Best File Managers for Android
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What are File Managers for Android?
File managers, also known as file browsers or file explorers, are software applications that enable a user to browse, search, organize, and manage the files and folders on their computer or device. Compare and read user reviews of the best File Managers for Android currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Total Commander
Ghisler Software
Total Commander, version 10.52, is a shareware file manager for Windows® 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10/11, and Windows® 3.1. Two file windows side by side. Multiple language and Unicode support. Enhanced search function. Compare files (now with editor) / synchronize directories. Quick View panel with image and video display. ZIP, 7ZIP, ARJ, LZH, RAR, UC2, TAR, GZ, CAB, ACE archive handling + plugins. Built-in FTP client with FTPS (encrypted FTP) and HTTP proxy support. Multi-rename tool. Tabbed interface, regular expressions, history+favorites buttons. Thumbnails view custom columns. Compare editor, cursor in lister, separate trees, logging, enhanced overwrite dialog, etc. Unicode names almost everywhere, long names (>259 characters), a password manager for FTP and plugins, synchronize empty dirs, 64-bit context menu, quick file filter (Ctrl+S). USB port connection via special direct transfer cable, partial branch view (Ctrl+Shift+B), and many improvements to FTP synchronizing.Starting Price: Free -
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Files by Google
Google
A faster way to free up space, find files and share them. Files by Google is a file management app that helps you free up space with cleanup recommendations. Find files faster with simple navigation and search. Share files offline with others, fast and without using data. Back up data to save space on your device free up more space. Free up space faster and easier than ever: Delete photos, memes, duplicate files, apps you don't use, clear cache, etc. Use Files to see how much space is left on your phone and SD card. Easily transfer files from the app to an SD card and free up space. Use the built-in file cleaner to free up more space. You always know what you are deleting, we do not hide conditions or complicated phrases. Select only what you want to remove and keep the rest. They are your files, you are in charge. Use Files to have enough memory to keep your phone running smoothly. Use Bluetooth to establish a fast, encrypted and direct Wi-Fi connection.Starting Price: Free -
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Owlfiles
Skyjos
Owlfiles is a powerful file management app on mobile platforms and desktop platforms. It can access not only files on your macOS, but also files on your server, NAS, and cloud. Stream movies and music on your Mac. Directly view and manage documents, and photos on your server, NAS, and cloud without downloading. Access network shares on PC, and NAS via SMB/CIFS protocol. Access network shares on PC, and NAS via SMB/CIFS protocol. Automatically discover servers and NAS when you set up a new connection. Stream movies and music from server/NAS/cloud to your Mac. Create unlimited connections with your computers, NAS, and cloud storage. Sync connections to all your devices. Sync files between macOS and server/NAS/cloud storage. Use Owlfiles on your mobile and desktop platforms. Built-in FTP Server for file transfer. Directly transfer files between Mac and mobile devices. Transfer files by drag and drop.Starting Price: Free -
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TagSpaces
TagSpaces UG
TagSpaces is privacy aware, cross-platform file browser with note-taking capabilities. It helps you organize your files and folders with tags and colors. Free downloads are available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android. With the built-in advanced markdown editor, you can create notes that can include tables, todo-lists, math formulas, or diagrams. TagSpaces can connect to any folder on your hard drive and provide a convenient way to browse its content. You have the ability to add labels called tags to any file or folder. Using tags along the folder hierarchy allows you to have cross-references in the folders. The built-in search allows you to find files with any combination of tags. On top of that in the Pro version, you can add descriptions and geo-tags to files and folders. The Pro version gives you the ability to turn every folder to a Kanban board, which can be useful in many ways. With the TagSpaces Web Clipper, you can collect web pages and bookmarks from the Web.Starting Price: $39 per year -
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Amerigo File Manager
IdeaSolutions
Amerigo is an enhanced file manager that allows you to manage and organize local and cloud-saved files. It's the only app that allows the link of multiple clouds (DropBox, Google Drive, OneDrive, iCloud Files) and offers iOS files app integration to download and upload to any cloud from any app! For example, if you receive an email, you can directly save the email attachments to one of the clouds linked in Amerigo, by simply choosing "Save in files" in the action sheet. Virtual folders allow a group of files that come from different sources (cloud/local): you can for example have a virtual folder with all the files that belong to a project but are stored on different cloud storage providers. The spotlight indexing of all local contents allows you to immediately find and open the file you're looking for, without opening the app! You can also add more than one account for each cloud to increase your space!Starting Price: Free -
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X-plore File Manager
Lonely Cat Games
This is a dual-pane explorer, there are two folders shown at same time, and common operation such as copying files are done from one pane to another. And X-plore shows folder hierarchy in a tree view for clear orientation and fast switching to other location. You may explore internals of the device, and if you're power user and have your device rooted, you can make changes to system data - backup files, remove unwanted applications, etc. If you're standard user, you may choose to hide internal memory from view and be sure not to mess with system. You can comfortably see contents of mass memories on your device, or possibly attached USB memory stick.Starting Price: Free -
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File Manager Plus
AlphaInventor
