Files by Google

9.06M reviews
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Rated for 3+
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Rated for 3+
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About this app

✨ Free up space on your device with cleaning recommendations
🔍 Find files faster with search and simple browsing
↔️ Quickly share files 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 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 you downloaded recently. Sort files by size to understand what’s taking up space.

Fast & 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 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 like 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.
Clean up your phone, find files, play media, and share files offline
Updated on
Sep 18, 2026

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

8.79M reviews
Kitty Killer
September 9, 2026
can you add a symbol in files that were uploaded to drive because it's hard to check again and again which ones are on the cloud and can be cleaned off the device... another problem is that sometimes while transferring files to the ( safe folder ) and other external drives if they are not transferred completely or get stuck or app fails then those files get corrupted totally which is not what any of us want... Sometimes the app is slow too so make it faster
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Google LLC
September 10, 2026
Hi Kitty. Please provide more information about the issue such as steps to replicate, screenshot of the error etc through this form g.co/help/filesbygoogle for us to investigate further. Appreciate your patience!
Asjad Shaikh
September 12, 2026
Very frustrating and difficult to use. I was trying to upload my college assignment, but I faced so many problems during the process. It took me 47 minutes just to upload one assignment, which is completely unacceptable. The interface is far too complex, confusing, and difficult to understand. A simple task like uploading a file should not take this much time or effort. The overall experience was extremely frustrating and disappointing.
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Google LLC
September 12, 2026
Hi Asjad. We are sorry to hear about your experience. We're always looking for ways to make the app more useful and your feedback is super helpful. Appreciate your patience!
EDWARD MM
August 3, 2026
there's some problems with transferring files from internal storage to external storage. either the file gets stuck in the middle while transferring or fails to transfer at the end. sometimes it can successfully transfer but the file becomes corrupted, unable to read. there was no such issue in the previous versions. It is happening only with the recent updated version. kindly fix the bug.
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What’s new

- UI enhancements for better user experience
- Bug fixes