SambaLite

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About this app

SambaLite is a lightweight, modern, and open-source Android client for SMB/CIFS shares (Samba).
It is designed as a minimalist, reliable, and secure tool for accessing SMB shares on your local network – without ads, tracking, or unnecessary features.

SambaLite is a file client, not a system-level filesystem. It focuses on accessing and transferring files, not on providing a mounted network drive.

The app is intended for tech-savvy users who prefer a lean, transparent solution and value privacy and open source.

Main features:

• Manage connections: SMB server (hostname/IP), share/path, username, password, optional domain
• Multiple connections with custom names
• Connection testing with clear error messages
• Secure credential storage (Android Keystore)
• File browser with name, type, size, and modification date
• Pull-to-refresh
• Sorting (name, date, size)
• File operations: download, upload, delete, rename
• File properties
• Dark/Light mode (system default)

Compatibility:

• Supports modern SMB2/SMB3 servers
• SMB1 is not supported (deprecated and insecure)

Security & Privacy:

• No telemetry or third-party connections
• No unencrypted storage of sensitive data
• Credentials stored securely using the Android Keystore

Permissions:

SambaLite only requests the permissions required for its functionality:

• Network access (SMB communication)
• Access to user-selected storage locations (via Android system file picker)
• Foreground service and notifications (for reliable background transfers and progress display)

No data is collected or transmitted to third parties.

SambaLite provides a modern, minimal, and privacy-friendly way to access SMB shares on Android – focused on reliability and transparency.

Ratings and reviews

Can Sync to my Nas with no difficulty. I will just ask for a syncing interval as "not selected" so you just can "sync now" when you want. Thank you so much for your work! Thanks for the update! "manual only" syncs will do the job. Another suggestion, little bit more complex, I think, will be to add another section for "Your Folders Syncs" listing the folders that you have set up a sync, similar to "Your connections" so you can run your syncs straightforward. Really appreciate your work!

Does what it's advertised to do, and it does it really well. transfer speeds are really quick too

Easy to use app to access my samba share. Also the ability to sync folders (and set the behaviour of the sync) is awesome!

What’s new

- Added: Optional default folder per connection, opened automatically on connect.
- Added: Downloads keep the remote file's last-modified timestamp where possible.
- Changed: Much faster SMB transfers and reworked thumbnail loading.
- Fixed: Duplicate "(1)" folders during sync; files with accented names no longer missed.