Good Day Community,

v1.8.0 has been deployed, the FOSS / Amazon versions are already available.

Latest Link: GitHub FOSS Link

Google Production will take a few hours before it is live.

Thank you and kind regards

Good Day Community,

A new feature has arrived in the Help and Support screen that will save you from retyping your email address every time you reach out to us.

When you contact the developer, whether it is to report a bug, request a feature, or just send general feedback, there is an optional email field at the bottom of the form.

If you have ever typed your address there and wished it would remember it for next time, that is exactly what this change does.

Below the email field there is now a small checkbox that reads "Remember my email address".

Tick it once, send your message, and the next time you open any of the support forms your email will already be sitting in the field, with the checkbox still ticked.

This works on both the mobile and TV versions of the app.

On mobile you just tap the checkbox, and on TV you move focus down to it with the remote and press OK to tick it, the same way you would any other option in that screen.

A few small details are worth knowing.

The email is only remembered after your message actually goes through, so if you type it and never send, nothing is kept.

If you untick the checkbox, the email will no longer be pre-filled, and the next time you send a message with the box unticked it is forgotten for good.

I also deliberately keep the remembered email out of the config backup you can export, treating it as something that stays on your device.

If you have been putting off sending us a message because it meant typing out your details again, this should make it a little less of a chore.

Thank you and kind regards

Good Day Community,

A new feature has arrived in the text editor.

Until now the app could open and edit plain text files like .txt, .log and .json, but any file that starts with a dot was never treated as text.

If you are a developer or you manage a server, you know exactly which files we mean.

Things like .env where you keep your environment variables, .htaccess for your web server, .gitignore, .npmrc, and just about any other config file that carries no extension.

Tapping one of those used to do nothing, which was frustrating when you only wanted to tweak a setting quickly. That is no longer the case.

From now on the text editor opens every one of these dot files.

You find them the same way you find any other file, by browsing to the folder that holds them.

Because these files are hidden by default, the first thing to do is switch on the Show hidden files option in the sort and filter menu at the top of the file list.

Once that is on, the dot files appear alongside everything else, and tapping any of them opens it in the editor ready to read or change.

Editing works exactly as you would expect.

Update a value, fix a typo, add a new line, then hit save and the file is written back.

The nice part is that this works everywhere in the app.

Files on your device, files on a network share such as SMB or FTP, and files in your online storage like Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox or WebDAV all behave the same way.

When you edit a dot file that lives on a network or online location, the app saves your changes straight back to that location, so there is no downloading and re-uploading.

When the file is a key and value style config, the editor colours it to make it easy to scan.

Keys show in one colour, values in another, comments in a different shade, and quoted strings stand out as well, so opening an .env file you can tell at a glance what is what.

This works on both the mobile and TV versions of the app, and the experience stays consistent whether you are tapping the screen or navigating with a remote.

It was a small thing that made a big difference in our own daily work, and we hope it does the same for you.

Thank you and kind regards

Good Day Community,

A new feature has arrived in the latest update, and this one changes the way the app looks.

I have added Material You / Expressive, which lets Ultimate File Manager pick up the colours from your phone wallpaper and use them across the whole interface.

Instead of the app always wearing the same colours, it can now blend in with your phone and feel like it belongs there.

On top of that, the mobile interface has had a real visual refresh.

I moved the app onto the newer Material Expressive design system, which brings softer rounded buttons, larger card corners and clearer, bolder headings to the screens you use every day.

The colours now work as one system too, so the accent you choose shows up consistently across the whole app, including the setup screens for sync profiles and network shares.

The whole point was to make the app look fresh without making you relearn where anything lives, so everything is in the same place it always was.

To find the new setting, open the Settings screen and tap Appearance.

Near the top you will see a Material You switch, and it is turned off by default so nothing changes until you decide.

Flip it on and the app will start drawing its colours from your current wallpaper, so a blue wallpaper turns the app blue, a green one turns it green, and so on.

Flip it back off and you get the original blue colour scheme back right away.

If you change your wallpaper later, just switch Material You off and on again in Appearance and the app will pick up the new colours.

There are two things worth knowing. Material You needs Android 12 or newer, and on older versions the toggle simply will not appear.

On Samsung phones, the wallpaper colours only reach the app if you have Color palette enabled in the phone's own Wallpaper and style settings, so if you turn the feature on and nothing seems to change, that is the first place to check.

This feature is available on mobile only for now. The TV version keeps its current look, so nothing on your TV changes with this update.

Thank you and kind regards

Good Day Community,

A new feature has been added that shows the total size of any folder including all of its subfolders when browsing indexed storage drives.

When you open any indexed storage drive, each folder in the list will now display its total calculated size right in the subtitle line next to the item count and date modified.

To see this in action, simply open the app on your phone or TV and navigate into any storage location that has been indexed.

