FileBrowser Professional app for iPhone and iPad

4.2 ( 912 ratings )

Business Utilities
Developer: Stratospherix Ltd

13.99 USD

Current version: 23.9, last update: 9 months ago
First release : 18 Apr 2014
App size: 71.94 Mb

Professional document management for iOS, with bulk rename, backup and sync tasks. Edit your documents in-place, stream your media files and connect to over 20 different network and cloud storage locations.

“Maximize the potential of what you can do with files on iOS” - Cult of Mac
“FileBrowser remains the best option” - MacStories

Direct and secure file access to your computers, servers and other storage devices on home or corporate networks. No additional configuration of corporate IT systems is necessary.

Core Features
- Access file servers and cloud storage
- View documents and optionally store them for offline viewing
- Present a video, PowerPoint or Keynote direct from the server
- Copy and move between any type of storage, from single files to whole directories
- Bi-directional automatic sync of network folders to your iPad/iPhone
- Backup local files to a network file server or cloud storage
- Integrates with other apps allowing you to edit, save and share files while on the go
- Integrates with your existing infrastructure, including Active Directory
- Integrates with iOS data protection, utilising hardware-based encryption to secure content
- Pro photographer XMP sidecar file support for rating images
- VPN on-demand support for third-party VPN clients
- Supports Microsoft Distributed File System (DFS)
- Requires no additional software on corporate servers

Office App Integration
- No more copying of documents between apps
- Launch an Office app to edit a network document in-place.
- Changes are automatically saved to the original document
- Scan documents or images direct to multi page PDF
- Automatic colour and perspective correction of scanned documents

MDM Integration
- Centralised distribution of FileBrowser configuration settings
- Enforced security lockdown
- Conform to corporate Mobile Security Policies
- Prevent users from changing local settings
- Selectively override any local configuration setting
- Distribute file server connection details
- Control whether offline viewing/storage is permitted
- Control whether content can be emailed as attachments

FileBrowser Professional uses the SMB1, SMB2, and SMB3 network access protocols (also known as CIFS or Windows File Sharing) to connect to:
- Macs
- PCs
- NAS drives
- Windows File Servers (including Windows Server Clusters)

Access local storage
- USB Drives
- SD Cards
- Folders of other apps
- iCloud Drive folders of other apps
- iOS Photo Library

You can also connect to the following cloud storage
- Microsoft OneDrive
- Microsoft OneDrive for Business
- Microsoft SharePoint 2013 or later
- Box.com
- Google Drive (including TeamDrive)
- Dropbox (including Dropbox for Business)
- Backblaze B2
- Amazon S3
- pCloud
- Digital Ocean
- FileBase S3
- iDrive Cloud S3
- Wasabi S3
- WebDAV servers
- FTP/FTPS servers
- SFTP servers

For fast friendly support please email [email protected]. Please note that we are only able to provide support in English.

Pros and cons of FileBrowser Professional app for iPhone and iPad

FileBrowser Professional app good for

This is good file management you guys/gals behind this. I use it especially when I need to remote manage files on my computers at home so connecting and sorting out folders shares is reminiscent to Windows Explorer. Some features additional features I would like implemented. 1. An always open with so when selecting curtain files it will automatically open up with applications. E.g. Certain video files that Filebrowser can not support will be run automatically by other video players. 2. A playlist for videos like the audio files. 3. Play video in background - as I tend to manage a lot of music videos, I like to listen to when I close the Smart Cover on my iPad 4. Is it possible for support on wireless USBs? I have a SAN Disk wireless USB and use the SAN app for accessing, managing and playing files off the USB, can FileBrowser do that too? Ive tried to display the USB with all the available options, but cant get it to display as a shared folder.

This should be standard install for all iPads. This is great because it allows me to use my desktop for heavy lifting with quick access from my iPad. Love that it allows you to connect to various cloud storage locations as well. I love using it for my massive collection of movies stored on my local home network drive. Allows me to. Easily keep several gigabytes worth of movies on my iPad and open them in different video players without using some stupid cloud service. Especially helpful with PDFs. On my iPad I can easily get the PDF into iBooks or Adobe Acrobat but I cant move it from one to the other. And if youre keeping many huge PDFs locally then youre doubling or triplicating or even quadrupling your storage burden by keeping them in different PDF reader/editors. This is where file browser is so awesome. I get to keep the file local but work with it in any PDF reader/editor I choose. So no more constant downloading of huge PDFs and other files.

This is almost the best APP to get access to my files, stored at my NAS at home.

Come on, the App ist high quality and very professional. For example Share Point and one Drive Business connection, but please spend a nice App icon. Thank you.

Great to access network shares but a few bugs with streaming audio or video to the built in viewer/ player

This app is a little more expensive than many other similar options but there are many little features and benefits I continue to notice.

Some bad moments

We are quite impressed with FileBrowser for business. We are using it to connect to our wireless LAN and via VPN out in the field to allow our users to access certain Windows file shares on a server. It allows us to precisely control what the users can see and do by tweaking the settings and permissions and them locking them in with an admin password. For the features that we are currently using, it is working perfectly. Tech support is email based and is the best Ive ever seen, hands-down. If you have an issue or question they will stay with you until that issue is resolved.

Used to be able to VPN into my works network and access the server. Since the iOS 8 update, the app will scan and find the server but cant access it. Checked with IT and they said nothing has changed on their end.

If you have a home network or a SMB this is the App for your iPad. With this App you can access files on your network, browse the Internet from Safari download and save PDFs and files directly to your network share drives. The app allows you to copy & paste files, create folders etc. a The App supports MS Office files. The App also allows you to authenticate to a Windows server running AD Services so that file permissions are set correctly. Overall a great App!

FileBrowser has become the central switchyard for processing all our documents through iPad. It works consistently and without fail. We are very pleased with this App

Coming from a desktop to iPad, FB helped bridge the loss of an exposed file system. And based on the included profile I also sprang for the Toshiba wifi adapter, which allows for USB flash and hard drives to be attached. FileBrowser is now my central hub to pass files from LAN, flash, and cloud to my iPad apps and back again. Couldnt be without it.

Today our files are everywhere... We have files on our computers, servers (FTP etc.) and local streaming devices. On iOS we dont have a central storage location (files are stored with each app). This FileBrowser app is a game changer. It is one stop simple convenient way to get at all of your files.

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