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MiXplorer
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Unlimited tabbed browsing and dual panel in landscape mode and drag and drop between panels also supported
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Not on PlayStore
The developer has chosen to not place the app on the Play Store but to offer it for free on the XDA forums. This may be inconvenient for some as the app will have to be side loaded.
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SAMBA, FTP, SFTP, WEBDAV, BLUETOOTH support
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Image browsing
Image browsing has bugs.
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Can do tasks in background
Things like pasting/moving files can be done in background.
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Search
Search doesn't work in landscape mode.
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Extract and create compacted files
Extract and create 7z and Zip/Zip64 (splitted-encrypted), TAR, TAR.GZ, TAR.BZ2, GZIP, BZIP2 and extract RAR (splitted-encrypted, RAR5), XZ, APM, CAB, ISO, ARJ, AR, LZH, LHA, CHM, MSI, WIM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB, NSIS, LZMA, NTFS, FAT, VHD, MBR, SWM, MSLZ, CramFS, Dmg, ELF, MachO, Mub, PE, Split, Xar, Z, Udf, HFS, SquashFS, PPMD.
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Buggy sometimes
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Queue Tasks
Can Queue every task, copy, paste, move, delete , rename etc.
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Some features are not free
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Root access for all advanced operations
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Theming support
Download and apply a theme or easily create you own.
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Active forum support
Lots of guys giving pointers on the xda.
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Available for Android TV
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Multilingual
Supported languages of the main program: English, German, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, French, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian,Tamil and many more.
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FTP/HTTP server built in
Share files trough the browser.
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Tasker
Automate tasks.
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All your cloud storage needs accessible from one single app
Choose from 19 providers: Mega.co.nz, Dropbox, Box, Yandex, HiDrive, Baidu, Mediafire, Kuaipan, Kanbox, IDrive, Hubic, 4Sync, Google Drive, Copy, Meo, OneDrive, pCloud, SugarSync, VDisk. clouds which support webdav like (Yandex.ru, OwnCloud, MyDrive.ch, DriveHQ, CloudMe, CloudSafe, ...).
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Amaze File Manager
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8
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Open source
Amaze File Manager is an opensource file manager.
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Slow
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Material Design and fast operation
Amaze File Manager follows the Material Design guidelines as well as operates very fast.
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SMB and SFTP fails
Failed to connect to server using either SMB or SFTP.
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Built-in FTP server
That's an easy way to access your phone filesystem from another device. But be careful when using it on untrusted networks, because FTP protocol has encryption.
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Cannot do file actions in ZIP packages
You have to extract all files from "package.zip' package to a new folder 'package' if you want to view a single file.
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Light and dark themes
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No networking tools
Sadly there are no networking tools built into Amaze File Manager.
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Light on resource consumption
This app has a very specific purpose - browsing and interacting with your files. It remains light (no incurred battery usage) and doesn't pollute your phone with new apps to open your files but instead uses your default applications for that.
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Built-in SMB client
Amaze File Manager can connect to SMB shares (AKA samba, AKA window shared folders). Press the "+" button, then "Cloud connection", then "SMB Connection".
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Built-in root explorer
If your Android device is rooted, you can use this app to access system files.
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Great customer support
Support is available 24/7. Your emails will be answered within 24 hours.
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Dir - Open Source File Manager
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Light on resources
The app doesn't take up much storage space; dark mode serves as a battery-saver.
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Out of date
Latest commit on Mar 26, 2018
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Privacy-focused
This app doesn't collect any of your private data and it doesn't require any unnecessary permissions.
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Very Basic
It has basic features only. You can copy, paste, move files but no root explorer, SMB etc .
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Does not support root yet
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Platforms:
Android
License:
Apache 2.0
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AntTek Explorer Ex
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Beautifully designed
The Holo like UI looks nice as well as operates fluidly with all of the built in features such as the dual pane view.
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SMB support is limited and speed is an issue
SMB support has trouble with larger files. The app also has speed issues when navigating.
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Themes
AntTek Explorer Ex has light and dark themes built into the app as well as support for outside themes.
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It can zip and unzip
AntTek Explorer Ex has built in .zip file support for compressing and .zip and .rar support for uncompressing files.
