simplemobiletools / simple-file-manager

Easy app for managing your files without ads, respecting your privacy & security

Simple File Manager

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 a 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.

Simple File Manager makes organizing your mobile files, folders, and apps easy to save you both time & energy. With just a few clicks, you can also check file or folder properties, which shows various fields like the size, date of the last modification, or EXIF values like the creation date, camera model at photos, etc.

This file organizer is absolutely secure, containing multiple powerful security-related functions, like password protecting hidden items, deleting, or the whole app. You can choose between using a pattern, pin, or a fingerprint to keep your data private. The fingerprint permission is needed for locking either hidden item visibility, deleting files, or the whole app. Simple File Manager works without internet access, further guaranteeing your ultimate privacy.

The File Manager can also clean up space and save your internal storage by compressing files & folders. This modern media file organizer supports fast browsing of root files, SD cards, and USB devices. File Manager also recognizes multiple file formats, including music, videos, images & documents.

Use Simple File Manager Pro to create handy desktop shortcuts for accessing your favorite items quickly. It contains a light file editor that you can use to print documents, edit them, or read easily using zoom gestures, whenever needed.

Despite called Simple File Manager, it will help you manage & customize your files, folders & apps with just a few clicks. You can easily see your recent files and do a storage analysis too.

You can use the built in Storage Analysis to have a quick overview about what files are taking up the most space and clean it up. It can function as a storage cleaner that will help empty some space on your device.

Contains no ads or unnecessary permissions. It is fully opensource, provides customizable colors.

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simple-file-manager's Issues

/root/data unavailable

When I try to access to /root/data there are no files in there. But with other fm I can access the folder and see a bunch of files.

Display md5 checksum thats copiable to clipboard

add an option to resolve conflicts at copy and move

options: Overwrite, add suffix, skip

Add Recycle bin

Add a detail window to folders and files

Sharing with Conversations fails

To replicate -

1. Long press a file (a PDF, in my case)
2. Overflow menu
3. Share
   4a. Select one of the suggestions,
   4b. or select Conversations and select a chat
   The application switches as though sharing was successful, but no file is actually sent.

Allow creating Favorite folders, for easier access

tabs

add tabs like in notes app

The app closes while you rename or delete a folder on the SD card

Make switch between internal storage and external SD better discernible

IMHO currently it is not really intuitive to switch between the different storages. Clicking on a (small lettered) text on top the file list is not self explaining, and moreover you really have to aim to hit it right.

One solution would be to make a real button. Another solution, e.g. in combination with the also requested bookmarks-feature, might be a swipe-menu from the left

Animation when changing theme

When enabling/disabling the dark theme, there's an animation that makes the process feel much smoother than most apps. I'd like to see if I can put together some PRs to add that animation to some other apps I use. Relevant code (from settingsActivity.java):

private void restartActivity() {
    TaskStackBuilder.create(getApplicationContext()).addNextIntentWithParentStack(getIntent()).startActivities();
}

Does TaskStackBuilder create the animation, too? I'm relatively new to Android dev and just want to make sure I'm not missing anything.

Thank you!

Please support the open folder intent

Applications like Syncthing require it to open folders.
See also syncthing/syncthing-android#838

App crashed when entring a directory full of gifs!

Wrong string used in RenameItemDialog

When renaming a file or a directory the prompt says "Create new item". The RenameItemDialog uses string "create_new" when creating the dialog, instead of the defined "rename_directory" and "rename_file".

Latest version missing in F-Droid

The latest version in F-Droid is 2.2.2 (Added on Apr 27, 2017) as opposed to the Play Store, which has 2.3.0

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.simplemobiletools.filemanager/
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.simplemobiletools.filemanager&hl=en

Improve de/compressing

• show progress
• handle conflicts at decompressing

Samba (SMB) support in a LAN

It would be great if the app could access (read/write/copy) files in a samba share in a local network.

Still maintaining the minimal set of permissions to be able to do the task.

Accented characters are not allowed in Rename and Create dialogs

More View types

Now we only have list view. I suggest you to add some more view types like:

Columns
Grid
Detailed list

Action bar with common operations

Now to make an option we have to click on 3dot menu to do them.

Maybe you could make an action bar with more common actions like:

Cut
Copy
Move
Delete
Select all/Unselect all

Dialog disappears on device rotation

When I perform this sequence of events, the dialog on screen disappears:

Sequence 1:

1. Click on Add item
2. Orientation change

Sequence 2:

1. Long click on file
2. Click on Edit
3. Orientation change

Sequence 3:

1. Long click on file
2. Open Overflow Menu
3. Click on Delete
4. Orientation change

Sequence 4:

1. Long click on file
2. Open Overflow Menu
3. Click on Copy/Move
4. Orientation change

Sequence 5:

1. Long click on file
2. Open Overflow Menu
3. Click on Copy/Move
4. Click on Select Destination
5. Orientation change

Sequence 6:

1. Long click on file
2. Click on Properties
3. Orientation Change

Quick multiselect

A feature that is missing in every other file manager is the ability to select multiple items in a list without using "select all". For example, select one item, then choose "Select to", and then another item, and all those in between would be selected.

