Filio vs FileArk

A file manager built so that one app is enough to handle files on your iPhone. Beyond tidying up what's on your device, you can connect directly to the NAS at home, a rented server, or cloud storage, and work with all of it the same way. No more downloading a file before you can open it. ■ Connect straight to remote servers Supports SMB / SFTP / FTP / WebDAV / Amazon S3 / Cloudflare R2. SMB servers on your network are discovered automatically, so you can connect by picking one from a list even if you don't know its IP address. Usernames and passwords are stored securely in the iOS Keychain. ■ Wi-Fi transfer for your computer Connect from a browser on a computer on the same Wi-Fi network and drag and drop files back and forth. No cable, no extra software. The connection is encrypted with HTTPS and protected by a PIN, and you can stop the server when you're not using it. ■ Compress and extract ZIP, of course, plus tar, gz, bz2, xz, 7z and more. You can create password-protected ZIP files, or look inside an archive without extracting it. ■ View it and edit it in place A VLC-based playback engine handles MKV, AVI and WMV as well as MP4. Videos on a remote server stream right away instead of making you wait for a download. Images, PDFs and Markdown preview in the app, and there's a Hex viewer for binaries. Text files can be edited in the app, with syntax highlighting for 18 languages including Swift, Python and JavaScript. Several encodings, Shift-JIS among them, are detected automatically. ■ The tools you need to stay organized ・7 color tags ・Folder bookmarks ・List, grid and gallery views ・Sort by name, date, size, kind or tag ・File name search and Spotlight integration ・Storage usage breakdown ・Home screen widgets ・Receives files from other apps via the share sheet ・App lock with Face ID ■ Privacy No personal information such as your name, file names or server addresses is collected. Remote connections go directly between your device and your server, never through the developer's servers. Only anonymous usage statistics are collected to improve the app. No ads, no tracking. ■ Completely free Every feature is free. No in-app purchases, no subscriptions. Requires iOS 26 or later / iPhone and iPad (iPad gets a two-column layout with a sidebar)

FileArk is a fast, private file manager for iPhone and iPad. Browse your files, find them the way you remember them, open them, compress them, and send them to another device — without an account, without uploading anything, and without a server in the middle. FIND FILES THE WAY YOU REMEMBER THEM Ask for "photos from last week" or "big PDFs" and FileArk understands it. It reads the text inside your images too, so a scanned receipt is findable by what it says. Everything is indexed on your device and nothing is sent anywhere. SEND FILES WITH A QR CODE Ark Drop shows a QR code. The other device scans it with its camera and gets the file in its browser — a phone, a laptop, a work PC, anything with a browser. Nothing to install on the other side, no cable, no cloud account, and the transfer never leaves your local network. It works the other way round too: the other device can send files to your iPhone. And when the other device is not on your Wi-Fi, Ark Drop can also send over the internet: you share a link, and the file is end-to-end encrypted with a key that never reaches our server. YOUR PHOTOS, AS FILES The Library tab lists your photos and videos with their real names, sizes and dates, so you can find the big ones, copy them into a folder or delete them. FileArk fully supports Limited Photo Library access: choose "Select Photos…" and it works on exactly what you picked. ARCHIVES Create and extract ZIP (with or without a password), TAR, TAR.GZ and 7z, and open RAR files, password-protected ones too. Extracting never drops three hundred files on top of what you already had: it goes into a folder of its own, unless the archive already has one. CONNECT TO YOUR NETWORK STORAGE SMB, SFTP, WebDAV, FTP and FTPS, for a NAS at home or a server at work. Credentials are stored in the iOS Keychain. Large files stream instead of downloading whole, so you can jump to the middle of a video without waiting for the rest. BUILT-IN VIEWERS Images with pinch zoom, video, audio and text. Turn any of them off in Settings and that file type opens with the app you already prefer. MADE FOR IPAD TOO Dual pane with a shared clipboard: copy on the left, paste on the right, no navigating back and forth. EVERYTHING ELSE A FILE MANAGER OWES YOU - Copy, move, rename and delete, with a Recycle Bin that is on by default - Your FileArk folder shows up in the Files app, so anything can go in and out - Sorting that respects your language, list, grid and details views - Light, dark and pure-black AMOLED themes - Right-to-left support PRIVACY FileArk has no server of its own. Your files, their names and their contents are never uploaded. Searching, indexing and text recognition all happen on your device. Photos are read, never collected. FREE AND PRO Everything above is free for seven days. FileArk Pro is a one-time purchase — no subscription, no renewal — that keeps the heaviest features unlocked. You can also unlock them one at a time by watching an ad, if you would rather not pay.