Wal Commander

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#68 of 100

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Score

6.4

The facts below are what the maker publishes about Wal Commander, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.

Plans and prices

From Wal Commander's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.

Plan	Price	What it gives you
Wal-Commander	Free	Freeware; licensing terms also offered on the maker’s License page

Each one read from Wal Commander's own pages, with the date it was checked.

Archive support: The maker lists read and write support for ZIP and several TAR and compression formats, plus read support for ISO images.checked 11 Oct 2026
Dual-pane view: Yeschecked 24 Sep 2026
Editor and viewer: The maker lists a text editor with syntax highlighting and a text viewer.checked 11 Oct 2026
Encoding: The editor and viewer can switch encodings, and console mode can use different system and terminal encodings.checked 11 Oct 2026
Implementation: The maker says Wal-Commander is written in C++.checked 11 Oct 2026
IPv6: The changelog says IPv6 support for FTP and SFTP was added in test mode and is disabled by default.checked 11 Oct 2026
License: The maker says the program can be distributed and used as freeware and under a license.checked 11 Oct 2026
Product: Wal-Commander is a freeware cross-platform two-pane file manager with graphical (wcm) and console (wcc) versions.checked 11 Oct 2026
Release history: The changelog lists version 0.24.3 dated September 22, 2020, while the home page identifies version 0.24.1 as current.checked 11 Oct 2026
Remote filesystems: Built-in virtual filesystems support SMB, FTP, and SFTP.checked 11 Oct 2026
Terminal: The package includes a separate terminal emulator called Wal Terminal (wterminal), and the file manager also has a built-in terminal.checked 11 Oct 2026

Maker: The home page credits Wal (Valery Goryachev) and provides the contact address [email protected].checked 11 Oct 2026

Supported platforms: Windows,Linuxchecked 24 Sep 2026
Windows SFTP limitation: The changelog notes that in the preceding Windows build, SSH and SFTP did not work on Windows 10 version 19.09.checked 11 Oct 2026
Windows update: The changelog says the Windows builds of wcm, wcc, and wterminal in version 0.24.2 were compiled with libssh2 1.9.0 and OpenSSL 1.1.1d.checked 11 Oct 2026