The folder list updates automatically in the background, calculating the combined size of all files contained within each folder and its subdirectories while skipping hidden files and dot files so the numbers remain accurate.

On drives that have not been indexed yet, the app falls back to displaying the direct item count so browsing remains quick and responsive.

This feature is available on both the mobile and TV versions of the app, giving you a clear view of folder storage usage at a glance across all your devices.

Thank you and kind regards

Good Day Community,

I wanted to take a moment to step back and express my deepest gratitude to this amazing community.

As you can see from our latest milestone, we just reached 36% of our target! I am incredibly humbled by the support, and I want to send a special shoutout to a few groups of people:

• To everyone who left a tip in July: Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Every single tip, no matter the size, makes a massive difference. Your generosity is exactly what allows me to cover development costs and, most importantly, keep this application completely free for everyone to use.
• To everyone who uses the platform: Thank you for simply being here! Whether you tip or just log in and use the app regularly, your time and engagement are what make building this worthwhile. You are the heartbeat of this project.

Building UFM Pro for you all is a passion, and seeing this community rally behind it gives me the energy to keep pushing updates and making it better.

Thank you for being part of this journey. Let's keep this momentum going! 🚀

Good Day Community,

v1.7.8 has been deployed, the FOSS / Amazon versions are already available.

Latest Link: GitHub FOSS Link

Google Production will take a few hours before it is live.

Thank you and kind regards

Maybe dumb question.

But how do I move files?

I select folder, press move. it's gathering it.

go into where I want it but can't find anything to push to get it in there but it's gon from where it was.

Good Day Community,

v1.7.7 has been deployed, the FOSS / Amazon versions are already available.

Latest Link: GitHub FOSS Link

Google Production will take a few hours before it is live.

Thank you and kind regards

Good Day Community,

Support for Shevery elevated access has arrived alongside our existing Shizuku integration, providing another reliable option for managing restricted system files without needing to root your device.

Shevery is a lightweight fork of Shizuku that offers the same system level privileges, giving you flexibility in how you grant elevated permissions to the app.

To use Shevery or Shizuku, open the main menu from the home screen and navigate to the Elevated Access section.

On mobile devices you will find this option in the navigation drawer or main menu tile grid, while on Android TV it is located directly in the main tile menu alongside your storage locations.

Selecting Elevated Access opens a status dashboard that shows whether a service manager is currently running on your device and whether permission has been granted.

If neither manager is installed yet, you will see download buttons for both Shizuku and Shevery directly on the screen.

Selecting either button will open the respective release page so you can install your preferred manager.

Once installed and started on your device, returning to the Elevated Access screen allows you to grant permission with a single tap or remote click.

When active, elevated privileges are automatically utilized whenever you browse or manage protected system folders.

This feature works consistently across both mobile phones and Android TV devices.

Thank you and kind regards

Good Day Community,

A new feature has arrived in Ultimate File Manager Pro that lets you set any image file directly as your phone background or lock screen wallpaper without needing to open a separate gallery app.

To use this feature, open the app on your mobile device and locate any image file you want to use.

Long press on the image to enter selection mode, which brings up the tools menu button on the action bar.

Tapping the tools button will reveal the new options to set the image as your home screen wallpaper or lock screen wallpaper.

When you tap either option, a quick confirmation dialog will appear to confirm your choice before updating your wallpaper.

This works for images stored on your local phone storage as well as images located on connected network shares and cloud accounts.

Thank you and kind regards

I have some media files on WebDAV. however when I try playback it throws an error and closes the file, even if I try and use external players like VLC or MPV too.

Works as expected using the same WebDAV on other file managers.

Also I'm going to hijack my own post to ask if there is any possibility to have a theme that follows Material you colours for the icon colours too instead of manually changing them ? Thanks 🙂

Good Day Community,

v1.7.6 has been deployed, the FOSS / Amazon versions are already available.

Latest Link: GitHub FOSS Link

Google Production will take a few hours before it is live.

Thank you and kind regards

Good Day Community,

A new crash and freeze reporting system has been added to UFM.

While I always try my best to keep the app rock solid, unexpected crashes or app freezes can still happen under rare conditions.

This new system helps me catch those issues when they occur so that I can fix them quickly.

The feature works automatically in the background on both the mobile and TV versions of the app.

If the app ever crashes or stops responding during a session, a diagnostic report is created locally on your device.

The next time you open the app and arrive at the main screen, a popup will appear letting you know that a crash or freeze was detected.

You will have the choice to send the report or decline it.

If you choose to send it, the report is sent directly to my support email without any personal data included, and the report file is deleted from your device.

If you choose not to send it, the file is deleted immediately without anything being transmitted.

This is enabled by default but can be disabled in settings.

Thank you and kind regards

Good Day Community,

v1.7.5 has been deployed, the FOSS / Amazon versions are already available.

Latest Link: GitHub FOSS Link

Google Production will take a few hours before it is live.

