IFM VS filemanager

Compare IFM vs filemanager and see what are their differences.

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IFM filemanager
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6.4 8.7
3 months ago 6 days ago
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MIT License Apache License 2.0
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IFM

Posts with mentions or reviews of IFM. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-30.
  • Single-binary php-capable webserver?
    2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 30 Dec 2022
    I was looking for an alternative to FileBrowser and found IFM. My target system neihter has PHP nor a webserver installed, so the single-binary FileBrowser does the job quite well. It's for single-user home use in a very special usecase and I want as small a footprint as possible.
  • Looking for file server recommendations
    4 projects | /r/selfhosted | 4 Sep 2021
    I have already found something that more or less fits my needs - IFM but after tests, it unfortunately tends to crush randomly, project doesn't seem to be maintained anymore, so I'm afraid, that this is not an option for a long run.

filemanager

Posts with mentions or reviews of filemanager. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-27.
  • Ask HN: Spreadsheets like Google Sheets but not from Google?
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jan 2024
    The OnlyOfffice desktop app is a pretty good and free alternative to Microsoft Office Suite. You can simply install it on your local machine for offline access.

    OnlyOfffice is also self-hostable as a web app for a cloud alternative to Google Sheets.

    Filebrowser is a self-hostable alternative to Google Drive.

    There's a pull request open to integrate OnlyOffice with Filebrowser for self-hosted google-drive + google docs.

    https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/pull/1420

  • Ask HN: What is the best FOSS file sharing protocol/app?
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Jan 2024
    For strictly local use, Google's Nearby share is technically FOSS but the documentation is basically non-existent and a proper Linux implementation is not here yet. Alternatives aren't hard to find though, with Mint's Warpinator or KDE Connect having worked well for me.

    For non-local use (everything out of Bluetooth range), you almost have to trust a third party and it really depends on your use case. Want to send your friend a file or host pictures of your birthday for multiple people to download? For the former magic wormhole works great, for the later you could almost spin up a nextcloud or similar (personally I like https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser ). Want to regularly send files from device 1 to device 2? Now classic sync solutions like syncthing become really viable.

    If everything else fails, FTP always has your back

  • Finally a decent file browser in Game mode
    1 project | /r/SteamDeck | 8 Dec 2023
    I have been looking for a file browser which can run in game mode and is reasonably user friendly for simple file operations (copy/delete/rename, etc). Most people recommend Dolphin. it does work but there are issues: the color scheme looks really weird in game mode. context menu does not like game mode, either. Got file browser working (https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser) in game mode, which essentially an Edge app accessing a web server on localhost (running as user service). It took some time to set up but the end result is exactly what I would like to have.
  • List of your reverse proxied services
    29 projects | /r/selfhosted | 5 Dec 2023
    File Browser - For access to the files on my NAS
  • Self Hosted File upload service
    1 project | /r/selfhosted | 3 Oct 2023
    filebrowser has user management plus sharing capabilities
  • Folder/File sharing with multiple links
    1 project | /r/selfhosted | 9 Aug 2023
    Filebrowser suppports multiple shares with different expiration dates. It also offers file previews and generates QR Codes for the shares.
  • I need help creating a diy nas for under $1000
    1 project | /r/HomeNAS | 11 Jul 2023
    NextCloud is great for this, but if we're talking sharing files from your sync'd project collection, I'd probably instead recommend Filebrowser. You can point it to the same data store that syncthing is using and it'll make it easy to share the projects. Note that in order to do this you'll need to open up and expose filebrowser publicly. The simplest way to do this would probably be a cloudflare tunnel and for sharing files like this ad-hoc I don't see any issues with their TOS. For things like SyncThing though you'll still wanna do conventional port forwarding. the DIY approach instead of CloudFlare tunnel would be to port forward, set up a dynamic dns record, and set up letsencrypt certs
  • Does FileBrowser have a log of downloaded files ?
    2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 5 Jul 2023
  • Self-Hosted "Cloud" suggestion
    3 projects | /r/homelab | 4 Jul 2023
  • A lightweight nextcloud alternative
    3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 1 Jul 2023
    Why don't you try File browser? (https://filebrowser.org/) I also looked for things you looked for. But I didn't find anything.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing IFM and filemanager you can also consider the following projects:

h5ai - HTTP web server index for Apache httpd, lighttpd and nginx.

Nextcloud - ☁️ Nextcloud server, a safe home for all your data

Encode Explorer

Filestash - 🦄 A modern web client for SFTP, S3, FTP, WebDAV, Git, Minio, LDAP, CalDAV, CardDAV, Mysql, Backblaze, ...

Apaxy - a simple, customisable theme for your apache directory listing

filegator - Powerful Multi-User File Manager

DirectoryLister - 📂 Directory Lister is the easiest way to expose the contents of any web-accessible folder for browsing and sharing.

OpenMediaVault - openmediavault is the next generation network attached storage (NAS) solution based on Debian Linux. Thanks to the modular design of the framework it can be enhanced via plugins. openmediavault is primarily designed to be used in home environments or small home offices.

Sprut.io - Beget File Manager App

Gossa - 🎶 a fast and simple multimedia fileserver

tinyfilemanager - Single-file PHP file manager, browser and manage your files efficiently and easily with tinyfilemanager