Files vs DriveHQ Cloud FTP Server
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Files
Manage all your documents, spreadsheets, and media on your iPhone and iPad. This app facilitates downloading, storing, editing, and transferring files across devices and cloud services. It offers seamless integration with other iOS apps for enhanced productivity.
- Download, store, edit, create, and transfer files
- Cloud synchronization with iCloud
- Support for Dropbox, Google Drive, FTP, and Wi-Fi transfer
- Integrated website downloader for videos and music
- Seamless integration with other iOS apps
- Organize media into folders
- Create documents for email and web attachments
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The all-in-one File Manager for iOS. Files allows you to easily download, store, edit, create, transfer, and manage documents, spreadsheets, and media on your iPhone and iPad. File synchronisation and backup can happen automatically across your devices using iCloud. Files support transfer of files using Dropbox, Google Drive, SkyDrive, FTP, Wifi, and many other protocols. Integrated downloader allows downloading from any website, including mp3, avi, mp4 and youtube videos. Files is tightly integrated with other iOS apps such as Safari, Mail and Pages so you can easily send files between your Apps. Using Files, you can easily create documents for use in emails, web site attachments, personal reminders. You can also use files to arrange your media files into folders, watch movies, play music, and achieve greater productivity on your iOS device. Files is a essential App for any regular iPhone and iPad user.
DriveHQ Cloud FTP Server
This app provides a robust cloud-based FTP, SFTP, and FTPS server solution. It allows for instant setup, secure file sharing with sub-users, and public downloads. Manage accounts and permissions from anywhere for a reliable and cost-effective alternative to in-house servers.
- Instant FTP/SFTP/FTPS server setup
- Secure file sharing with sub-users
- Customizable user permissions
- Public file download hosting
- Remote account and folder management
- Integration with DriveHQ services
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DriveHQ is one of the largest FTP/SFTP/FTPS Server Hosting service providers. DriveHQ Cloud FTP Server can be setup instantly. It is a complete FTP/SFTP solution with all standard FTP features and many high-end business FTP features. You can connect to the Cloud FTP Server using any FTP client software. It can completely replace your in-house FTP server or FTP virtual machines for only a fraction of the cost. DriveHQ Cloud FTP Server is fast with virtually unlimited amount of bandwidth, and it is extremely reliable with over 99.99% uptime. It supports secure FTP with FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS/FTPES) and SFTP. DriveHQ Cloud FTP Server allows you to create sub-users. You can create regular FTP accounts for your employees (co-workers) and guest accounts for external clients. Each user will have his (her) own login credential and FTP root folder. You can share different folders to various sub-users with read-only or read-write permissions. It is the most popular way of securely sharing large files with multiple clients. DriveHQ Cloud FTP Server can host large files for public download. The performance and reliability is far superior to any in-house FTP server. You can publish anonymous FTP download URLs or HTTP-based download URLs. DriveHQ Cloud FTP Server App makes it extremely easy to setup and manage your Cloud FTP Server. You can manage your FTP accounts and Folder access rights from anywhere at any time. DriveHQ Cloud FTP server is better than other FTP servers in that it is seamlessly integrated with our very broad Cloud IT service. Users can use DriveHQ FileManager, WebDAV Drive Mapping Tool or DriveHQ.com website to access their cloud files. Founded in 2003 in Silicon Valley, DriveHQ has over 3 million members and over 20 years of solid track record. Please visit www.DriveHQ.com for more details.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: DriveHQ Cloud FTP Server at 5.0 against Files's 4.4. DriveHQ Cloud FTP Server also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 88%). Files's advantage is ratings volume (242 vs 3) and iOS requirement (5.0 vs 12.0). 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
Both are free to download. Files sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and DriveHQ Cloud FTP Server sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
DriveHQ Cloud FTP Server holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Files has 242 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 88% of Files's written reviews are positive against 100% of DriveHQ Cloud FTP Server's.
Files ships an update every 3 months, DriveHQ Cloud FTP Server monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Files | DriveHQ Cloud FTP Server |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (242 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 88.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 242 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| 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 | 5.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Savy Soda Pty Ltd | Drive Headquarters, Inc. |
Customer experience
Files
DriveHQ Cloud FTP Server
Bugs and requests
Files
Reported bugs
7 issues- App crashes when launched on certain iOS versions
- Random deletion of documents without user action
- Google Drive sync fails with 'Access denied' error
- Files not displaying or downloading
- Blank screen when downloading Google Docs
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- App closes unexpectedly on older devices
- Storage space warnings causing app deletion consideration
Requested features
10 requests- iOS 11 and above compatibility update
- iPad 1 iOS 5.1.1 support
- Document signing capability
- Audio and video downloader functionality
- Music playback while using other apps
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- File sharing with other applications
- MP3 file editing capability
- Touch-based writing/drawing feature
- System file access
- Ability to play music in background
DriveHQ Cloud FTP Server
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Files
- Large Spreadsheets$1.99
- Enhanced Security$1.99
- Remove Ads$3.99
DriveHQ Cloud FTP Server
- 1GB storage monthly service$1.99
- 1GB storage and 5 user licenses monthly service$4.99
- 1GB storage yearly service$19.99
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- 1GB storage + 5 user licenses yearly service$44.99
Questions
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