ES File Explorer Review

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  • last update to this review 10/2019
  • ES File Explorer is banned from Google Play Store due to violation of their terms
  • free
  • tracker uses advertising

File manager & App manager which can explore the phones & computers. Gathers data for advertising trackers, but doesn't display ads in main interface.

review: ES File Explorer is useful for navigation of the Android file system. Allows connection to PC file shares on a LAN! (the key feature). Allows bookmarking internal memory or SD card paths, and LAN paths. There are very few android apps capable of viewing and accessing files from a Microsoft Windows network share. ES File Explorer can access files on a Windows share in a view only, local caching capacity. Due to the advertising trackers and no pay upgrade option this app loses review points.

updated 2019: ES File Explorer is the victim of its own success and the greed of the developers. The app has turned into a big fat piece of bloatware. The devs violated Google Play Store's terms and are therefore banned from Google Play at current. Although this file manager still offers features that are not available from most of the other file managers, there's too much bloat that relates to unnecessary fluff as well as marketing and anti-privacy components. To get ES File Explorer you'll have to download the apk directly from the developer site. Use at your own risk.

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