Plain Files

Hadrian Burkhardt

About this app

Plain Files is a straightforward file manager for Android — no ads, no account, no
subscription, and no network access at all. You buy it once and it is yours.

BROWSE ANYTHING
• Internal storage, SD cards and USB drives, side by side
• List or grid view, with sorting by name, size, date or type
• Breadcrumb navigation, and a search that can look in one folder or everywhere
• Hidden files on request

ANY SIZE OF SCREEN
• On a tablet or a wide window you get two panes: the folder list on the left, and what is
inside the folder you pick on the right — no jumping back and forth
• Pictures preview at full size beside the list, with their details
• The same layout on a phone, a 7-inch tablet and a 10-inch tablet

WORKS WITH YOUR OTHER APPS
• Share a file to Plain Files from anywhere, then pick the folder to drop it in
• Choose Plain Files when another app asks you for a file
• Search everywhere at once: an index means answers arrive right away instead of after a
long scan — and it always says how current it is
• Delete, rename or move by mistake? Undo it

MANAGE YOUR FILES
• Copy, move, rename and delete, one item or many at once
• Rename a whole batch at once, numbered in a series that carries on where the last one stopped
• Create folders and edit text files in the built-in editor
• See the details of anything: size, type, location, modified date
• Open a file in any app, or share it

FIND OUT WHERE THE SPACE WENT
• A storage-usage view that measures every folder and ranks it largest first
• Spot the folder that is actually eating your storage, then act on it

ARCHIVES
• Create ZIP archives, and extract ZIP, TAR, TAR.GZ, TAR.BZ2, TAR.XZ, GZ, BZ2, XZ and 7z
• Look inside an archive before you extract anything — text, images, documents, audio and
video included, read straight out of the file
• RAR is not supported — it needs native code this app does not ship, and it says so rather
than failing with a strange error

PRIVATE BY DEFAULT
• No INTERNET permission. The app cannot send your data anywhere, because it has no way to.
• No analytics, no advertising SDKs, no third-party trackers
• No account, no sign-in, nothing to remember
• Your files stay on your device, always

SOLD ONCE
• One purchase, every feature, no ads and nothing to buy inside the app
• No subscription

PERMISSIONS, EXPLAINED
Plain Files asks for "All files access" because that is what browsing and managing files
anywhere on a device requires — the app's core purpose. Google Play only grants this
permission to app types that genuinely need it, and a file manager is one of them. If you
would rather not grant it, the app still works: it can browse a folder you pick yourself
through Android's own folder picker, and it remembers that choice.

Read the privacy policy: https://gitea.softwareapp-hb.de/fishfacegit/file-manager/raw/branch/main/PRIVACY.md

What’s new

Plain Files is here: a file manager with no ads, no account and no internet permission, so nothing leaves your device.

Browse internal storage, SD cards and USB drives. Copy, move, rename and delete files; undo a delete, rename or move; search everywhere; find duplicates; unpack ZIP, TAR, GZ, BZ2, XZ and 7z; star the folders you use; and read images, video, PDFs and text inside the app.

One purchase, every feature. No tracking, no subscription.