Good Day Community,

I am taking some time to improve on the mobile UX / UI design, attached are some that I have worked on, let me know in the comments what other ones I need to improve on 👍

Thank you and kind regards

Good Day Community,

A new photo tool has arrived in the app that lets you view camera metadata, clean private location tags, and rename batches of photos using EXIF information.

When you take photos with a phone or camera, the files often store your exact GPS coordinates, camera model, and capture time.

I wanted to give you an easy way to inspect that information and scrub it before sharing your photos online, or use those capture details to organise messy photo collections.

For now this feature is available on mobile only.

You can find it whenever you select one or more photos in the file browser, whether they are stored on your local device, a network share, or a cloud drive.

Once you select your photos, tap the floating tools button in the bottom corner and choose the new Photo EXIF Cleaner and Renamer option.

When the tool opens, you will see a carousel of your selected photos along the top with three sections beneath it.

The first section lets you inspect all the metadata stored inside each picture, including camera optics, exposure settings, timestamps, and GPS location. If a photo has location data attached, you can open it directly in your maps app or tap a button to remove the GPS coordinates right there on the spot.

The second section is the privacy cleaner.

This is where you can strip personal metadata across all your selected photos at once.

You can choose a complete privacy wipe to remove location, camera details, and author tags, or choose to remove GPS tags only.

You can also pick custom options if you want to keep certain details like capture dates.

You have full control over where the cleaned files go, with options to update the original files directly, save copies with a cleaned label, or export them to a different folder.

The third section lets you batch rename photos using their actual capture metadata.

You can choose from ready-made patterns or build your own by tapping chips for capture year, month, day, time, camera model, and sequence numbers.

A live list updates as you type so you can see exactly what the new filenames will look like before applying any changes.

Thank you and kind regards

Good Day Community,

A new feature has arrived that allows you to browse and manage your TV storage from your phone even when the app is closed on your TV.

Previously when connecting your phone to your TV through the paired TVs feature, the app on the TV had to stay open on the screen for the file browsing connection to work.

With this update, once you have linked your phone and TV together, your TV keeps the sharing service running quietly in the background.

You can exit to your TV home screen, switch inputs, or use other streaming apps, and your phone will still be able to open the TV storage, copy files back and forth, and manage folders seamlessly.

To use this feature, open the app on your phone and tap on Paired TVs from the main screen or network section.

Tap the plus button to scan for your TV on the same local Wi-Fi network, select it, and enter the pairing code displayed on your TV screen. Once the handshake finishes, your TV is linked and immediately ready for background access.

The background sharing service starts automatically on your TV as long as at least one paired device exists, and it shuts down completely on its own if you ever unlink all devices.

If you prefer the app to only share files while it is actively open on your screen, you can turn background sharing off at any time.

On your TV, navigate to the Settings screen and scroll down to the Background TV Sharing option where you can toggle the switch with your remote.

This background sharing service is designed specifically for Android TV and Fire TV devices, while phones and tablets act as the client connecting in to browse the storage.

Thank you and kind regards

Good Day Community,

I have added support for JPEG XL images in UFM Pro, and it is available starting with the 1.8.8 update.

JPEG XL, the .jxl format, is a modern image standard that offers excellent compression and quality compared to older formats, but Android has not had great support for it out of the box.

I wanted UFM to handle .jxl files the same way it handles any other image you might have on your device, network share, or cloud storage, so we built that in properly.

When you browse your files you will see .jxl images displaying thumbnails just like JPEGs or PNGs do, whether those files are sitting on your phone's local storage, a network share over SMB, SFTP, FTP, WebDAV, NFS or DLNA, or in a cloud account like Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Amazon S3, or Box.

Tapping a .jxl file opens it in the built-in image viewer where you can zoom, pan, and move through a folder as a slideshow. If you make edits to a .jxl image and save, it saves back as a .jxl file rather than converting it to something else.

The File Properties sheet will also show you the image dimensions and megapixel count, which previously only worked for formats Android could read natively.

From a file management perspective, .jxl files now show up correctly under the Images filter when you are sorting or filtering a folder, they are included in search results in the Images category, and Smart Sort will route them to your Photos folder alongside your other images.

You can also convert a .jxl image to PDF using the built-in PDF export, which works the same way it does for any other supported image format.

