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CLUSTER FILE-FILES-LOCAL · 23 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2012-02-28

Mobile file manager apps

This cluster consists of 22 mobile file manager apps that provide access to local, cloud, and network storage (SMB, FTP, SFTP, WebDAV) with features such as compression, encryption, streaming, and file operations. Entry dates are scattered from 2011 to 2026 with at most one per month, showing no concentration over time. Traction leaders are FE File Explorer, Teyin, and File Manager: Files & Vault, each with 0 stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

APR 2011: 1DEC 2011: 1FEB 2012: 1MAR 2012: 2JUN 2013: 1OCT 2013: 1FEB 2014: 1OCT 2014: 1SEP 2017: 1MAR 2019: 1FEB 2020: 1JUN 2020: 1FEB 2021: 1MAR 2021: 1MAR 2022: 1JUN 2022: 1SEP 2022: 1JAN 2025: 1JAN 2026: 1APR 2026: 1MAY 2026: 1JUN 2026: 1
APR 2011JUN 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 3 hand-coded

Operator · 1 commercial · 1 open source · 1 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 3 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 21RCX - Rclone for Android0★5 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceFile manager app for Android that accesses local and cloud storage, streams media, and serves files over multiple protocols.
  2. 22ANDM:0★7 yrabandonedlivehand-codedcommercialFile manager app that downloads files from URLs, organizes and renames them, shares over HTTP, and displays common document formats.
  3. 23File Manager - Network Explorer0★9 yrabandonedlivehand-codedFile manager app that connects cloud storage and network services to copy, move, compress, and preview files across locations.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.