File Manager Plus is a full-featured file manager app for Android. File Manager Plus features all of the basic file management features including copy, cut, paste, delete, rename, compress, decompress, transfer, download, and bookmark. It lets you explore files not only on your devices but also across your network including FTP, SMB, and cloud-based storage. It supports various media files and major file formats including .apk. File Manager Plus has a user-friendly and instinctive user interface, so it is easy to use even if you are a beginner. You can quickly find the files that you are looking for and easily manage them. What’s more, you can find how many files & apps you have on your device at a glance immediately after opening File manager Plus. Your files and folders are automatically sorted by their file types and characteristics so that you can easily find the file you are looking for.Starting Price: Free -
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Amaze File Manager
Team Amaze
We're a team of devs working on improving file management space for your Android devices, also dealing with your privacy concerns at the same time. Analyze internal storage for junk files, duplicate files, large videos / old downloads/screenshots or recordings. Transfer files directly between two mobile devices on the same wifi network using a high-speed peer-to-peer network. Gesture support in image/video player, play in the background, picture in picture mode, download subtitles within the player. Cool primary / secondary colors to choose from, with support for app-wide light / dark/black themes. AES standard file encryption with password/fingerprint protection. Support root operations for rooted devices with inbuilt database SQLite viewer.Starting Price: Free -
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Solid Explorer
NeatBytes
Solid Explorer lets you navigate to files stored on your device and automatically organizes them into collections. You can view, delete, move, rename or share any files. It also allows you to quickly find the files you need through indexed search with filters. Solid Explorer can protect selected files with strong AES encryption and put them in a secure folder, which contents are unreadable for other apps. The file manager will ask for password or fingerprint confirmation when you browse the folder. Even if you uninstall Solid Explorer, the files stay on your device and are still protected. Although this file manager doesn’t feature a dedicated storage analyzer, you can find out which files take up most of space by going to folder properties of internal storage or SD card. You will find the information about the percentage of space each folder takes and the list of biggest files. You can also use search with a file size filter.Starting Price: Free -
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File Manager - XFolder
InShot
File Manager - XFolder, a powerful & easy-to-use file manager & file explorer with desktop-grade features, helps you handle ALL your files efficiently. With File Manager - XFolder, you can easily manage files on a local device & SD card, free up space to boost phone performance. Besides, you can also quickly find files by browsing, know memory usage like apps & files at a glance. With all the basics you'd expect and some outstanding extras — all packed into a nicely designed and easy-to-use interface. File Manager - XFolder is a handy file explorer and storage browser that helps you find and manage what you’re looking for fast. Find powerless to manage tons of files on your mobile device? Try File Manager - XFolder, see and manage all files, apps, videos and photos downloaded on your local device. Search and erase unused items to free up more space with this file explorer tool.Starting Price: Free -
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Material Files
Hai Zhang
There are already a handful of powerful file managers, but most of them just isn't Material Design. And even among the ones with Material Design, they usually have various minor design flaws (layout, alignment, padding, icon, font, etc) across the app which makes me uncomfortable, while still being minor enough so that not everybody would care to fix it. So I had to create my own. Most of the popular and reliable file managers are just closed source, and I sometimes use them to view and modify files that require root access. But deep down inside, I just feel uneasy with giving any closed-source app the root access to my device. After all, that means giving literally full access to my device, which stays with me every day and stores my own information, and what apps do with such access merely depends on their good intent.Starting Price: Free -
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ASTRO File Manager & Cleaner
data.ai Basics
ASTRO File Manager & Cleaner is the all-in-one app to organize, move, and back up your files easily and clean up your android phone’s memory. It has a user-friendly interface for easy navigation and simple folder management of your internal, external, and cloud storages. ASTRO is being used by 150M+ users worldwide since 2009. ASTRO Organizer is free to use and has no advertising! Move, copy, share, rename, files on internal storage, SD card, and cloud space with its file explorer. Sort and categorize files: Have fast access to all of your files on internal and external memory space. Manage your folders effectively with this android file organizer and browser! Easily explore all your images, tools, videos, music, apps, and recent folders from the home screen. Backup important photos and files with this data manager: securely move, copy and backup files to SD cards or any safe cloud space and clean your storage space.Starting Price: Free -
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Cx File Explorer
Cx File Explorer
With this file manager app, you can quickly browse and manage the files on your mobile device, PC, and cloud storage, just like you use Windows Explorer or Finder on your PC or Mac. Also it provides a rich set of features that advanced users are looking for without feeling bloated. You can even manage the space used on your mobile device with a visualized storage analysis. With a user-friendly UI, you can easily browse, move, copy, compress, rename, extract, delete, create and share files (folders) on both internal and external storage of your mobile device. Cx File Explorer provides visualized storage analysis so that you can quickly scan the available space and manage it. The Recycle bin also helps you easily manage your storage.Starting Price: Free -
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MK Explorer
kormateusz
MK Explorer is another simple file manager that provides material design, two windows (panels) to view files, shortcuts on the desktop directly from the main application, keyboard shortcuts, thumbnails of images, videos and APK files, extracting zip and RAR archives, built-in gallery, built-in text editor, and built-in music player.Starting Price: Free -