All of this works on both the mobile and TV versions of the app, including full D-pad navigation on TV.

Thank you and kind regards

Good Day Community,

A new feature has arrived in the latest update that allows Ultimate File Manager Pro to appear as an option whenever you open files from external applications.

Until now, opening files from other apps only worked for a few specific types like application packages and shared items.

I have now expanded this across the board so that you can use our built-in tools no matter where you start opening your files.

This feature is available on both the mobile and TV versions of the app.

Whenever you tap a document, image, video, audio track, archive, or any other file in an external app such as a web browser, email client, messaging app, or download manager, you will now see Ultimate File Manager Pro in the system chooser dialog.

Selecting it opens the file directly inside our corresponding built-in viewer without needing to switch back and forth manually.

Images open in the image viewer, music and videos play directly in our media player, PDFs and spreadsheets open ready to read, and archives like zip or seven zip files open straight into the archive browser.

If you open a plain text or code file and make edits using our text editor, tapping save will automatically write those changes straight back to the original source location.

If you open a folder from an external app, our file browser opens directly into that directory with your files ready to manage.

When opening files that come through as cloud or messaging attachments, the app buffers them seamlessly in the background and takes you right into the viewer without any extra taps.

Thank you and kind regards

Good Day Community,

A new feature has arrived in Ultimate File Manager, and it is one I think a lot of you have been waiting for.

You can now preview files from inside an archive without extracting the whole thing first.

Until now, if you had a zip file full of photos and wanted to find one specific image, you had to extract it out to a real folder before you could even look at it.

That meant clutter on your storage and a lot of waiting when the archive was big. No more.

When you open any archive in the app and tap a file, it opens straight away in the built-in viewer, whether it is an image, a text document, a PDF, a spreadsheet, an ebook, or even a song or a video.

Only that one file is pulled out into a temporary spot in the background, so the rest of the archive stays untouched and your storage is not filled with files you never wanted out in the first place.

Finding it is easy because there is nothing new to hunt for.

Open a zip, 7z, tar or rar file the same way you always have and you will land in the archive browser as before.

Tap any file to see it.

On the mobile version you can long press a file or folder to get the familiar options for extracting it, moving it out, or deleting it.

On the TV version there is no long press, so I added a small Options button at the top of the screen that acts on whatever entry you currently have highlighted with the remote.

I made sure this behaves the same whether your archive lives on your phone, on a network share, or in cloud storage.

When you close the archive the temporary copy used for the preview is cleaned up automatically, and if the app is ever interrupted while you are inside one, anything left behind is swept away the next time you open the app.

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

Thank you and kind regards

Good Day Community,

A new feature has arrived to provide clear glassmorphic success and failure notices whenever you install or update an application.

Whenever you install or update an APK or XAPK file from inside Ultimate File Manager Pro, the app will now automatically present a frosted glass notice as soon as the package installer finishes processing.

If the installation succeeds, the panel gives you the option to launch the newly installed app directly or dismiss the message.

If the installation fails for any reason, such as a signature mismatch from sideloaded packages, an incompatible device architecture, or low storage space, the notice will explain the exact reason for the failure so you know immediately what went wrong instead of wondering whether the install completed.

You can trigger an installation by selecting any APK or XAPK package file in your storage browser or remote manager.

I have made sure this works seamlessly across both mobile devices and Android TV, where you can navigate focus and interact using your remote D-pad.

Thank you and kind regards

Good Day Community,

A new tools menu has arrived for browsing archives in Ultimate File Manager Pro.

When viewing the contents of an archive, you will now see the same floating tools button experience you are familiar with from the main file browser.

To try it out, open any supported archive from your file list.

When you tap the icon of a file or folder inside the archive, or long press on any item row, it will enter selection mode and a tools button will appear in the bottom corner of the screen.

Tapping this tools button opens a menu with options to extract the selected items to a destination of your choice, move them out of the archive entirely, or delete them from the archive.

You can select single items or multiple items at once to perform these actions in batch.

I have made sure this experience works on both mobile devices and Android TV.

On TV, you can use D-pad focus on any entry and press the options button at the top to access the same tools menu smoothly with your remote.

Thank you and kind regards

Good Day Community,

A small but handy new feature has arrived on mobile.