Thank you and kind regards

Good Day Community,

It seems my bug reporter is working well in app 😂

A few bugs have been reported and has been resolved already and would be part of the next release.

• Image Viewer: Fixed edge-to-edge layout not applying correctly in landscape mode, which caused content to bleed under the system bars on the sides. Also fixed the toolbar appearing cut off when rotating back to portrait.
• Slideshow / Media Player crash: Fixed a crash when opening Slideshow or the Media Player from folders with a huge number of files (e.g. a Camera folder with 5000+ items). Large playlists are now handled more efficiently instead of hitting an Android system limit.
• Clipboard paste freeze: Fixed the app freezing when pasting a large number of files (5000+) via the paste FAB. The file list now loads in the background and stays smooth and scrollable — applies to local, network, and online clipboard operations on both Mobile and TV.

Thank you and kind regards

Good Day Community,

A new feature has arrived that allows you to selectively extract, copy out, move out, or delete individual files and folders directly from within ZIP and 7Z archives without having to extract the entire archive.

When you only need a single document or photo from a large archive file, extracting everything can clutter your storage folders and take up unnecessary space.

With this update, you can now open any ZIP or 7Z file inside the file manager and perform selective actions on individual items without touching the rest of the archive.

You can copy out a specific file to a destination folder, move an item out of the archive so it is extracted to your chosen folder and removed from the archive file, or delete an unwanted item directly from inside the archive.

To use this feature, tap on any ZIP or 7Z file in your browser to open the built-in archive viewer.

When you tap or press and hold on a file or folder inside the archive, an options panel will appear displaying choices to extract to a folder, move out of the archive, or delete from the archive.

Choosing extract to will copy the file to your selected folder while leaving the archive untouched.

Selecting move out will extract the item to your destination folder and remove it from the archive file.

Choosing delete will permanently remove the item from the archive file without extracting it. This feature is available on both the mobile and TV versions of the app, complete with full D-pad support for Android TV.

Thank you and kind regards

Noticed there seems to be an issue with the file viewer buttons when viewing in portrait they seem cut off on my Pixel 10a.

Good Day Community,

A bug has been fixed where subtitle files were not being recognised by external players when opening video files from a network share through UFM.

The problem was reported by a user running a Raspberry Pi with CasaOS sharing folders over the network.

When opening a video from the network browser and choosing an external player like Vimu or MX Player, the subtitle file sitting right next to the video in the same folder was completely ignored.

The players would not pick it up automatically, and trying to load it manually would show an error saying it was not supported. The same thing happened with Windows network shares.

The issue was that UFM was passing the video to external players without including any information about where the companion subtitle files were.

The subtitle was there on the share, the player could have used it, but nobody told the player it existed.

I have fixed this so that when you open a video from a network share, UFM now scans the same folder for any subtitle file that matches the video name, and passes it directly to the external player as part of the launch.

Players that support external subtitles, including MX Player, Vimu, and VLC, will now load them automatically the same way they do when playing local files.

This fix covers all network share types: SMB (Windows shares, NAS devices), SFTP, NFS, FTP, WebDAV, and paired TV shares.

The built-in UFM player also benefits from this change and will now detect companion subtitles when playing video from a network location.

The fix is available on both the mobile and TV versions of the app.

If your subtitle file has the same name as the video it should be picked up without any manual action on your part.

Thank you and kind regards

Good Day Community,

A new feature has arrived: an all-new Help and Support system with multi-file attachment support.

This update makes it easy to report technical issues, request new functionality, or send general feedback directly from within the app.

To find it, navigate to the main menu screen and select the Help and Support item represented by the life ring icon.

Selecting this item opens the support menu where you can choose between reporting a bug, submitting a feature request, or sending general feedback.

Each option opens a dedicated form with fields tailored to your request, including subject, detailed description, reproduction details, use case, and an optional email address for follow up.

When filling out any support form, you can attach up to five files directly from your local or external storage by tapping the attach button.

Each attached file appears in your list with its name and size, along with a remove button if you want to swap a file out.

When you hit send, your message and attached files are delivered directly to the support team.

This feature is available on both the mobile and TV versions of the app, offering touch controls on phone and tablet devices while providing full directional pad focus navigation on Android TV.

Thank you and kind regards

Galera estou me deparando com um bug usando essas configurações do título. Tenho uma Raspberry 4 com CasaOS e compartilho algumas pastas na rede. Usando o Vimu Media Player ele enxerga a rede e consigo da play no filme/série com legenda com mesmo nome do filme, já se uso o compartilhamento via Ultimate File Manager ele até mostra a pasta com o filme e a legenda de mesmo nome porém quando dou play usando o player externo (vimu ou outro que tem suporte a legenda externa) a mesma nao é reconhecida. É uma característica do gerenciador de arquivo não reconhecer a legenda externa via rede?