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Can browse network and cloud files
There is no need to connect a phone to a computer via USB nor a reason to keep all files on the device itself.
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FX File Explorer
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5
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SMB where?
Unable to find the option to connect to an SMB server without upgrading to "pro" version. Can it even be done in the free version?
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Plus add-on for network browsing
FX File Explorer has a paid Plus add-on that add more functionality to the app such as network file browsing and a built in text editor. It costs $2.99 and has a 24 hour return policy.
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Dreadful interface
A great example of what happens when a developer puts form before function. Pretty to look at but awkward and unintuitive to use.
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Material Design
FX File Explorer utilizes the Material Design guidelines set forth by Google.
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New Material Design look is not that great
FX File Explorer use to have a better design to it before the Material Design overhaul.
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PRO SMB2 support
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Supports many compression and uncompression file formats
FX File Explorer features numerous compression file formats such as .zip or .tar as well as a .rar decompression tool.
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Root add-on
There is a free root user add-on that allows root file editing and viewing.
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Root Explorer
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UI feels dated
The UI of Root Explorer is not much to look at and feels a bit dated.
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Root file access and editing
As the name would suggest root file access and editing is something Root File Explorer excels at. It was one of the first to have this function and is still one of the best.
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SMB/CIFS network share support
Root Explorer supports SMB/CIFS network sharing.
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24 hour refund policy
The Root Explorer devs have a 24 hour refund policy despite Google's 2 hour policy. All one needs to do is e-mail the devs within that 24 hour period to ask for a refund.
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Android Assistant
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App backup and restore
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App 2 SD
Get more free internal phone storage space
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Batch Install Uninstall
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System Clean
Cache, Thumbnail Cache, Temporary File, Log File, Empty Folder, Empty File, Browser History, Clipboard, Market History, Gmail History, Google Earth History, Google Map History
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Small Size
But so many tools
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Sliding Explorer
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Material Design
Sliding Explorer is designed following Google's Material Design guidelines.
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Has trouble reading external SD cards
Sliding Explorer has users reporting that there is trouble with it reading external SD cards.
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Root access
Sliding Explorer has root access support for editing root files on a device.
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ZIP support
Sliding Explorer features ZIP file support for compressing and extracting .zip files.
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Contain ads
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Open Source
The project is open sourced under Apache License 2.0
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Paid only on Play Store
Although it is open source, if you want to get the latest build of the application you need to pay ~$2.0 for it.
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Optimised for phones, tablets, Android TV and Chromebooks
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Slow
It doesn't cache. Very slow to open big data (video/picture).
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Has RTL support
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Shows folder sizes
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Small
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File Explorer
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Completely free and zero advertisements
There is zero cost to using this app as well as zero advertisements in the app itself.
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Can not select multiple files at the same time
There is no multi-select file support in the app, which means no batch copy, paste or deletions.
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Open Source
File Explorer is filed under the GPL v3 license.
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Solid Explorer
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Easy to use
With the amount of functions as well as the two pane browsing, Solid Explorer is very easy to use.
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Costs money
There is a 14 day free trial, but for those that would like to use the app longer, it will cost money to unlock.
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Two panel browsing
Solid Explorer allows for two separate panels to be browsed simultaneously, allowing for easy copy past functions as well as drag and drop.
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Slow SMB connections
Connecting to a Samba server can take 30 seconds or longer.
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Beautiful material design
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No native Office document viewer or video player
There is no native document viewer, except for the plain text editor (SE Text Editor), nor is there a native video player, with the exception of a video casting app (SE Video Cast). The video casting app appears to require a Chromecast device.
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Connects to cloud services
Add Google Drive, One Drive, Dropbox, and more, all natively through extensions.
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Ability to read and extract ZIP, 7ZIP, RAR and TAR archives, even encrypted
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Rich customization options: icons sets, colour schemes, themes
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A perfect implementation of Material Design
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Multi-Platform Versatility
Solid Explorer has efficient, productive, and fluid interfaces customized for each users' specific platforms. Versatile, intuitive, and productive on small mobile screens, and capitalizes on larger mobiles (tablets), increasing functionality with added screen real estate.
