Material Files

4.4
5.95K reviews
1M+
Downloads
Content rating
Rated for 3+
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About this app

An open source Material Design file manager.

Features:
- Open source: Lightweight, clean and secure.
- Material Design: Follows Material Design guidelines, with attention into details.
- Breadcrumbs: Navigate in the filesystem with ease.
- Root support: View and manage files with root access.
- Archive support: View, extract and create common compressed files.
- NAS support: View and manage files on FTP, SFTP, SMB and WebDAV servers.
- Themes: Customizable UI colors, plus night mode with optional true black.
- Linux-aware: Knows symbolic links, file permissions and SELinux context.
- Robust: Uses Linux system calls under the hood, not yet another ls parser.
- Well-implemented: Built upon the right things, including Java NIO2 File API and LiveData.

https://github.com/zhanghai/MaterialFiles
Updated on
Jun 29, 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
This app may collect these data types
App info and performance and Device or other IDs
Data is encrypted in transit
Data can’t be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.4
5.69K reviews
John Gibson
March 24, 2025
The Material Files app is excellent. It has most of the File Manager features I will ever need and unlike some other FMs can see the media cards in my camera when connected via a USB-C OTG cable. This allows me to use my phone as a backup device while shooting in the field. The one feature that I would like to see added would be multi-select. Maybe a 'select all' feature would be a good stop-gap addition in the nearer term. Great app. But either Android updates or app updates have broken it.
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Terry Jhop
January 7, 2025
Great app that works well. It would be nice to have a small (1x1) widget to switch the FTP server on and off. Ideally with different colours for the status. Reply: Thanks for your suggestion. I do use that, but it means I have to remember to swipe down (at least once) just to check its status. The advantage of a small widget is that the status can be seen quickly without any actions. It would also mean only one press would be required to switch the server on or off.
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Hai Zhang
January 7, 2025
You can try out the quick settings tile
Joshua Chandra
June 23, 2024
1. It has no recently-edited files section. 2. The text editor automatically closes without saving any changes if you switch apps; the currently edited text document doesn't show up in the Recent Apps list, so it actually closes the moment you try to multitask. 3. In the text editor: if you tap the bottom of a long text file, the keyboard obscures the text area instead of auto-scrolling to adjust for visibility of the caret. Everything else is great; it's basically an open-source alt to Fx.
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What’s new

- Fixed crash when opening archive files directly.
- Fixed FTP server Quick Settings tile crash on Android 14.
- Material Design 2 theme may be removed in the upcoming version 1.8.0.
- Other bug fixes and improvements.