FE File Explorer

I was a little concerned about downloading the new update. I use the app to pull videos I am working on from my server, and the old video player UI worked perfectly for me. No issues, though, I love the new update. I have to skip around the videos to find certain parts of the speech to analyze, so I used the 15 second jumps and the finger drag skipping all the time. Having the 15 second jumps on the side instead of the bottom makes my process a lot easier since I can more easily hit them to repeat a small section without having to move my hand over the screen, blocking part of the my view and causing a lot of extra movement. That probably doesn’t apply to many people but I wanted the dev to know it helped me out. For others, this is a great app. You can connect to a ton of different cloud services and network shares, and moving files around is pretty slick once you get used to it. It works really well to help get around the limitations of the iOS file system. Video and photo players work very well, so you don’t have to bounce between apps. If you need to open something in another app instead, you can do that as well. I have used it for several years and the dev has always made useful updates and kept all of the features that I use working. A+ from me.

If possible, it would be convenient to add a list of files, for example under the global Settings (that is, those accessible at the main screen of FE File Explorer, still before the user begins to play back any file), that the user has begun to watch but hasn’t finished yet, which can be continued. Alternatively, if adding such a global list under the global Settings were to be troublesome programmatically, you could add some sort of marking next to such a file that would be there until the file is watched to the end or rewinded to the beginning. Because the way it is now, FE File Explorer remembers the files that the user has begun to watch, but it doesn’t indicate which, out of all the files the user has, are specifically those file that the user has begun to watch but hasn’t finished yet. If the user has multiple of such files to finish, he or she can forget which files he or she has begun watching and has yet to finish. Moreover, similarly to how the user can skim back and forth through, say, a video file by swiping his or her finger either to the left or to the right respectively at the left-hand side of the iPad screen during playback, you could make it possible to increase and decrease the audio volume by swiping the finger either upwards or downwards to the right-hand side of the iPad screen during playback. This way, the control over the audio volume would be even more convenient and more quickly accessible than using the physical volume buttons, not to mention accessing the settings available to the the right-hand side during playback first, then switching to the audio controls tab, and only then having access to the volume slider, which is the way it is now.

I’ve been using this app for three years. I used this app for accessing my files on NAS when I bought this because the system version File app wasn’t there in iOS 11 or so. When iOS 12 came out I knew it also got FTP feature and considering it is an Apple software, I used the File app as an replacement for a while. However, it’s probably the most buggy software that I’ve used, even with the very limited things you can do with it. I quickly swapped back to this app and everything just works as it should be. Another problem that encountered recently that could be solved easily with this app was importing photos from computer. I have no idea why half of my photos went disappeared from importing via iTunes. I had to first import to this app via file transfer and then import to photos by copying to album. It will be more time-consuming but at least you wouldn’t lose your photos.