When comparing MK Explorer (File manager) vs MiXplorer, the Slant community recommends MiXplorer for most people. In the question“What are the best file explorers on Android?” MiXplorer is ranked 4th while MK Explorer (File manager) is ranked 23rd.
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Pros
Pro Root file access and editing
MK Explorer (File manager) offers root access to root users so they can edit root files.
Pro UI designed for phones and tablets
The UI for MK Explorer has a useful layout for phones as well as tablets.
Pro Material Design
MK Explorer (File manager) uses Material Design for its user interface.
Pro Unlimited tabbed browsing and dual panel in landscape mode and drag and drop between panels also supported
Pro SAMBA, FTP, SFTP, WEBDAV, BLUETOOTH support
Pro Can do tasks in background
Things like pasting/moving files can be done in background.
Pro 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.
Pro Queue Tasks
Can Queue every task, copy, paste, move, delete , rename etc.
Pro Root access for all advanced operations
Pro Theming support
Download and apply a theme or easily create you own.
Pro Active forum support
Lots of guys giving pointers on the xda.
Pro Available for Android TV
Pro 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.
Pro FTP/HTTP server built in
Share files trough the browser.
Pro Tasker
Automate tasks.
Pro 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, ...).
Cons
Con NO USB OTG support
MK Explorer (File manager) is unable to access files on external USB devices through OTG.
Con 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.
Con Image browsing
Image browsing has bugs.
Con Search
Search doesn't work in landscape mode.