Solid Explorer File Manager

NeatBytes

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this app

Solid Explorer is a file management app inspired by the old school file commander applications. It will help you:
🗄️ Easily manage files in dual pane layout
🔐 Protect files with strong encryption
🖥️ Manage files on your cloud storage or NAS
☁️ Backup apps and files to any desired destination


Explore your device
Solid Explorer lets you navigate to files stored on your device and automatically organizes them into collections. You can view, delete, move, rename or share any files. It also allows you to quickly find the files you need through indexed search with filters.


Keep your files safe
Solid Explorer can protect selected files with strong AES encryption and put them in a secure folder, which contents are unreadable for other apps. The file manager will ask for password or fingerprint confirmation when you browse the folder. Even if you uninstall Solid Explorer, the files stay on your device and are still protected.


Analyze Storage
Although this file manager doesn’t feature a dedicated storage analyzer, you can find out which files take up most of space by going to folder properties of internal storage or SD card. You will find the information about the percentage of space each folder takes and the list of biggest files. You can also use search with a file size filter.


Organize remote files
Solid Explorer supports major network protocols and cloud providers to let you organize multiple remote file locations in one place. You can easily transfer files between cloud locations/servers just by dragging them from one panel to another.


Major feature list:

• Files management - main storage, SD card, USB OTG
• Cloud storage - easily connect and manage files on Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Box, Owncloud, SugarSync, MediaFire, Yandex, Mega*
• NAS - support for major network protocols FTP, SFTP, SMB (Samba), WebDav
• File encryption - password and fingerprint protection
• Archives - support for ZIP, 7ZIP, RAR and TAR files
• Root explorer - browse system files if your device is rooted
• Indexed search - quickly find files on your device
• Analyze storage - manage files taking too much space on your device
• Organized collections - files categorized in Downloads, Recent,Photos, Videos, Music, Documents and Apps
• Internal image viewer, music player and text editor - for easier browsing on remote storages
• Batch rename - with support for naming patterns
• FTP Server - for accessing your local files from PC
• Themes and icon sets - rich customization options

Solid Explorer will also manage files on your Chromebook with support for mouse and keyboard input.

Useful links:
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/NeatBytes/
Translation: http://neatbytes.oneskyapp.com

* with paid add-on

Ratings and reviews

I've been using SolidExplorer for years, and LOVE(d) it! Now, deducting 1 star for every crash, reboot, reinstall I go through without support. It took some getting used to the left and right panels, but once I figured that out, no going back. Lately (2024), I've been having app-breaking issues. No idea what causes them, but when it locks up, there's no returning without rebooting the phone. I've had to reboot it uninstall and re-install the app 4 or 5 times. Emailed the dev the last time.

I paid for this app because it was good. However they have since implemented there most frustrating licensing that continually forgets I bought the app. Their fix? Uninstall + reinstall. Forcing me to set up network + cloud drives all the time. This hasn't been fixed for years. I've never had another app so this. This is the most anti-user licensing I've come across. Don't waste your money buying this.

need better support for USB file transfers. the stock Android file manager handles this task but it would obviously be better to use solid explorer to do this. yet, when I connect 2 phones (flagship Motorola) via USB-c together and set them both to file transfer mode so each phone can see the others files, nothing shows up under storage within solid explorer. please fix this. regular USB sd card show up but not phones storage connected this way.... why!?

What’s new

v2.8.61
- fixed opening archives on remote servers
- fixed notification sounds
- other minor fixes

v2.8.58/59/60
- Shizuku support - access to Android/data and Android/obb folders
- minor fixes