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Cloud file manager: Dropbox, Box, OneDrive, Google Drive, Sugarsync, Copy, Mediafire, Owncloud, Yandex
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Ability to create password protected ZIP and 7ZIP archives
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FTP, SFTP, WebDav, SMB/CIFS clients
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Root access makes Solid Explorer a fully functional root explorer
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Detailed file information with storage usage statistics
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Native picture viewer (SE Image) and music player (SE Music Player)
Allows quick opening of images and audio files to preview without opening another app.
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Useful tools: hiding unwanted folders, FTP Server (plugin), bookmarks, Chromecast support, media browser
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Batch rename: change names of multiple files at once using regular expressions and variables
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Indexed search finds your files in a couple of seconds
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Protect individual files &/or folders with a password
If your device has a fingerprint sensor you can use it to open encrypted files without a need to provide the password. The same applies for cloud storages, which can now be accessed with the fingerprint as well.
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Extensibility: more features in separate plugins available in Google Play
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Total Commander
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Plugins
Supports plugins for compression, file system, and file types.
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Cannot display background colors for file names
While it can display different colors (even based on filters) for the text color of those file names, but not for the background color.
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Can replace a lot of utility tools
There are a lot of built-in utility tools and plug-ins. There's multi-file renamer, verify file checksum to ensure download content integrity, sync directory tool, etc.
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Very slow on loading network shares
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Life-time license
Once purchased you can use it as long as you like and never have to pay again.
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Proprietary
Total Commander offers a free 30-day trial, after which the cost of the program is $44.
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Layout increases productivity
The dual-pane layout makes normal file operations (like move & copy) easy.
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Classic Interface
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Useful multiple advanced options
Show hidden files, show differences between directories, FTP connections, coding and decoding (MIME, l).
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Need to spend a lot of time for custom configuration
Need to spend a lot of time for custom configuration, many features of the steps are very cumbersome to reduce operating speed.
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Very customizable
Total Commander is extremely flexible, with plenty of customizable options such as changing the color scheme, customizing menus, and editing shortcuts.
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Works even when Windows is very unstable
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Productive
Even if you have not learned the keys from DOS NortonCommander, learning them now will make you more productive when dealing with files.
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Powerful file search
The file search has many features, like using regular expressions to find the file names or even inside the content of the files. It can filter by file size, date and others, or even find duplicate files.
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Compare files and show differences
Can compare and show text file differences (diff) line-by-line, even character-by-character. Very useful for programmers. Can compare binary files, telling if files have the same content or not.
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Batch-rename files and folders
Sometimes you want to rename a bunch of files for some reason. Eg: file1-useless info blah blah.mp8 file2-useless info blah blah.mp8 file3-useless info blah blah.mp8 file4-useless info blah blah.mp8 file5-useless info blah blah.mp8 At once you can remove the "-useless info blah blah" in all file names. Or you could change the "file" to "my_super_file" to all at once. The possibilities are endless.
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Saves time
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Cloud plugin
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Customizable tabs
Allows renaming tabs and setting maximum tab text length, which is very convenient. You can also lock tabs in two modes: a) change dir not allowed and b) change dir allowed (but it would return to the original path once you browse another tab). It doesn't allow assigning different colors to each tab, though.
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On copy/move it can both avoid overwrite the destination file AND losing the copied file at the same time
Sometimes you need to copy/move a bunch of files to a folder that already has files. During the copy when Total Commander encounter files in the destination folder that has the same name of the copied files, it allows you to choose auto-rename the copied files or the destination files. It's beautiful.
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Convenient
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Free
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Easy for language translation
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Forget about the mouse
The total commander is convenient to use both with the mouse and exclusively using the keyboard. But using only the keyboard gives it a big increase in the speed of work because you do not aim at your mouse. You need some time to get used to it, but it's really worth it.
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A Photo Manager
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Incremental photo backup to zipfile
i.e. all photos that where added/modified since last backup can be added to a zip file on an attached usbstick
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It is not available on the Google Play Store
You have to download it via f-droid.org store.
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Support for virtual albums
... that are independant of locaton in the physical-filesystem.