It is useful for situations like, sharing a bunch of photos from a certain date range. You don't want to share all photos in the directory, but there's a lot to manually scroll through and select each one.

Add Search function

7-zip archiver

Hi! Nice app, but is possible to add an ability to create/modify a complete 7-zip (.7z) archivers??

Add sorting by filetype

Make delete confirm dialog more verbose

Hi,

I like the simplicity. But in the case of delete, it would be good, if the confirmation dialog could be more verbose, so that I actually know, what I am going to delete.
This includes:

• If the directory is empty, note that "Do you want to delete an empty directory?"
• If the directory contains something, be even more verbose. This could possibly delete a complete tree with a lot of data.
• When deleting more than one item, at least tell the number of items. I am not actually sure, wether any of the items should be allowed to be a directory with content (previous point).

Add support for more compressing filetypes

I think it would be really nice to support .rar, .7z, .bzip,... filetypes in addition to .zip files (already supported)

Add option to handle .zip (etc) compressed files

Just a improvement suggestion

Ability to modify file/folder permissions/ownership

It would be nice to be able to change file and folder permissions and ownership, using root to do this if necessary.

Can't find this app on F-Droid

Ability to browse external SD

Is it me or we can't explore the SD card?

Action overflow menu and toolbar disappear on device rotation

When I perform this sequence of events the screen changes its state

1. Long click on item in list
2. Click on ... to open Overflow Menu
3. Orientation change

Open and edit .txt files from within the app

Given that they can be created within the app, it would be great being able to open them and edit them.

Or... the Simple Notes app could open .txt files too, but that'd be an issue for another app.

But just plain simple text. I don't think it would be wise to start recognizing different syntaxes like MiXplorer does. Just plain .txt is fine.

add delete/move/copy of selected items as icons to main panel (around properties and rename buttons)

Crash when write or delete file or folder on external SD card

Simple File Manager version: 2.1.0 (but it occurs for months)
Android: 6

I'd wish to add a log here, but catlog can't filter easy.

It seems Simple File Manager uses an old API?

Missing translation strings

I was about to update a translation when I noticed that the is already translated, but the app doesn't use it. Also the "Direct children count" in the app is not available in the strings.

Screen Overlay Detected

Hi, after allow access to media, photos and files the app request "Screen Overlay Detected"
I try to enable this in my Samsung S6 Edge but the app doesn't open :(

Share button?

Hi,

I'd like to be able to share PDF and other kind files. The apps I use may not implement the share functionality that for instance your Simple Gallery does. Do you think it is possible to add the share button to Simple File Manager without adding too much complexity?

Thanks for your apps!

Scrollable View changes position on Device Rotation

When I perform this sequence of events, the scrollable view on screen goes back to the top:

In the main activity:

1. Scroll Down
2. Orientation Change

Better support for SD cards and rooted devices

add /system mount options

It seems that at least in MM ROMs /system is always mounted read only. Thus a root capable file explorer without mount options is slightly handicapped. Could you add easy one click remount options?

Currently I need to do this via terminal (mount -o rw,remount /system ) before editing system files. Quite cumbersome.

Feature request for color theme presets

Color customization is really nice in the latest version, but I think a few built-in theme, first of all the old dark theme would be awsome.
Thanks for considerig this.

Contextual action bar color

On my device (API level 23) its background is black. I think it should have the same color as FAB and status bar.

Apk icon

Please, ad an ability to see the icon of the Apk inside the app!

Access a file through the category section.

A separate section would have different type categories (i.e Music, Videos, apk etc) that would easy for the users to target specific files.

root not working

When switching to root folder, root permission is not asked for and nothing is shown.

copy path

possibility to copy the current path (for example by long pressing it) and the path of selected item in the properties popup

Root filesystem unavailable when root permissions granted.

Thank you for this good app. On my LG-D855 phone with CleanRom 2.5 (based on Marshmallow stock rom), using Magisk, app won't show root folder content when root permissions ( and root enabled in settings) granted.It shows root folder contents without root previlages tough.

Option to share folders/directories

I need to share two folders (with some files inside them).
With both selected and clicking the share icon, I see No files selected

Couldn't we have a way to share folders too? (of course, using some compacted file, like ZIP)

Make fonts larger?

Android 4.2 on an old Galaxy S4.
In system settings, I already have configured font size with "Extra large", but still the font is still tiny. Especially when compared to the stock file browser.