When comparing Clover vs One commander, the Slant community recommends One commander for most people. In the question“What are the best file managers for Windows?” One commander is ranked 9th while Clover is ranked 30th. The most important reason people chose One commander is:
Free for non commercial use.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Vanilla Explorer with added option of Tabs in single window and bookmarking
Pro It looks very good
Pro Free
Free for non commercial use.
Pro Simple and fast
Fast search and filter.
Pro Multi tab support
Pro Themes
Light, dark and customizable themes/colours.
Pro Default file manager setup
Can make it the default file manager such that windows explorer stays out of the way for most of the work.
Pro Folder views can be saved and applied
Pro File previews
Pro Miller columns
Like Finder from macOS.
Pro File / folder filters
Cons
Con Malware/Adware in new versions
Con Rare bug which loop open new tab,
need to force close the apps with task manager
Con All instructions are in Chinese
It's really difficult to follow the installation wizard if you don't understand Mandarin.
Con Unsuccessful installation can corrupt original file explorer
That force you too lool for additional file manager and repair original files.
Con Cannot access Android device connected by USB
Con Cannot access Android device by FTP
And can never will as this is clarified by developer that this feature will never be added.
Con It doesn't have UNDO function
Very important. When you work with valuable data files, this function can't be ommited.
Con Navigating folders by Ctrl+Tab has considerable delay
Con Folders cannot be sorted by size
Con Browsing Recycle Bin is very slow
Navigating away from Recycle Bin tab and coming back to it reload the Recycle Bin which is very slow as mentioned. Program has an option to open recycle bin in Windows File Explorer, which suggests that developer is aware that opening Recycle Bin is problematic.
Con Confusing
Con Context menu only based on icons
