Files by Google

4.5
8.47M reviews
5B+
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Free up space on your device with cleaning recommendations
🔍 Find files faster with search and simple browsing
↔️ Share files quickly offline with Quick Share
☁️ Back up files to the cloud to save space on your device
🔒 Secure your files with a non-device lock

Free up space
Easily see how much space is left on your device, SD card and USB drive. Free up space by finding old photos from chat apps, duplicate files, clearing your cache and more.

Find files faster
Save time looking for photos, videos and documents on your phone. Search quickly or browse your GIFs, or share that video that you downloaded recently. Sort files by size to understand what's taking up space.

Fast and secure file sharing
Share photos, videos, apps and more to Android and Chromebook devices around you with Quick Share. Files transfer quickly, with speeds up to 480 Mbps, even without an Internet connection. Transfers are private and are secured with end-to-end encryption.

Secure your files
Keep your sensitive files safe with a PIN or pattern that can be different from your device lock.

Play offline media
Listen to your music or watch your videos with advanced controls, such as playback speed, shuffle and more.

Back up files
Move your files to Google Drive or an SD card to save space on your device. You can also share to other cloud-storage apps on your device.

Get smart recommendations
Get helpful suggestions to save space, protect your device and more. Your recommendations get smarter the more you use the app.

It's efficient and effective
The Files by Google app uses less than 20 MB of storage on your device, it's easy to use and has no ads.
Updated on
5 Aug 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
This app may collect these data types
Personal info, App activity and 2 others
Data is encrypted in transit
Data can’t be deleted
Independent security review

Ratings and reviews

4.5
8.22M reviews
Cindy Grimes
21 April 2025
Give back the Rotate button, so we can rotate our upside down or slanted photos, Google. Why does Photos app do everything but that one function? And receivers of the bad photo can't change it either. What is the point of this? Some kind of twisted pleasure in this, for you or somebody else? Great! So glad, we could help. Have a lovely day. Which you don't,need, because you did this. Then I wish it for the rest of us, to get over this, and the other indignities individuals or this government doe
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Nathaniel Dielen
14 July 2025
Files will crash every time I want to send something via text or email. Literally have to open up the files app and then click share. Can't click the 📎 in the text app or in the email app. I disabled the app and cleared the cache on both personal profile and work profile. Could be something with permissions? New phone. Was working before the update. It was working before I added my work profile. Maybe it has something to do with the Microsoft Intune app. Hopefully that helps.
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Google LLC
14 July 2025
Hi Nathaniel. We are sorry to hear about your experience. Please send us in app feedback by following these steps: Open Files by Google app - On the top left, tap on the three-line menu - Tap on Help & Feedback - Tap on Send Feedback - Please select System logs at the bottom, for us to investigate further. Appreciate your patience!
Positively_ TK
29 July 2025
This is terrible. The way that I was able to use the magic eraser to edit my photos was great. Now it's just horrible. There is no need for you guys to make it blur while it's erasing as if it's creating something magical and then doesn't even erase as I had wanted it to. Instead it adds to what I'm telling it to erase. Please fix this and know that the way that you had it before was better.
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What's new

- You can now use Quick Share directly from the home page to send or receive files. Currently rolling out.
- Bug fixes and other improvements.