About

Altap Salamander, a file manager originating from Czechia, is a small, two-pane application renowned for its open plugin architecture and robust capabilities. It allows users to view content across various formats including text, HTML, over 40 picture types, and MP3s, and provides extensive support for archives such as zip, rar, arj, cab, and tar/gzip. The software also integrates (S)FTP and SSH support, offers file compression, and is highly customizable and extensible via plugins. Praised for being lightweight, offering dual-pane support, and functioning offline without registration, Altap Salamander is available for Windows under a Free Proprietary license. Users consistently highlight its practicality, performance, and efficient RAM usage, considering it a superior alternative to other file explorers. While lauded for its advanced features and overall usability, some feedback points to areas for improvement, including the absence of a tree view, bookmarks, multi-tab functionality, and challenges with Unicode handling, with a desire for ongoing development.