When comparing WAVE calendar vs Amaze File Manager, the Slant community recommends Amaze File Manager for most people. In the question“What are the best Material Design apps?” Amaze File Manager is ranked 1st while WAVE calendar is ranked 28th. The most important reason people chose Amaze File Manager is:
Amaze File Manager is an opensource file manager.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Available in 10 languages
Available in English, Dutch, Spanish, Swedish, Italian, Portuguese, German, Chinese, and Russian.
Pro Integrates with Google Maps for directions
If a location to an event is added, the app will show a map and allow pulling up Google Maps for directions.
Pro Built-in task manager that can integrates with Google Tasks
Wave allows creating local and Google Tasks to-do items that can be synced across devices and color-coded.
Pro Has day and week, month, list and 2 agenda views
The app has day, week, week-agenda, month, month-agenda and list views.
Day, 3-day and week views split up the days horizontally and hours vertically.
Week agenda splits the screen in 6 equal parts - 5 parts for work days, sixth for weekend. Double-tapping a day will open a list of events for that day. From here swiping left and right allows moving between days.
Month view splits the screen in half with one half displaying a typical month view with color-coded dots next to dates to show which days have events and the other a list of events for the selected day.
Month agenda view lays out all days in a grid and displays all event for the day.
The list view is actually the closest to a typical agenda view despite the name. The difference here is that there are two modes of showing that information - default and detailed. The default mode displays date, time, event name and location (if available) and the detailed mode displays extra information such as what calendar is the event part of, who's attending, notes, etc.
Pro Integrates with Wave Scheduler for event planning
Another app on offer from the publisher is WAVE Scheduler, which integrates into WAVE Calendar for easy event planning.
Pro Color-coding for events and calendars
The app will color-code different calendars in different colors as well as allow selecting a different color for each event.
Pro Includes a store for purchasing various public calendars
The app has a store for sports, stock exchange, holiday, religion and other calendars.
Pro Open source
Amaze File Manager is an opensource file manager.
Pro Material Design and fast operation
Amaze File Manager follows the Material Design guidelines as well as operates very fast.
Pro 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.
Pro Light and dark themes
Pro 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.
Pro 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".
Pro Built-in root explorer
If your Android device is rooted, you can use this app to access system files.
Pro Great customer support
Support is available 24/7. Your emails will be answered within 24 hours.
Cons
Con Some basic features require signing up
Paid features include the ability to add attachments and travel time to events and see local weather in calendar.
Con Inconsistent design
There's different branding in different places (Still has e-cal branding in some places). Sometimes looking at an event requires tapping twice while most of the time it's once, a horizontal list of items looks differently based on the views it's accessed through, etc.
Con No natural language input support
Con Slow
Con SMB and SFTP fails
Failed to connect to server using either SMB or SFTP.
Con 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.
Con No networking tools
Sadly there are no networking tools built into Amaze File Manager.