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Only support for local photos
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Powerful geotagging/openstreetmap integration
A map shows where photos where taken. if you zoom in you see more details. Geotagging: select one or more photos + "set geo" + pick a point in the map ==> the selected images get that point. Filter images through the map: after selecting an area in the map (i.e. North Germany), the gallery will only show images from North Germany.
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It is free
Open-source, no ads, no user tracking.
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Can handle big image collections
15000+ images in 1000+ folders.
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Find photos by tags (aka keywords)
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Build in Vault mode
If enabled only selected/filtered Images can be seen. This allows you to savley hand over your android phone to someone else and allow him/her to view only those images in Gallery-View, Geographic-Map and Image-View that you have chosen before.
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Exif-Tag support (Edit and Find)
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Quick hirarchical folder navigation
Only folders that contain pictures are shown.
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Compatible devices:
Smartphone or Tablet
Android version:
4.0 or newer
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ES File Explorer
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Supports SMB
ES File Explorer supports a local Samba connection to browse files on other area connected devices.
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Network delete unreliable
Deleting files from network shares is not always reliable, especially when the file is first in the directory list.
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Built-in ZIP and RAR support
ES File Explorer supports the .zip and .rar compression formats.
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Click fraud
Removed from Play store after being caught engaged in click fraud.
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Browse FTP
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Ugly
Interface is kind of crappy.
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Builtin audio player
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Connects to an IP in China
For some reason ES File Explorer installs a folder called Baidu of which any app that installs this folder connects to an IP in China for some reason. Sadly it is still not known at this time for what or why.
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Cleaner
Cleaning cache, temp, junk files.
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Smart charger is enabled by default
It is annoying, after installing the app, suddenly you see your phone has changed.
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Image viewer
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News feature is enabled by default
Also it is not related to file browser.
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Inbuilt video player
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ES Swipe is enabled by default
It is disturbing.
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Root explorer
Explore root files if the phone is rooted.
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You have to install another app to add plugin/feature
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SFTP client
Access SFTP network shares.
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Constant notifications
It is always running in the background and monitoring for possible issues. It always pops up with notifications about new files and suggested files for deletion. There is no way to turn it off.
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Encrypt files
Encrypt private or sensitive files and folders, set password.
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Bought by another company and bundled with adware
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Can set custom ftp server folder location
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Loads at start up and constantly runs in background
Takes up resources by always running. Performs monitoring you cannot turn off.
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Builtin text editor with code highlight
Can set text encoding, find and replace, text highlighting for various programming and scripting language.
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Changes features often
Features are changed very frequently, with most of the additions/changes being unnecessary.
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Install plugins
For additional features.
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Adds possible malware
This issue appears after the update of Aug, 1, 2016 ver 4.1.2.4.
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Share, send and receive files via WiFi
Like shareit.
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Closed source (proprietary)
The source code for ES File Explorer is closed source.
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Create FTP server
Browse files from PC or mobile.
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Slow
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Mediafire
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Broken
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Box Cloud Integration
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Sugar Sync
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Amazon S3
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GoogleDrive file browse
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OneDrive file browse
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Dropbox file browse
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Recycle bin
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Download manager
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Space analyzer
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Integrates with a wide variety of services
The app supports Dropbox, Box.net, Sugarsync, Google Drive, SkyDrive, Amazon S3, Yandex and more.
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MK Explorer (File manager)
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Root file access and editing
MK Explorer (File manager) offers root access to root users so they can edit root files.
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NO USB OTG support
MK Explorer (File manager) is unable to access files on external USB devices through OTG.
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UI designed for phones and tablets
The UI for MK Explorer has a useful layout for phones as well as tablets.
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Material Design
MK Explorer (File manager) uses Material Design for its user interface.
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File Expert
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More like a professional file manager
Concise UI and advanced features such as cloud sync that makes it more like a professional file manager.
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Multiple tabs file management
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Material design based UI interface
Very easy to learn and use.
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Support cloud sync
Sync files between cloud and local.
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Wireless printing
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Supports private cloud
You can build your own private cloud center in your home or office computer and access it anytime & anywhere, support Windows, MacOS X and Linux operating system.
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zip / unzip, zip, rar, 7z, tar, APK, jar and more are coming (compress / decompress)
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