Fileglow: File Manager

Fileglow is a file manager built on three principles: privacy first, then reliability, then simplicity. No ads, no account, no tracking, and it never writes over your files.

Private
• No ads, no account, no tracking, no analytics, no crash reports and no AI.
• Fileglow goes online only for what you set up: your own shares and Dropbox, Wi-Fi transfer to your computer, and the Google Play purchase.
• Sort photos finds places with a list inside the app, so nothing about your photos goes online.
• Share passwords are encrypted with a key in Android's keystore, and an SFTP server whose key changed is refused.
• All files access is used only to browse, copy, move and delete your files.

Reliable: the file safety promise
Your files may be the only copy of your photos, so not losing them comes before everything else.
• Fileglow never writes over a file. A clash gets a new name, and Replace keeps the old file in the trash.
• A copy is checked whole before its original is removed. A failed copy cleans up after itself.
• One file job runs at a time, so two jobs never touch the same file.
• Deleting for good always asks. Everything else goes to the trash or can be undone.
• A job cut short by a crash or a pulled card is cleaned up the next time. The originals are never touched.

Tested on 10 GB
Sort photos was tested with 6,012 files, 10 GB in all, every file checksummed before and after each test:
• All 6,012 sorted into 287 folders, byte for byte, in about 24 seconds.
• Put photos back: same names, same places, same bytes as before.
• App killed 3, 10 and 18 seconds into a sort: nothing lost, and put back gave the exact original each time.

Simple
• Home shows your storage, what fills it, recent files and the folders you open most.
• A list or a grid per folder, sorted by name, date, size or type, remembered per folder.
• Find: type a few letters of a folder or file name and go.
• Previews of photos, videos, PDFs, music, text, code and what is inside a zip.
• Copy, move and rename many at once, zip and unzip, and a trash on every volume.
• Columns on a tablet or a phone on its side.

Your launcher's look
With Hyprtile as your home screen you get tiles with gradient borders; with Phosphor, a glowing terminal on true black. Without them: Light, Dark, Black or any of 84 themes.

Pro (one optional purchase)
• Network shares: SMB, SFTP, FTP and WebDAV as folders, and Dropbox.
• Films played straight from your shares, with subtitles.
• Wi-Fi transfer to and from a computer's browser.
• A vault: files sealed with a password.
• Archives as folders: zip, 7z, rar and tar. Search inside files.
• Two folders side by side, saved as workspaces.
• Folder mirrors: a phone folder kept copied to your share, each file read back and checked, nothing ever deleted.
• Find duplicates, checked byte for byte. The extras go to the trash, so Undo puts them back.
• Sort photos into folders by place and date, with a preview first and Put photos back after.

Accessible
TalkBack labels on every row, touch targets of at least 48 dp, and everything fits at 200% text size.

Free, with no ads. Pro is one optional payment, no subscription.
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