# FileBrowser: Documents Manager — user reviews > 1,153 indexed App Store user reviews of FileBrowser by Stratospherix Ltd, rated 4.70/5 from 5,642 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/filebrowser-documents-manager/id364738545/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/filebrowser-documents-manager/id364738545.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 4,641 · 4★ 676 · 3★ 133 · 2★ 37 · 1★ 155 ## What do users think of FileBrowser? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Great file manager - 🚀 Powerful and versatile - 🔒 Secure access to files - 💡 Excellent integration with iOS Files app - 👍 Reliable and stable - 👍 Fantastic customer support **Cons** - 🐛 SMB connection issues - 🐛 Misleading directory caching - 🐛 Video playback problems - 🐛 Buggy UI changes - 🐛 Inability to rename photos **Commonly reported bugs** - Copy and paste functionality broken after update - Inability to access iCloud files - Crashes when accessing large files - Thumbnails not generating properly **Most requested features** - Add support for AV1 video codec - Improve audio playback controls - Implement a recycle bin/trash feature - Add option to loop video playback - Improve video scrubbing and seeking ## Newest reviews (14 of 1,153) ### 4/5 — Einblendung der Lautstärke Einstellungoder Fortschritt im Bild *2026-06-12* Ich anerkenne ja die vielen Verbesserungen, die ihr in den letzten Jahren gemacht habt. Trotzdem habt ihr mit dem aktuellen Update 26.4 wieder mal einen kleinen Bug eingebaut. Ist leider nicht reproduzierbar und tritt nur manchmal auf. Im 5 Sekunden Rhythmus wird die Lautstärke Einstellung eingeblendet, bleibt ein bis 2 Sekunden und wird dann wieder ausgeblendet, und das bei einem Video ohne Ton (alter Super8 Movie). Genauso wird der Fortschrittsbalken im Bild unerwünscht eingeblendet. Beides ist sehr störend und sollte schnell behoben werden. Ich kann aber bestens verstehen, wenn ihr den Fehler nicht so schnell findet, da er nicht reproduzierbar ist. **Developer response:** Please email support@stratospherix.com with details of the issue and they will be happy to help you. ### 3/5 — Great app but 2 issues lately *2026-05-31* I have been using this app for long time till now. It was working flawlessly. But 2 issues are absolutely adjustable, requesting them to fix them. 1. Image slideshow shows little flickering before next image btw transition is set as none. I view images via ftp server, this app crashes while loading the images over ftp. **Developer response:** Hi, we're aware that the slideshow system has developed a flicker on transition, so we're addressing that for the next update. We haven't seen any crashes with image viewing over ftp, so please email support@stratospherix.com and describe your setup/ftp server and we'll try to reproduce it. ### 2/5 — Media compression *2026-05-29, version 26.4* 05/29/26 I don’t know why do you do that guys? Why the application has to reduce the capacity of the media tho? I tried and I compared both medias, the one in this app was certainly compressed. I’ll give you more stars, when you’re done dealing with this matter, because it’s useless, why would I use an app that kills the quality of my medias? The purpose is not only to save, organize, but to keep the native quality level at its best. To keep the medias as they are. And I verified with other apps, they are doing awesome. Fix… ### 4/5 — New design made it unusable *2026-05-26, version 26.4* For some reason you've taken away the ability to choose to fit image on screen, only letting us fit height. so browsing though a bunch of photos CROPS the photo with the side cut off. This makes it IMPOSSIBLE to swipe left or right to the next image. It just swipes around the now zoomed in on photo. ### 4/5 — How to encrypt my files? *2026-04-24, version 26.3* Edit: Thank you for your quick response. Much appreciated. However… I have zero access to those encryption keys. Apple only needs to change their T&C’s, plus change a few lines of code, then they can do whatever they like. Much like removing the word “not” from the line “we will not sell your private data”. It doesn’t take much, and I trust Apple like I trust Google. About 0%. I wasn’t expecting a different answer, to be honest. You would have already added encryption, if it was possible. iOS has never been FOSS, and I’m sure it never will be. Time for me to move on… Thank you again. Review/comment: I’m pretty sure this app does not have any encryption abilities, other than the standard iOS encryption. But, since the iOS encryption keys are held by (or can be made accessible to) Apple, that’s the same as having no encryption at all. Right or wrong, I suppose the encryption included with FileBrowser Pro has the same drawbacks. Assuming that is the case, I can’t justify upgrading to Pro. I love this app. I’ve been using it for years. But since most governments look as