Primitive FTPd

wolpi

About this app

A simple FTP server. Allows to exchange files with other machines over wifi. No more USB cable searching. Runs without root privileges. Is not started when device boots (but can if you wish). Control yourself when the server runs. While it runs it prevents standby to avoid long uploads and downloads to abort (configurable). Transfers can be encrypted by SFTP.

Ratings and reviews

The only thing this app successfully did was get me frustrated. I like that it's simple, small, and not a bloated POS like most apps are today. Unfortunately, it's also very unintuitive. I installed it, trying to find a more convenient way of transferring files to/from a PC, without hassling with a cable every time. I could never get it to start, because every time it says "you have to set an authentication mechanism." I went through every tab of the app and it was 100% unclear how to do that.

Ad-free, fast. I like the text UI. If you only added a "Log to screen" option to the "Log" settings item for displaying the FTP commands directly on the screen, it would be just perfect. :-) A bit troublesome experience on Android 12 due to the limited file access on these new Androids. I solved it by creating a folder "data_exchange" in the root and set this as a root folder for pFTPd.

There's no way to grant all file access permission. When connecting to the server, it only shows folders but no files... Edit: The F-Droid version doesn't have that issue. Use that instead.

What's new

see: https://github.com/wolpi/prim-ftpd/releases/tag/prim-ftpd-7.0