Fylo - File manager
A powerful, file manager with no ads , no analytics sdk
Details
- External ID
- 1260363
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Fylo - File manager
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 25, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7405388069275176
- Tags
- Android, Productivity, Privacy
- Fetched at
- Sept. 27, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 27, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Fylo is a private, powerful file manager for Android with a clean Material 3 Expressive design. Browse, organize, edit, convert and protect files with built-in tools for storage, archives, documents, PDFs, images, audio and video. Enjoy dual-pane browsing, cleanup tools, duplicate finder, archive support, media conversion, PDF tools, Vault, SMB/FTP/WebDAV, file transfer, APK tools and optional on-device AI. No ads or analytics SDKs.
Enrichment
- Theme
- file transfer and sharing tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- private ad-free file manager for users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Building a full-fledged native Android file manager with dual-pane navigation, deep archive support, media conversion, duplicate hashing, and extensive file operations requires navigating complex Android Storage Access Framework (SAF) constraints and native system APIs.
What it would actually take: The app requires Kotlin/Java with Android Jetpack Compose implementing Material 3, deeply integrating with Android's Storage Access Framework (SAF), MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permissions, and native file system hooks. It relies on native C/C++ libraries (NDK) like libarchive or 7z for robust archive manipulation, and FFmpeg/libvips for media transcoding, thumbnail generation, and metadata extraction. Handling background operations, file system indexing, hashing for duplicate detection, and SAF performance bottlenecks requires deep native Android systems engineering.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 68 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #8 of 69 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 131 days after the earliest competitor.
- HushOS Drive · ph · 2026-09-18 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- NexFileo · ph · 2026-09-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Filevaro – File Sharing · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Sigma File Manager · ph · 2026-06-08 · 152 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Folto — The local Mac file converter · ph · 2026-09-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Fileloom: 200+ file types + handoff · ph · 2026-09-18 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Hosting-File-Manager · github · 2026-09-11 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- filet · github · 2026-09-13 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.39
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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