though they are moving towards some kind of authoritarian rules, and social media now is just spyware, if I can’t trust my phone or its storage, then this iPhone has become useless to me. Can “owner controlled” encryption be added to this app, or the Pro version? Or should I begin to move away from smartphones. I never really liked them much anyway. Plus, an average £500 Laptop is far more use to me than any £1000 phone. Assuming I can’t get more security for my private files, I thank you for about 10 years of a superb app, but I’ll be off to the world of Linux, and more exercise from lugging around 5KG of Notebook. ### 4/5 — How to encrypt my files? *2026-04-19, version 26.3* I’m pretty sure this app does not have any encryption abilities, other than the standard iOS encryption. But, since the iOS encryption keys are held by (or can be made accessible to) Apple, that’s the same as having no encryption at all. Right or wrong, I suppose the encryption included with FileBrowser Pro has the same drawbacks. Assuming that is the case, I can’t justify upgrading to Pro. I love this app. I’ve been using it for years. But since most governments look as though they are moving towards some kind of authoritarian rules, and social media now is just spyware, if I can’t trust my phone or its storage, then this iPhone has become useless to me. Can “owner controlled” encryption be added to this app, or the Pro version? Or should I begin to move away from smartphones. I never really liked them much anyway. Plus, an average £500 Laptop is far more use to me than any £1000 phone. Assuming I can’t get more security for my private files, I thank you for about 10 years of a superb app, but I’ll be off to the world of Linux, and more exercise from lugging around 5KG of Notebook. ### 4/5 — Great App for Network Access. Could a visual upgrade. *2026-04-09, version 26.3* Great for accessig network drives. I use it to access my Windows SMB. It’s robust and I love the automatic return to position and easily accessible folder path bar, it can even open .html files locally. Improvements: Dark mode should attempt to apply white text on black background to textual files such as .pdf. Currently iOS Smart Invert works as a substitute for this feature. The word search in text files is very poorly optimized, not total results fractional counter, and the jump to position doesn’t work well with large text files, can be improved greatly. ### 5/5 — Tthank you! *2026-04-03, version 26.3* The best files organizer and utilities!!! ### 5/5 — One of my best iPad purchases *2026-04-03, version 26.3* I bought my license over a decade ago for my first iPad. The app has only gotten better in the intervening years. When my current employer issued me an iPad, this is one of the first apps I installed. It gives me access to everything, everywhere, all at once. Being able to easily access cloud and local server storage in one app is *chef’s kiss*. ### 5/5 — Gutes, solides Werkzeug *2026-04-02, version 26.3* Ist stabil, kann alle gängigen Formate, läuft zuverlässig und ist nicht überladen. Die Bedienung hat meines Erachtens Luft nach oben, das mag allerdings dem Mobilgerät als solchem geschuldet sein - daher trotzdem fünf Sterne. ### 5/5 — The easiest interconnected app *2026-04-01, version 26.2* This is the easiest way to reach across connections in a local wan. ### 2/5 — It's a no from me *2026-03-25, version 26.2* The UI far to user Unfriendly just can't get any logic from it. Best i can do is get photo files up. Can't get any other files to show no matter what I try. Unfortunately asking for refund. Guys try the KISS best of luck Asking for refund sorry can't use. ### 4/5 — Ziemlich gut *2026-03-17, version 26.1* Die App ersetzt eine andere Apps. SFTP funktioniert endlich mal einwandfrei mit Schlüssel. Gut wäre, wenn man Speicherorte abschalten könnte. Da ich nicht den Account dazu habe, interessiert mich OneDrive, Dropbox und GoogleDrive nicht. Die Tabs und mehrere Fenster sind brauchbar. Bei dem Update wurde die Zweifensteransicht erwähnt. Gemeint scheint aber auf dem iPad 2 Fenster nebeneinander zu öffnen. Es wäre genial, wenn das auch in einem Fenter ginge. Twinpanel view in one windows would be great. Also unpacker for zip, rar, gz, xz, 7z and so on … ### 3/5 — グーグルドライブとの相性が悪い？ *2026-03-02* iPhoneで、自宅のPCとミラーリングしているグーグルドライブの中身を確認するために購入しました。 同期直後は問題ないのですが、しばらくしてから、問題なかったフォルダにこのアプリのブクマ機能でアクセスしようとすると存在しないと言われてエラーがでます。トップから直接ファイルの位置を探そうとすると該当箇所は空白になっています。 もちろんpc側でフォルダ、ファイルには一切手を付けていません。 この現象はドライブとこのアプリの接続を切り、再度接続し直すと確実に治るのですが、使うたびに認証などを設定し直すのはやはり手間なので直していただけと嬉しいです。 ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Confusing Hierarchy *2026-07-10, version 26.5* Don't know if I should have bought the similar looking pro version, I like using it and use it often but don't like shady practices Show or open the tailscale link when reauthentication is needed, I have to open termius, ssh through there first so it gives me the link before using this app to connect once a week. ### 1/5 — Samba is broken *2026-07-06, version 26.5* last update broke smb ### 1/5 — new update is dumb *2026-07-02, version 26.5* why are you including video data at the cost of the scrub bar length? and the only way to turn it off is by toggling the overlay buttons which means i can't see where skip ahead or backwards is? i hate tapping around in the dark and i hate how little control the scrub bar lost. deleting this and going back to vlc i guess ### 1/5 — Confusing Hierarchy *2026-06-26, version 26.4* Don't know if I should have bought the similar looking pro version, I like using it and use it often but don't like shady practices ### 1/5 — Just a native file browser shortcut - why would I need this? *2026-04-15, version 26.3* You cannot use it as a replacement for the native “Files” browser app in iOS. This is nothing more than an app that launches the native app when you need to browse files ON the iOS device itself. Worthless. Also, MP4 previews are not shown; just a generic “MOVIE” icon. So you see a list of timestamp filenames and no visual previews so dashcam SSD browsing is useless also. ### 1/5 — Misleading — requires separate $15 Mac purchase *2026-03-19, version 26.1* The app presents itself as part of a Mac-to-iPhone file sharing solution but is client-only. To actually use it with your Mac you need to separately buy “FileBrowser Pro for Mac” — a completely different $14.99 app. This is not made clear anywhere in the listing. To make it worse, there’s also a “FileBrowser Professional” bundle for iPhone, making three similarly named products that are easy to confuse. Save yourself the frustration and just use macOS’s free built-in SMB file sharing with the Files app. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t allow you to find/check/delete duplicates *2026-01-22, version 26.0* I searched for “delete duplicate files” in the App Store. This app came up, but it doesn’t allow you to do that. Very frustrating as I just wasted $8. ### 1/5 — Tried numerous protocols all failed *2026-01-17, version 25.12* I have tried connecting via SMB, FTP and WebDav to my synology NAS. I have tried IP address and host name. None worked. Waste of £8 ### 1/5 — Excelが開けなくなりました *2026-01-16* iOSを最新にバージョンアップしたらExcelが開けなくなりました。どうか改善お願いします **Developer response:** Please use the latest version of FileBrowser, 26.0, which should fix the Edit In Place option. If this doesn't work then you can email support@stratospherix.com with more details and we will be glad to help. ### 1/5 — Worst than Files app *2025-12-27, version 25.12* Bought it to replace the Files default app on the iPhone. It turns out that it is worst than Files. Avoid buying it ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Excelente *2026-07-25, version 26.5* Lo más sorprendente es su velocidad, además de todas las funciones que integra. ### 5/5 — Le top *2026-07-16, version 26.5* Le seul qui fonctionne Convenablement Et en plus permet à du matériel Apple de se Connecter entre-eux. Aucune application Apple n’est capable de le faire si parfaitement. ### 5/5 — The best *2026-06-19, version 26.4* This app is so good on iOS (phone and pad, and Apple TV), easy to install and connect to your local network. ### 5/5 — FileBrowser for iPad *2026-06-18, version 26.4* This app is an essential complement to the native Files app on iPadOS and iOS. FileBrowser’s multiple connection methods markedly ease file transfers from device to device. I consider this tool indispensable for file management in daily use. ### 5/5 — Il Top del Top *2026-06-11, version 26.4* Uso questa app da quando è apparsa su AppStore, la migliore in assoluto nel suo genere! ### 5/5 — Music *2026-06-08, version 26.4* I use this app to store and listen to music. Is it possible that you could add the option to be Abel to fade out music at end of song ### 5/5 — Very good app! *2026-06-03, version 26.4* Great connectivity! All working fine! ### 5/5 — Indispensable *2026-05-23, version 26.4* El mejor gestor de archivos posible ### 5/5 — 愛用しています！ *2026-04-08* 私はこのアプリを、自宅に設置しているNextcloudサーバーへアクセスするために日常的に利用しています。実際に使ってみて、全体的に非常に素晴らしい出来だと感じています。動作は安定しており、複数のタブを同時に開いて作業ができる点は特に便利で、作業効率が大きく向上しました。ブラウズやファイル操作をストレスなく快適に行えるため、日々の業務や個人利用の両方で重宝しています。 一方で、改善の希望として一つ挙げるとすれば、テキストファイルを開いた際に文字コードが自動的に適切なものに選択される機能があるとさらに便利だと感じます。現状でも十分に満足していますが、この機能が追加されれば、より一層快適でスムーズな利用体験になると思います。 また、動画をピクチャーインピクチャーしながら、作業できるようになるといいと思う。 総合的には、安定性と利便性を兼ね備えた優れたアプリであり、Nextcloudユーザーには強くおすすめできます。今後のさらなる進化にも期待しています。 ### 5/5 — SUPER! *2026-04-03, version 26.3* Macht einem das Leben leichter! Alles klappt wie beschrieben und läuft bestens, stabil und schnell. Super Datenschutz, es werden keine Daten erhoben beziehungsweise zum Tracking usw. verlangt! Was will man mehr? Updates kommen nach wie vor regelmäßig. Danke für die tolle Arbeit! 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