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RS File Manager
RS Mobile Group
Free, safe, simple, manage your files efficiently and easily with RS File Manager. RS File Manager - RS File Explorer is an easy and powerful file explorer for Android devices. It's free, fast, and full-featured. Manage your files like you do on your desktop or laptop using Multiple Select, Cut, Copy, Paste, Move, Create, Delete, Rename, Search, Share, Send, Hide, zip, unzip, and Bookmark etc. With RS File Manager - RS File Explorer, you can easily manage your files and folders on your device and cloud storage. Also, you can find how many files and apps you have on your device immediately after opening RS File Manager. With RS File Manager - RS File Explorer, you have 100% control over your file system and everything can be found easily organized.Starting Price: Free -
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Splend File Manager
Splend Apps
Smart and free file manager for Android with the perfect set of features. It provides quick and convenient access to your pictures, music, videos, documents, and other files. You'll find that all operations on files become easy and more intuitive. Our file manager is powerful in its simplicity and convenience of use. Properties view with additional information: permissions, size, and last modified date. Built-in zip support allows you to compress and decompress files and archives. You can share files with other apps, add attachments to e-mails, upload images to social networks, etc. Root Explorer - provides access to the entire file system and all directories on rooted devices.Starting Price: Free -
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MiXplorer Silver
Hootan Parsa
MiXplorer (SD, FTP, Lan, Cloud and other storage explorers) is a fast, smooth, beautiful, reliable and full-featured Android file manager with a simple and intuitive user interface. This app has no ads, is and will always remain free. It supports Android 2.0+ (Eclair) I hope you enjoy it. Easily themable with customization option which lets you select any color you like. Unlimited Tabbed browsing and Dual panel in landscape mode and Drag and Drop between panels also supported. Export/Import all preferences and bookmarks and customized skins. File encryption and decryption using Aescrypt file format. User and System app management with data backup ability for rooted devices.Starting Price: $5.91 one-time payment -
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Simple File Manager Pro
Simple Mobile Tools
Simple File Manager is a super quick & professional file and folder manager for Android devices. Use Simple File Manager to easily compress, transfer & convert media files with a few clicks. It has all of the major file manager & folder management features, including customizing the home folder and selecting favorite folders for quick access. The file manager provides the whole pack of file manager features, including search, navigation, copy & paste, cut, delete, rename, decompress, transfer, download, organize & so on. Add, remove, or edit files, folders & apps according to your personal preferences. With this easy data organizer, you can organize and sort your mobile by various metrics and toggle between ascending and descending or using folder-specific sorting. To get a file or folder path quickly, you can easily select it by long-pressing and copying it in the clipboard.Starting Price: $0.67 one-time payment -
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Root Explorer
Speed Software
Root Explorer is the ultimate file manager for root users. Access the whole of android's file system (including the elusive data folder!). Features include multiple tabs, Google Drive, Box, Dropbox and network (SMB) support, SQLite database viewer, Text Editor, create and extract zip or tar/gzip files, extract rar archives, multi-select, execute scripts, search, remount, permissions, bookmarks, send files (via email, bluetooth etc), image thumbnails, APK binary XML viewer, change file owner/group, create symbolic link, "Open With" facility, MD5, create shortcuts. We will always try to help with any problem you may have with the app. If we can't help then you can have a refund, no questions asked. Used by the Google Drive SDK to add a new account if desired. No changes are made to existing accounts and no details accessed apart from the account name.Starting Price: $4.35 one-time payment -
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Computer File Explorer
Byte Mobile
Computer is a free, full-featured file explorer, designed to support multiple tabs and windows opened side-by-side. It provides access to pictures, music, video, documents, and other files on both your Android devices and your computers. File explorer: manage your documents like you do on your desktop or laptop. Switching to other programs, uninstall or view any app's system management page. Launched applications are also in the taskbar. Built-in media viewer and player for various media formats, including photos, music, and videos. Supports tabs and side-by-side windows, so you can open multiple folders at the same time.Starting Price: Free -
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Digital File Manager
Enlighten.Net
Resourceful companies constantly look for ways to reduce operational costs. Businesses waste time, money, and resources storing and moving paperwork. Paper documents are hard to share, costly to file, take up a lot of storage space, and are difficult to retrieve. Switching to web-based ENet Docs improves efficiency in daily operations, increases profit margins, and allows secure remote access to your critical documents. With ENet Docs you can quickly find the documents you need no matter where you are located. Implement more efficient processes, improve control of business documents, automate workflows and eliminate the reliance on paper records with ENet Docs. All documents, no matter how they are received are automatically indexed, converted to a fully searchable PDF and routed to their correct destination. With ENet Docs, there is no labor to name, move, or link documents of any type. -
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FX File Explorer
NextApp
FX File Explorer features a Material Design UI and new ways to transfer your files between devices and computers. "Usage View" mode shows the total size and content makeup of every folder, as you browse and manage files. Manage installed applications, with support for browsing applications based on their required permissions. Access networked computers, including FTP, SSH FTP, WebDAV, and Windows Networking (SMB1 and SMB2).
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