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QTTabBar vs File Pilot: catalog facts
QTTabBar	File Pilot
Free The software is free under its open-source licence. Hosting, hardware and external…	Freemium Free during the beta, with a paid license also offered.
Windows	Windows
Tabs, folder previews, grouping and keyboard navigation are added to Explorer itself, so the shell integration and…	Very small standalone download Fast flattened search across whole drives
It hooks into Explorer, so a Windows update can break it, and this fork carries Chinese-language additions from…	Still in beta (v0.8.5) Windows only
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Closed source
License: GPL-3.0	License not stated
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026

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