X-plore File Manager 4.40.01

X-plore File Manager is an excellent application with numerous features for Android, enjoyed by millions of users. Users can connect to cloud servers and manage local files on their devices. This application also enables connections to servers via FTP or SSH.

X-plore File Manager lets you view photos, listen to music, play videos and movies, and much more.

X-plore is a dual-pane explorer, which means that two folders are shown simultaneously, and common operations such as copying files are done from one pane to another. A traditional copy/paste system is also available.

X-plore shows folder hierarchy in a tree view. This offers a clear orientation on where in the file system you are currently and fast switching to other locations. Currently, selected folders and files are highlighted, while other folders/files have slightly darker backgrounds.

You can use X-plore File Manager for free. However it takes enormous time and effort to make an app that works properly and has useful functions, so some advanced functions require payment.

X-plore File Manager Features:

• Dual-pane tree view
• Root access (on a rooted device), also allows changes to read-only files
• Disk Map – see which files consume the most space on your disk
• FTP, FTPS, LAN (SMB/Samba), DLNA/UPnP servers
• Cloud storage access: Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Box, WebDAV and others
• SSH File Transfer (SFTP) and SSH Shell
• Application manager
• USB OTG
• WiFi file sharing
• Access from a PC web browser
• Music player
• SQLite database explorer (files with .db extension)
• Seamless work with Zip (as with normal folder)
• Favorite folders displayable in the root
• Built-in viewers for images, audio, text
• Video player with subtitles
• Hex viewer
• Fast Image viewer with zoom and slide to previous/next photos in a folder
• PDF viewer (on Android 5 and higher)
• Thumbnails for images and video as well as for various file types (depending on the associated application)
• Ability to clear default application handlers
• Multi-selection – always available, yet not disturbing
• Recycle bin
• Search files in folders (also in archives or search results)
• View APK files as ZIP
• Share – send files by Bluetooth, email, or other way supported by the device
• Configurable buttons and key shortcuts
• Hide folders that you don’t want to see
• Vault for encrypting files

The main operations are related to managing files and folders: viewing, copying, moving, deleting, compressing to Zip, extracting, renaming, sharing, and more.

The main interaction is through the touchscreen, where you can tap folders or files to open them, or long-press to open a context menu with options specific to the selected item or multiple items.

Multi-selection allows you to perform operations on multiple files at once. Files can be selected by clicking their checkboxes. You can also select all files in a folder or clear the selection by clicking the parent folder’s checkbox.

Opening a file may mean using one of the built-in viewers for the most popular file types: images, audio, video, and text, or you may configure X-plore to use a system application for opening files, in which case a system-predefined application that can open a particular file is launched. If there are more such applications, Android shows a dialog allowing you to choose the application for opening the file. X-plore indicates that multiple applications may open the file by displaying a small question mark on the file’s icon. When this is shown, you may expect a system dialog for picking an application to open the file.

Sometimes, an application becomes the default for a specific file type (for example, to play MP3 files), which is an Android system feature. However, users may find it confusing to remove the default application assigned to handle a file type. X-plore makes this easier by providing a menu option to clear the default application assignment.