10 alternatives to yazi

sxyazi/yazi — 💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O. (42,958 stars, MIT, ui, files, dev-tools).

These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 1,086 licence-cleared components from sxyazi/yazi itself.

#	Repo	Score	Licence	Stars
1	jarun/nnn	5.8	BSD-2-Clause	22,094
2	jesseduffield/lazygit	6.4	MIT	83,341
3	wavetermdev/waveterm	7.1	Apache-2.0	22,591
4	yorukot/superfile	6.5	MIT	23,928
5	gitui-org/gitui	6.3	MIT	22,595
6	antonmedv/fx	7.4	MIT	20,695
7	spacedriveapp/spacedrive	6.1	Apache-2.0	39,282
8	hmbown/codewhale	6.3	MIT	41,111
9	lapce/lapce	4.2	Apache-2.0	38,954
10	vinhnx/vtcode	5.9	Apache-2.0	887

The alternatives in detail

jarun/nnn

n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager

score 5.8/10 · BSD-2-Clause permissive · 22,094 stars · 13 components · search them
jesseduffield/lazygit

simple terminal UI for git commands

score 6.4/10 · MIT permissive · 83,341 stars · 429 components · search them · alternatives
wavetermdev/waveterm

An open-source, AI-integrated, cross-platform terminal for seamless workflows

score 7.1/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 22,591 stars · 575 components · search them · alternatives
yorukot/superfile

Pretty fancy and modern terminal file manager

score 6.5/10 · MIT permissive · 23,928 stars · 157 components · search them
gitui-org/gitui

Blazing 💥 fast terminal-ui for git written in rust 🦀

score 6.3/10 · MIT permissive · 22,595 stars · 156 components · search them · alternatives
antonmedv/fx

Terminal JSON viewer & processor

score 7.4/10 · MIT permissive · 20,695 stars · 73 components · search them · alternatives
spacedriveapp/spacedrive

Spacedrive is an open source cross-platform file explorer, powered by a virtual distributed filesystem written in Rust.

score 6.1/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 39,282 stars · 1,317 components · search them · alternatives
hmbown/codewhale

Open-source agent for the terminal written in Rust. Use any provider or model. Issues & PRs always welcome

score 6.3/10 · MIT permissive · 41,111 stars · 1,950 components · search them · alternatives
lapce/lapce

Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust

score 4.2/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 38,954 stars · 131 components · search them · alternatives
vinhnx/vtcode

VT Code is an open-source Rust terminal coding agent.

score 5.9/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 887 stars · 2,399 components · search them

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