Comparison

FileCloud vs Astren

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

Head to head
About

FileCloud

Securely share, sync, and access company files from any device. Manage and protect your data with robust features like remote access, file versioning, and offline capabilities. Ideal for businesses needing a controlled content collaboration platform.

Highlights
  • Secure file sharing
  • Remote file access
  • File management
  • Offline access
  • File versioning
  • Mobile access
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FileCloud is the best content collaboration platform. It offers secure file sharing, sync and mobile access for small businesses, enterprises, universities, and hosting companies. With FileCloud, easily secure, protect, and manage your company's data and intellectual property. FileCloud works on your own infrastructure or on-premises. It can be installed on your server, or with a trusted hosting partner. This gives you complete control over your data.  FileCloud provides seamless mobile access to your existing network shares. Instantly open files, folders, and documents stored in your Enterprise FileCloud. Access company files quickly and securely with iOS devices. Key Features Remote File Access – Browse files and documents locally, save them, edit them, then re-upload them. File Management - Create and delete folders and files, and search for documents from any location. Sharing - With one click, share selected files and documents to colleagues or business partners. Preview - Preview PDFs and documents. Offline Access – Download files directly onto your iOS device to access them offline. App support - Download files and open them using other applications. File Versioning - Collaborate effectively using unlimited automatic file versioning. Note: This app requires a FileCloud server to function. Your company provides this and an account for you. No user data is collected.

About

Astren

This app combines notes, audio recordings, and guitar tabs into a single platform for songwriters. It offers a full text editor, in-note audio recording, and a built-in tab editor, keeping all your musical ideas organized and accessible.

Highlights
  • Text editing suite
  • Inline audio recording
  • Built-in guitar tab editor
  • Local and iCloud file storage
  • Share notes, recordings, or tabs
  • Light and dark mode
Features
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A notes app built for songwriters. Most songwriters work out of multiple apps. A notes app for lyrics and ideas, a recorder for audio, a second note or audio file to notate the music. It works, but it's messy, and keeping everything organized is a job in itself. Astren brings your notes, your recordings, and your guitar tabs into one place, so your ideas and the music behind them are always together. WRITE • A full text editing suite for capturing ideas the moment they show up • Headers, bold, italic, checklists, and hyperlinks RECORD • Record audio directly within your notes • Recordings live as inline tokens, right next to the lyrics or arrangement they belong to • Loop a riff and write to it NOTATE • A built-in guitar tab editor for notating exactly what you just played • Fast, intuitive, and stored right alongside everything else YOUR FILES, YOUR WAY • Astren stores everything in your phone's Files app, locally or in iCloud • Your work is yours, always SHARE ANYTHING • Share a full note, a recording, or a tab directly from the app • A collaboration tool as much as it is a writing tool NOT JUST FOR SONGWRITING Astren is a fully capable notes platform. Grocery lists, to-do lists, whatever you need. The songwriting tools are there when you need them, and out of the way when you don't. Light and dark mode supported.

Screenshots

FileCloud4 screens
Astren4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Astren at 5.0 against FileCloud's 4.7. Astren also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 80%). FileCloud's advantage is ratings volume (338 vs 5) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 5 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Astren holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FileCloud has 338 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of FileCloud's written reviews are positive against 100% of Astren's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FileCloud ships an update every 6 weeks, Astren every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
FileCloud versus Astren: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFileCloudAstren
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (338 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings338 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Vision Pro — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size153 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCodeLathe Technologies IncJUSTIN ALEXANDER WEISS

Customer experience

FileCloud

All ratings338 ratings
Positive91.7%
Neutral4.1%
Negative4.1%
Written reviews25 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%

Astren

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

FileCloud

Reported bugs

7 issues
  • Audio playback stops when screen turns off
  • Crashes on iPhone and iPad
  • Crashing on iPhone 11
  • PDF documents are blank
  • App crashes when using 'open with' option
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  • Not connecting to server since iOS 10 update
  • Sync doesn't work properly

Requested features

5 requests
  • Restore background audio playback
  • Implement search function when sharing
  • Increase size of picture preview thumbnails
  • Display phone picture backup status
  • Improve file upload process to match Dropbox functionality

Astren

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

FileCloud

No in-app purchases

None

Astren

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is FileCloud free?
FileCloud is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Astren free?
Astren is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, FileCloud or Astren?
Astren is rated higher. FileCloud averages 4.7 out of 5 from 338 ratings, while Astren averages 5.0 from 5 ratings.
Do FileCloud or Astren have ads?
Neither FileCloud nor Astren shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FileCloud or Astren?
FileCloud ships an update every 6 weeks, and Astren every 5 months. Most recently, FileCloud was updated on November 1, 2026 and Astren on October 31, 2026.

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