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When comparing ForkLift 3 vs IINA, the Slant community recommends IINA for most people. In the question“What are the best Mac OSX apps for someone that's new to Apple?” IINA is ranked 16th while ForkLift 3 is ranked 19th. The most important reason people chose IINA is:
It's like mpv, just more user friendly GUI and more settings available via UI.
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Pros
Pro Best UX/UI'd file manager on the market
It's just a perfectly crafted app, try and enjoy
Pro Rewritten in Swift
Forklift 3 is a significant update from FL2, having been rewritten entirely in Swift.
Pro Optional dark UI
In addition to the default Mac gray UI, Forklift 3 offers an alternate "Dark Mode" featuring light text elements against dark backgrounds.
Pro Connect to and mount lots of storage options
FTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3, Backblaze B2, Google Drive, Rackspace CloudFiles, SMB, AFP, NFS, VNC, etc.
Pro Easily toggle hidden files
Pro Built-in application remover
Pro Like MPV with better GUI and settings
It's like mpv, just more user friendly GUI and more settings available via UI.
Pro Extremely stable
Extremely stable, even while still in the beta.
Pro Support for lots of codecs
Supports lots of video codecs, like mp4, mkv, etc, and lots of audio codecs including opus.
Pro Doesn't black out other displays when going full screen
It can black out other screens if you want, but out of the box it leaves your other displays alone.
Pro Runs on MPV so it's scriptable and runs any MPV script.
More information here.
Tip: if you're doing a lot of cropping and slicing of videos and you thought the new quick tools in Finder / Quicktime Player are a great improvement, try setting up IINA with slicing.lua and some keybindings for navigating your video + setting the slicing positions.
Make sure your ffmpeg command (in slicing.lua) is set to copy the original codecs and that it's using your GPU.
Pro Online subtitle searching and intelligent local subtitle matching
Pro Fully customizable keyboard, mouse, trackpad, and gesture controls
Pro Open source
Pro Powered by FFmpeg
Cons
Con Like Apple, it does not standardize file size. Mixes up KBs, MBs GBs in the same column which makes it very difficult to review file sizes
Con Like Apple, shows the date of Today's file as "Today" instead of the actual date
Con Does not sync the "selected" folders (i.e. highlighted ones), but the "current" folders (i.e. the top of the visible tree.)
Con Does not show the fixed tree section in the left pane of a dual horizontal panes
Con Unstable
May crash unexpectedly, while clicking on something in the subtitles section in the right-hand panel, for example.
Con Blacks out other displays when going full screen
