Not all Android mobile devices are created equal, no not even the top of the range models, many suffer badly from the lack of a proper, full featured, robust file, and storage manager. The latest devices have proven that even on an extensive diet of Marshmallow the file manager still remains fairly lacking, and this is where Android as an OS shines brightly, since it users can pretty much do whatever they wish with just about any file type that may at some stage find its way inside your phone. In order to rectify these file manager shortcomings of the stock Android system a number of the best file explorers offers components such as the automatic sorting and display of any of the user’s content via categories that include music, downloads, photos, as well as other files or alternatively sort them by file types like JPEG, or PDF et cetera.
ES File Explorer has for many years remained as the go-to app of choice acting as the Swiss army knife of file explorers for android. It offers a genuinely all in one solution, that has however sadly become a tad bloated as of late interface starting to show its age. Do however definitely not discounted since the floor represents one of the most powerful storage and file managers in the mobile market. It offers a full feature set that includes wireless transfers, FTP, including an inbuilt cloud storage management option to cater for the latest hardware devices.
Gira Mobile’s File Manager app delivers a good-looking no-frills file management tool, designed with a light resource footprint that remains speedy and easy to use. File Manager delivers options such as cut, copy, paste, delete, move, find, rename, compress, explore, as well as serving as an extractor to a number of major compressed file formats. As with ES, users can now also continue managing a multitude of the more popular cloud-based storage accounts from directly within the app.
File Explorer from NextApp delivers all the required basic management functions together with a well organised clean interface that also features additional options such as its FX Connect that allow users to transfer files directly between phones via Wi-Fi direct, as well as a very handy root explorer.