lf VS glow

Compare lf vs glow and see what are their differences.

glow

Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz! šŸ’…šŸ» (by charmbracelet)
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lf glow
108 60
7,168 14,718
- 2.6%
8.9 6.9
7 days ago 8 days ago
Go Go
MIT License MIT License
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

lf

Posts with mentions or reviews of lf. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-21.

glow

Posts with mentions or reviews of glow. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-15.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing lf and glow you can also consider the following projects:

ranger - A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console

markdown-preview.nvim - markdown preview plugin for (neo)vim

nnn - nĀ³ The unorthodox terminal file manager

pcstat - Page Cache stat: get page cache stats for files on Linux

ueberzug - ueberzug is a command line util which allows to display images in combination with X11. The user is expected to have knowledge of theoretical computer science. https://github.com/seebye/ueberzug/wiki/Troubleshooting/119e30f331799b30fb9594db29740685cb09425b

mdless

mpv-image-viewer - Configuration, scripts and tips for using mpv as an image viewer

mdcat - cat for markdown

lfm

glow.nvim - A markdown preview directly in your neovim.

xplr - A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer

bat - A cat(1) clone with wings.