Is yazi still maintained?

Yes, active. Last change yesterday. Latest release v26.9.1, 2 months ago.

Widely used. 43k stars, 3 years old. As with any download, get it from the official repo.

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sxyazi/yazi

💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.

Rust#android#asyncio#cli#command-line

Before you start

Is it free?: YesOpen source (MIT).
Still maintained?: Yes, activeLast change yesterday. Latest release v26.9.1, 2 months ago.
Can I trust it?: Widely used43k stars, 3 years old. As with any download, get it from the official repo.

Difficulty: Easy
Time: about 5 min
Stars: ★ 43,364
Activity: Updated this month

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Will it work on Windows?

Yes, it installs on your Windows

A ready-made Windows download is in the latest release.

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Website ↗yazi-rs.github.ioThe project's own site.

Download for Windows

v26.9.1 · 9/1/2026 ↗

yazi-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip

zip · x64 · 17.1 MB · 25,094 downloads · best match

Download

Add the extracted folder to your PATH if it's a CLI tool.

Invoke-WebRequest "https://github.com/sxyazi/yazi/releases/download/v26.9.1/yazi-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip" -OutFile "yazi-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip"
Expand-Archive "yazi-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip" -DestinationPath .

Other Windows downloads (1)

yazi-aarch64-pc-windows-msvc.zip

zip · ARM64 · 16.1 MB · 1,423 downloads

Download

Add the extracted folder to your PATH if it's a CLI tool.

Invoke-WebRequest "https://github.com/sxyazi/yazi/releases/download/v26.9.1/yazi-aarch64-pc-windows-msvc.zip" -OutFile "yazi-aarch64-pc-windows-msvc.zip"
Expand-Archive "yazi-aarch64-pc-windows-msvc.zip" -DestinationPath .

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Good to know

Cargo workspace — pick a crate with cargo run -p <name>.
Has AGENTS.md — instructions for coding agents. You can open Claude Code (or another agent) in the cloned folder and ask it to do the setup for you.
Nested projects: yazi-actor/Cargo.toml, yazi-adapter/Cargo.toml, yazi-binding/Cargo.toml, yazi-boot/Cargo.toml and 11 more

Details

License: MIT
Open issues: 70
Branch: main

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.github/workflows/cachix.yml

.github/workflows/check.yml

.github/workflows/draft.yml

.github/workflows/lock.yml

.github/workflows/moderate.yml

.github/workflows/test.yml

CONTRIBUTING.md

Cargo.toml

README.md

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