databases, and you're ready to go. The goal is to let you explore and query data like you would in a spreadsheet: intuitive, fast, and without friction. Key features: - Automatic joins & related data navigation: Right-click any row to instantly see related records in other tables (based on foreign keys or references). - Keyboard-driven UI: Hit N to jump to a table, F to filter, and so on,…
2025 · dataramen.xyz · its alternatives →
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