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nnn vs ranger: catalog facts
nnn	ranger
Free Free and open source under a BSD 2-clause licence.	Free Free and open source under the GNU General Public Licence version 3.
macOS, Linux, Command line	macOS, Linux, Command line
About 150 KB and typically under 3.5 MB of memory in use Analyses disk usage, batch renames, launches apps and picks files	Three-column view makes navigating a deep directory tree easy to follow rifle works out the right program to open each file type automatically
No Windows build outside Cygwin or WSL Previews and many conveniences need plugins and external programs	Python startup makes it noticeably slower than Go or Rust alternatives The last release was November 2024 and development has slowed
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: BSD-2-Clause	License: GPL-3.0
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026

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