Detailed feature list
  • Two file panels side by side. Customizable file coloring based on the extension, customizable file panel colors and background.
  • Details panel: displays detailed information about the active item. Extensible.
  • Advanced drag and drop: a couple of unique features makes Zen Commander much better at drag-drop opertaions, such as the single-file drag, or the drop-targets.
  • Strictly non-modal UI: you can do anything, any time. You don't need to close any window, or decide on a yes/no question before you start doing something else.
  • Multithreaded command execution: every command every small thing the application might do is pushed back to a non-UI thread, so the UI is always responsive.
  • Basic operations: Copying, Moving, Deleting, directory listing, file create, executing and running command from command line.
  • Advanced operations: Folder size calculation, Conversion
  • Advanced bookmarking: central, extensible bookmarking system. Keeps all panel favourites, histories, associations, selection cache.
  • Selection cache: you can store your actual selection, and then restore it later.
  • Extensibility: Plugins. You can enhance and specialize Zen Commander easily.
  • Multi language support: the UI supports changing the UI language on the fly. You don't need to restart the application in order to switch to another language.
  • There are:
    • No feature restriction in the free version. In fact, there is no distinct free version, only one.
    • No nagging to buy or donate
    • No DRM
    • No obfuscation: you can ildasm it. But why don't you ask your question instead?
    • No advertisments (other than some acknowledgements on the About box)