ApfsForge: APFS Read & Write

ByteHaven Studios

In-app purchases

About this app

Your Mac drive, on your phone.

Plug in a USB stick, an external SSD or a hard drive your Mac formatted, and it shows up in the Files app you already use. Watch a movie from your Mac backup drive, pull photos off a stick from the office iMac, grab a document a friend saved on their MacBook. No root, no ads, no account, no subscription.

WORKS WITH THE DRIVES YOU ALREADY OWN
• APFS: the format of every Mac today, which Android can't open on its own
• Mac OS Extended (HFS+), the format of older Macs and many external drives
• exFAT and FAT32: USB sticks, SD cards and cameras
• Flash drives, external SSDs and hard drives, and SD cards in a USB reader

NO NEW APP TO LEARN
ApfsForge adds the drive to Android itself. Your gallery, video player, PDF reader, office apps and file managers can all open files straight from the drive, with nothing to copy first.

FREE
• Browse, search and open everything on the drive
• Copy files and folders to your phone
• Full writing on exFAT and FAT drives: add, edit, rename, move and delete
• Reformat a drive as exFAT, so it works on phones, Windows and Mac alike
• Eject the drive cleanly before you unplug it

PRO: PAY ONCE, KEEP IT
Android phones can't write to Mac drives. Pro can:
• Save, edit, rename, move and delete files and folders on APFS and HFS+ drives
• Format a drive as APFS or HFS+, ready for a Mac
One purchase covers every drive you connect. No subscription, ever.

BUILT WITH CARE FOR YOUR DATA
• Every drive starts read-only. Writing turns on only when you ask, drive by drive
• Write-protected drives stay read-only. HFS+ drives a Mac didn't close properly open read-only: Pro can write to most of them after a warning, or a Mac can check them with First Aid
• Formatting shows the drive's name and size, warns that everything on it will be erased, and waits for your confirmation. Real progress, and the result is checked

YOUR FILES STAY YOURS
Everything happens on your phone, and nothing from your drives ever leaves it. No account, no analytics, no tracking. The app goes online only for Google Play's purchase and rating sheet.

WHAT YOU NEED
• Android 10 or newer with USB OTG (most phones have it), plus an adapter or cable if the drive's plug doesn't fit
• For microSD cards, a USB card reader; the phone's own card slot isn't used

GOOD TO KNOW
• Encrypted APFS volumes don't open
• Files macOS compressed can't be changed, and some of them can't be opened
• Back up anything you can't lose before writing to a drive

Plug in your drive and open it like any folder.

ApfsForge is an independent app, not affiliated with or endorsed by Apple. Mac and APFS are trademarks of Apple Inc.

What’s new

First release. Plug in a drive your Mac formatted and open it in the Files app you already use.
• Free: browse, open and copy files off APFS and HFS+ drives; write to exFAT and FAT drives; reformat a drive as exFAT
• Pro, one purchase: write to APFS and HFS+ drives and format drives as APFS or HFS+