Ulearn vs Files Go
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ulearn
This app acts as a comprehensive local media and file manager, supporting a wide range of video, audio, document, and archive formats. It offers features like file transfer, privacy encryption, format conversion, and a QR scanner to help organize your local files.
- Local video and audio playback
- Document and archive viewer/extractor
- Privacy encryption and lock
- Multi-way file transfer
- Format conversion
- QR code scanner and generator
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An all-in-one local media & file manager, centralize all your local videos, audio, documents, images and ZIP archives. Equipped with file transfer, privacy encryption, format converter and QR scanner to organize local files effortlessly. Core Features ● Local Video Player: Offline files only. Supports MP4, MOV, MKV, AVI, FLV, M2TS, M4V, TS, VOB, WMV, MPEG and more mainstream formats; ● Local Audio Player: Full format support including MP3, FLAC, APE, AAC, OGG, WAV, WMA for lossless local music playback; ● Document Viewer: Open PDF, Word, TXT, HTML, PPT, Numbers, Pages, Keynote office files; ● Privacy Protection: Fingerprint / gesture lock, file encryption & decryption for private data; ● Local image browsing & editing; ● Archive tools: ZIP compression; extraction supports ZIP, RAR, 7Z, TAR, TAR.GZ, TAR.BZ2, GZ, BZ2 (incl. password-protected archives); ● Multi-way file transfer: Wi-Fi LAN transfer, iTunes wired transfer, device-to-device sharing; ● Local audio & video format converter; ● QR & barcode scanner, QR code generator; ● Playback history, incognito local playback, custom skip intro/outro for media files; ● Markdown preview & editing support. All core features above are available for free users. Subscribe to unlock all premium perks, remove in-app ads and access batch encryption, incognito playback and other advanced tools. Auto-Renewable Membership Terms Auto-renew subscriptions: Monthly $0.99 / Month, Yearly $7.99 / Year Lifetime one-time purchase: $9.99. One single payment for permanent full premium access, no recurring charges. Subscription Rules Payment will be charged to your Apple Account upon purchase confirmation. Subscriptions auto-renew, and renewal fees will be charged 24 hours prior to the end of each billing cycle. To turn off auto-renewal, go to [Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions] at least 24 hours before your current period expires. Your membership access remains active until the end of the paid billing cycle after cancellation. If you reinstall the app or switch devices, log in with your original purchase Apple ID and tap [Restore Purchase] to recover your membership at no extra cost. Support & Legal Links For billing issues, missing premium access or function errors, visit our official support page or email us: xiaodeve@163.com Terms of Use: https://xiaodev.com.cn/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://xiaodev.com.cn/privacy.html App Support Page: https://xiaodev.com.cn/support.html This app only processes locally stored files and provides offline media & file management functions solely. Report bugs or compatibility issues via email: xiaodeve@163.com.
Files Go
Manage, transfer, and preview files locally and over networks. This app offers a powerful browser with ad-blocking, a reader for various ebook formats, and a versatile video player. It also supports extensive compression/decompression and secure file privacy.
- Local and network file management
- Powerful web browser with ad-blocking
- Ebook reader for multiple formats
- Versatile video player with VLC engine
- Extensive compression and decompression support
- File encryption and privacy protection
- Desktop assistant for computer sharing
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Files Go is a powerful local and network file management tool, focusing on file transfer, preview, management and iCloud file sharing group. Files Go focuses on all management of iOS files, and become the best assistant for mobile phone management. 【The main function】 ⊙1: File Explorer ⊙ Basic operations: drag&drop/batch rename/delete/copy/move/new/recycle/compression and decompression/encryption and decryption/upload and download/file sharing/document scan/edit/details, etc. File import and export: Support import and export files from computer, iCloud, WebDav, FTP, SMB, and other mainstream cloud service providers ⊙2: Powerful Browser⊙ Reader mode/Video floating/Adblock Plus/Multi-tab/Privacy Mode/Incognito Browsing/Long Webpage Clipping/No Image Mode/Search in Page/Generate QR Code/Custom UA/Save PDF/URL Association/Quickly Open and Copy URL/View image mode/Save images in batches/Custom search engine/Multilingual translation/Bookmarks/History/Developer tools, view web source code, Eruda and vConsole ⊙3: Novel Reader⊙ Fully support TXT/EPUB/MOBI/AZW/AZW3/AZW4 and other formats, complete reading configuration and options, take you into a broad reading world ⊙4: Video Player⊙ Built-in VLC video playback engine, supports almost all audio and video formats, supports up to 4 times speed playback, rich audio and video configuration and minimal playback interface, help high-quality entertainment, Support live broadcast of global network TV stations: M3U, M3UA, RSTP, HTTP, HLS, MMS ⊙5: Decompressing And Compressing ⊙ Support more than 80 compression formats such as ZIP, RAR, 7Z, TAR, LZH, XZ, ISO, CAB, WIM, ZIPX, JAR,AAR,LZFSE, etc. Support password, support file name encoding automatic error correction function, no garbled phenomenon Support deconpression online Support sub-volume compression and decompression ⊙6: Privacy protection⊙ Protect important and private files, support file encryption and decryption, the file extension after encryption is sec ⊙7: UFile Desktop Assistant⊙ A fool-like computer sharing artifact is specially customized for non-professional users. You can connect to the computer with only a scan of the mobile phone. The management is clear, the traffic data is intuitive, the multiple encryption technology is safe, the resource usage is very small, and it supports Window, Mac os, Ubuntu Three platforms have been updated to V1.2 version ⊙8: Netdisk And Network Service⊙ Support SMB, FTP, SFTP, WebDav, Yandex, Goole Drive, DropBox, OneDrive,iCloud, Baidu Cloud Disk,Alibaba Cloud,Nutstore, support encoding automatic error correction capability, Support batch renaming, support encoding automatic error correction capability, support online compression and decompression, image batch optimization and format conversion, and automatic synchronization Support clipboard sharing with other iOS devices Support QR code transmission, unlimited speed, up to 5Gb large file temporary transmission service ⊙9: Photo Backup And Restore⊙ Back up a large number of photos to a network disk or computer, and support album restoration ⊙10: READ ⊙ Support mainstream office documents: OFFICE (DOC/DOCX/PPT/PPTX/XLS/XLSX), IWORK (PAGES/KEY/NUMBERS), PDF Support book reading EPUB, KINDLE, MOBI, AZW, AZW3, AZW4 Support text format TXT, RTF, MARKDOWN, HTML, JSON, XML Support mainstream image formats HEIC, BMP, JPG, PNG, TIF, GIF, PCX, TGA, EXIF, FPX, SVG, PDF, WEBP Supports code highlighting and editing in 191 programming languages ⊙11: Disk Management⊙ Document size, cache size, index size,large file list, clear at a glance, it is more convenient to clean the disk ⊙12: Font Installation And Download⊙ Support font preview, installation and download, you can install any third-party font to the system for use by other apps (13+) ⊙13: System Certificate Installation⊙ Support .pem/PKCS1(.cer)/PKCS12(.p12) and other certificate installation Contact us ufileapp@hotmail.com https://www.ufile.app
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Ulearn at 4.6 against Files Go's 4.0. Ulearn also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 10 days) and ratings volume (237 vs 30). Files Go's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Ulearn sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Files Go sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Ulearn holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ulearn has 237 ratings behind it against 30, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 68% of Ulearn's written reviews are positive against 65% of Files Go's.
Ulearn ships an update every 4 days, Files Go every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ulearn | Files Go |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (237 ratings) — better | 4.0 (30 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 68.3% of reviews — better | 65.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 237 — better | 30 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 10 days |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 150 MB | 122 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | 景元 肖 | 美荣 缪 |
Customer experience
Ulearn
Files Go
Bugs and requests
Ulearn
Reported bugs
13 issues- 🐛 App crashes when adding files to zip archive
- 🐛 Browser's top buttons obstruct website headers
- 🐛 Video freezes with only audio
- 🐛 Overlapping audio when connected to Bluetooth speaker
- 🐛 App does not detect internal subtitles within MKV files
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- 🐛 Ads can be annoying with small close buttons
- 🐛 Encrypted folders cannot be decrypted, showing decryption failure
- 🐛 Cannot play .swf files
- 🐛 Cannot decide between hardware or software decoder
- 🐛 Some users report issues with deleting imported files
- 🐛 Glitchy performance
- 🐛 Poorly designed browser
- 🐛 Video playback issues
Requested features
21 requests- 💡 Adblock functionality
- 💡 Tab management for browser
- 💡 Script capabilities (like Tampermonkey)
- 💡 Full resolution photo and media extraction
- 💡 Feature to play videos using the app's player
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- 💡 Ability to copy m3U8 link and download to library
- 💡 More features for the video player
- 💡 History playback record
- 💡 AB repeat function for listening/watching
- 💡 Multilingual support
- 💡 Dark mode option
- 💡 Ability to delete imported files
- 💡 Option to disable network signal
- 💡 Folder sorting with folders at the front
- 💡 Grid preview for all folders
- 💡 Cast photos and videos to TV
- 💡 Improved browser functionality
- 💡 Better handling of website headers
- 💡 Support for .swf files
- 💡 Improved subtitle handling
- 💡 Better decoder selection
Files Go
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Ulearn
- Ulearn Monthly Member$0.991 Month
- Ulearn Annual Membership$7.991 Year
- File encryption$2.99
- Block Ads$2.99
- Longest Member$9.99
Files Go
- Premium$3.99
