Solid Explorer File Manager

NeatBytes

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About this app

Solid Explorer is a file management app inspired by the old school file commander applications. It will help you:
🗄️ Easily manage files in dual pane layout
🔐 Protect files with strong encryption
🖥️ Manage files on your cloud storage or NAS
☁️ Backup apps and files to any desired destination


Explore your device
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.


Keep your files safe
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.


Analyze Storage
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.


Organize remote files
Solid Explorer supports major network protocols and cloud providers to let you organize multiple remote file locations in one place. You can easily transfer files between cloud locations/servers just by dragging them from one panel to another.


Major feature list:

• Files management - main storage, SD card, USB OTG
• Cloud storage - easily connect and manage files on Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Box, Owncloud, SugarSync, MediaFire, Yandex, Mega*
• NAS - support for major network protocols FTP, SFTP, SMB (Samba), WebDav
• File encryption - password and fingerprint protection
• Archives - support for ZIP, 7ZIP, RAR and TAR files
• Root explorer - browse system files if your device is rooted
• Indexed search - quickly find files on your device
• Analyze storage - manage files taking too much space on your device
• Organized collections - files categorized in Downloads, Recent,Photos, Videos, Music, Documents and Apps
• Internal image viewer, music player and text editor - for easier browsing on remote storages
• Batch rename - with support for naming patterns
• FTP Server - for accessing your local files from PC
• Themes and icon sets - rich customization options

Solid Explorer will also manage files on your Chromebook with support for mouse and keyboard input.

Useful links:
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/NeatBytes/
Translation: http://neatbytes.oneskyapp.com

* with paid add-on

Ratings and reviews

This is the best file manager I've ever seen, great interface, great features and fast. I do have some feature suggestions to improve it even further: ability to fingerprint unlock zip files, ability to decrypt encrypted files on a Windows/Mac Machine, SMB server as an alternative to FTP to share files and an integrated media viewer for photos, videos, audio and PDFs, where you could swipe left or right for the next/previous file and with quick shortcuts to delete, move or rename it.

Really like this app. Couple of issues though: SE seems to have trouble opening .rar archives and fails immediately. I had no problem opening the with a different app so they weren't corrupted; Also, SE frequently doesn't give me the option of opening a file with a weird extension in the text editor. I think it should be available for opening all file types, whether they're actually meant to be or not.

Used to be the best file manager I found for Android. Its functionalities still are amazing. But it keeps running in the background as a media server and I had to set it as a "deep sleeping app" on my Samsung phone to not allow it to run as server in the background. Also, I never set it to work as a server. This is not a good app dev practice. Please fix.

What's new

2.8.46
- SMB client improvements
- fixed improper SFTP file overwrite handling

2.8.45
- fixed Dropbox login
- fixed inability to open encrypted folder in cloud storage

2.8.42/43/44
- SMB client update
- fixed recent bugs in WebDav client

2.8.41
- revert changes in SMB client due to recent problems with connection
- improved temporary files handling