Your main screen now has a gear icon in the top right corner, right next to the add button, and it opens Settings in a single tap.

The reason for it is simple. Getting to Settings used to mean scrolling the main menu down to the settings tile every time, which felt like a lot of effort for a quick tweak.

The gear puts that whole screen one tap away, so you can hop in, change what you need, and get back to your files.

You do not need to look hard to find it.

Open the app and the gear is sitting in the top right corner of the main menu, beside the button that creates a custom tile. Tap it and the settings screen opens just like it always has.

One thing worth knowing is that when you long press a tile to enter edit mode and rearrange things, the gear quietly hides itself along with the add button so it is not in the way, then comes back the moment you are done.

For now this is available on mobile only. TV users will not see a change, and we will decide whether a similar shortcut belongs there in a future update.

Thank you and kind regards

Good Day Community,

I have given the batch rename preview a proper overhaul, and it is a lot easier to trust what you are about to do to your files now.

The old preview stacked a small original name above the new name, and it was never quite obvious which was which, whether the list was in order, or what exactly was going to change.

The new preview shows each file as its own card with the current name on top and the new name underneath, each clearly labeled.

The part of the name that actually changes is highlighted so you can spot it instantly even in a long filename, and files whose names would not change at all are greyed out so they do not masquerade as edits.

Long names scroll sideways so you can read the whole thing even when it does not fit on the screen.

Every row now has a clear number in a bubble beside it, and that number matches the exact order the rename will run in, which now follows the same order you saw in the file browser.

No more folders jumping to the top and no more guessing whether what you are looking at is what will happen.

I also added live warnings right in the preview. If two files would end up with the same name, if a name is invalid, or if a name already exists in that folder, the row is flagged before you commit.

Duplicate and invalid names block the rename until you sort them out, while collisions with existing files just warn you so you can decide.

On mobile the rename screen now uses the full window and gives the preview the space it deserves, and all of this works on both the mobile and TV versions of the app, with proper remote navigation on TV.

Thank you and kind regards

Good Day Community,

RClone cloud storage integration is now available in UFM Pro. RClone itself supports well over a hundred storage providers, and while we have only integrated a select few so far, the groundwork is in place to add more. The current supported providers are Filen, Drime, Mega, and Koofr, with more on the way. If there is a specific provider you would like to see added, feel free to make a request on the official subreddit.

It works on both mobile and Android TV, and all the regular file operations like browsing, uploading, downloading, renaming, and deleting are supported.

The FOSS edition of UFM is available on GitHub for anyone who prefers the open source build. You can find the thread and all the release details below. And for feature requests and community discussion, join us on the subreddit.

GitHub: Kilowatch/ultimate-file-manager-pro: Ultimate File Manager Pro

XDA Forum: https://xdaforums.com/t/app-free-ultimate-file-manager-pro-dual-pane-android-mobile-android-tv-foss-edition-available.4791958/

Official Reddit Group: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFManagerPro/

Thank you and kind regards

Good Day Community,

A new feature adding full support for AVIF image files along with thumbnail rendering across network and online shares has arrived.

AVIF is a modern image format that provides high quality compression at much smaller file sizes.

You can now view AVIF image files directly inside the built in image viewer, browse them in slideshow mode, and see their thumbnails directly in the file browser.

When you open any local folder or network share containing AVIF images, the app automatically generates and caches high quality preview thumbnails.

This functionality works seamlessly on both mobile and TV versions of the app, whether you are navigating with touch or using a TV remote D-pad.

Thank you and kind regards

Good Day Community,

A new feature has arrived that allows you to extract compressed archives directly into the current directory without needing to open them first.

When you select one or more archive files, you can now choose Extract here to unpack the contents right where they are.

On mobile phones and tablets, you will find the action inside the tools menu when you select an archive file.

On Android TV devices, the option appears directly on the selection bar at the bottom of the screen.

Tap or select the option and the app will handle the rest.

If an archive is password protected, a dialog will ask for the password before unpacking begins.

In case any files in the archive share names with items already in the folder, a conflict menu will let you choose whether to overwrite, skip, keep both with auto renaming, or cancel, with an option to apply your choice to all remaining files.

This feature is available on both the mobile and TV versions of the app.

Thank you and kind regards