Files by Google

Google LLC

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.

Ratings and reviews

Veeeery good for cleaning up some space in your phone. It shows things that are useless for you like old screenshots, duplicates, blurry photos, long videos and much more.... And it lets you choose what you want/don't want to delete inside those categories. I have a very hard time founding out what I can/cannot delete by myself, so this is much useful for me. Thank you for all the producers of the app for making my life easier!

UPDATE: Did what you said and it worked, I'm happy to now be able to get to all my files. Files currently not working. I can go into it, see the recent folders up top with pictures in them but once I click on them I can't get any of my files at all. It just loads and loads and loads. Very annoying, restarted phone, turned it off and on and nothing, already did the update but still not working.

This used to be a 5 star rating until recently. I really liked this app until recently, its not working properly. I open the app & I can see all the different directories/folders. I can even see the previews at the top of the screen (i.e. 4 pictures in the camera preview (aka "Recents") area. And they are the most recent files in each of those categories. But now, when I click on a category, it doesn't do anything. I just get a spinning circle in the middle of the screen. Please fix this.

What's new

When you scan a document, it’s saved in your device’s Scanned folder.
The 'Documents and other' category is now called 'Documents' to make it easier to find PDF files. Other files, like backup and database files, can be found in 'Downloads' or 'Internal storage'.
Over the next few weeks, we’ll roll out search improvements like recently opened files, quick results and drop-down filters to make finding files even easier.