Comparison

FileBrowser vs wiit

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

FileBrowser

Access and manage files across your home computers, network drives, and cloud storage. Upload, download, copy, and edit documents directly from your device, with built-in viewers for various file types and streaming capabilities.

Highlights
  • Connect to computers, NAS, and cloud storage
  • Upload, download, copy, and move files
  • Multi-tabbed browsing and split-screen support
  • Edit documents in-place
  • Built-in viewers for documents, photos, and media
  • Stream movies and music with AirPlay/Chromecast
  • Annotate PDFs and images
Currently charting
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Use your iPad or iPhone to connect to your home computers, network drives and cloud storage. Easily upload/download/copy files and folders from one location to another, and browse your content using a variety of built-in viewers. *** FileBrowser remains the best option if you're looking for a file manager that supports a variety of external connections and also integrates deeply with iOS - Federico Viticci - MacStories *** *** FileBrowser's setup varies for every device, and the automatic wizards work super-well. Charlie Sorrel - Cult of Mac *** Ultra-fast browsing of your computers. Faster than Windows Explorer or Mac Finder and our users agree! GET ORGANIZED FileBrowser gives you everything you need to keep your files effortlessly organized: Move, edit, delete, rename, copy, zip and unzip. Download files from the web and paste them wherever you choose. MULTI-TABBED BROWSING Our FileBrowser suite of apps are the first file management apps to support multiple tabs. Connect to many of your locations at once and switch between them with ease. Use iPadOS split-screen mode to drag & drop between multiple windows. CONNECT TO Windows, Mac, Linux, Time Capsule, NAS drives, portable WiFi drives, SMB, Samba. Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, OneDrive, WebDAV, FTP and SFTP. Link to the same cloud storage with multiple accounts, if you have more than one Dropbox account, for example. EXTEND THE FILES APP FileBrowser allows you to access all your connections from the iOS Files app and other apps that use this as their document chooser, bringing network access to those apps. EDIT IN-PLACE No more copying of documents between apps. Launch an app to edit a network document in-place, such as Word or Pages or any of the Office and Mac suite. Changes are saved to the original document automatically. BLAZINGLY FAST Create bookmarks to your favorite locations & folders. Use a single tap to connect and browse to a favorite folder. PHOTO VIEWER Browse your photos wherever they are stored and display them on your TV or projector using AirPlay or Chromecast. Easily flick through holiday snaps or use the built-in slideshow feature. STREAM YOUR MOVIES / MUSIC Stream movie files or listen to music, both with AirPlay™ and Chromecast support. Use our built-in viewers or stream video to other apps. DOCUMENT VIEWER View Microsoft Office, Apple Pages, Numbers, KeyNote, PDF, text files, source code, HTML, and many more using the built-in viewers. ANNOTATE PDFS AND IMAGES Use the built-in annotation tools for PDFs and images, or use the iOS annotation tools to add notes, drawings or highlight text. SECURITY AND ENCRYPTION FileBrowser securely stores your passwords in the iOS keychain and uses iOS encryption features to protect your local content. Protect local files using a password, TouchID or FaceID. CONNECT ANYWHERE Connect to your Mac or PC when away from home. See our website for details: https://www.stratospherix.com/setupvpn TOO MANY FEATURES TO LIST FileBrowser has many features that we would like to tell you about. Check out our website. You'll be amazed! https://www.stratospherix.com/products/filebrowser FIRST CLASS SUPPORT User manuals and help are available at stratospherix.com/support with how-to articles and videos. You can also email us for fast, friendly support.

About

wiit

Features
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Some things you only look for when you are in a hurry. The water shut-off valve. The fuse box. The storage room keys. The notebook you left somewhere. Stop explaining where things are. Send a wiit. A wiit is a photo of where the thing is, plus the part only you know. How it works Take the photo. wiit reads the street off the photo itself, so you only add what it cannot see: "third drawer down, turn it clockwise". Then find it later by name, place or tag. Mark something as urgent and it comes first in every list, everywhere. Group them A space holds everything about one place: the wifi, the boiler, the bin days, the meter. Hand the whole thing over at once instead of explaining it four times. Send it as a link Turn a wiit or a whole space into a link with a six-character code. Whoever opens it needs no app and no account. It opens in a browser, on any phone. You choose how long the link lasts, and you can pull it back whenever you want. The server cannot read it When you share something it is encrypted on your iPhone before it leaves. It is decrypted in the browser of whoever opens the link, using a code that never reaches our server. What we hold are blocks we have no key to. The rest never leaves the phone at all. Your wiits live on the device and sync through your own iCloud. There is no account to create, nothing to log into, and no analytics watching you. On paper too Export a whole space as a PDF or Markdown, for the folder in the hallway or the handover email. wiit Pro The app is free, and so is everything about keeping: unlimited wiits, unlimited spaces, tags, search, sync through your own iCloud. Sharing on free is one live link at a time: a single wiit, for seven days. wiit Pro is one payment. No subscription, ever. Ten live links at once, and two of them can be permanent. Share whole spaces in one link. Pick 7 days, 30, or never. Export to PDF and Markdown. Works offline. iPhone only.

Screenshots

FileBrowser4 screens
wiit4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: wiit at Free against FileBrowser's $7.99. FileBrowser's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and chart position (#80 vs unranked). On ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

wiit is free to download; FileBrowser costs $7.99 up front. wiit sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. FileBrowser asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
FileBrowser versus wiit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFileBrowserwiit
Price$7.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (5.6K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews82.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings5.6K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
Best chart rank#80 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size70 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperStratospherix LtdAlvaro Martin

Bugs and requests

FileBrowser

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Copy and paste functionality broken after update
  • Inability to access iCloud files
  • Crashes when accessing large files
  • Thumbnails not generating properly

Requested features

5 requests
  • 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

wiit

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

FileBrowser

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

wiit

One-time1
  • wiit Pro$12.99

Questions

Is FileBrowser free?
FileBrowser costs $7.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is wiit free?
wiit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do FileBrowser or wiit have ads?
Neither FileBrowser nor wiit shows ads.

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