AndFTP (your FTP client)

Donny

Excellent FTP app. It works great. As a wildlife photographer, it's so convenient to be able to send a batch of photos and receive batches of photos from my FTP server. One funny thing I've noticed in other reviews is that people comment about the "dated" interface. Uh, hello? It's FTP! That's basically how FTP is expected to look. If you ever ran an FTP before in a browser, it looks pretty basic and text-ish. I actually find this app to work great and the interface is beautiful for an FTP.

A Google user

A nice light-weight app for doing exactly what I need it to do. It connects to my Synology SFTP server and mirrors the files to the SD Card. I was able to set up a one-way mirror in the free version. If sync is still limited to the pro version, that might mean two-way synchronizations. If you have file names with foreign characters be sure to change the character set in the advanced settings to UTF-8 (or whatever character set you need). Otherwise this app will silently change your filenames to fit within the specified character set. It does not warn you first. The scheduled synchronization feature will suffice. I would prefer an option to trigger synchronization when it gets plugged in for charging.

A Google user

the app worked wonderfully for what I wanted to use it for, transferring files to a Homebrew 3ds, but after I started using it I began to get weird pop-ups on my phone that said they were clearing up space on my phone or optimizing battery without any input from myself, and all of them contained an ad for Google Fi. The app is wonderful, but as these pop-ups went away when I uninstalled the program and rebooted my phone, I'm afraid I can't really trust it.

A Google user

It works, it's intuitive, and it supports batch transfers, but that's about all I can say for it. It sends a LOT of unnecessary commands to the server (CWD before every transfer I can maybe excuse, but LIST after every file while doing a batch upload? Really?) and it's appallingly slow. During large batch uploads, there are big gaps between files as if it's iterating O(n) over every file it's already sent. This can get up to multiple seconds with 100 files or so.

A Google user

The app is very good for single file transfers, but is awful for any bulk transfers, as any small error in your connection will stop the entire queue, which is inevitable on a device that can't have a wired connection. There is no resume/auto resume feature for uploads and if the connection is broken you have to back all the way out and reconnect manually. FTPS support is also very poor and has trouble connecting to my server which I haven't had a problem with any other ftp client.

A Google user

I would love to rate it 5 star. However, I cannot do so because this app just is not reliable for multi-file transfers. Let's see. At relatively random moments, such as when android screen blinks, screen orientation changes or some such, the bulk transfer becomes STUCK. At this point there is no button to make it unstuck, re-continue etc. all I get is a stuck andftp window. There is no working CANCEL or RECONNECT button. And I have to kill andftp and start again. Today, for example, andftp became stuck simply because I laid the phone on my wireless charger. I fully gave up on using FTP protocol and use SCP, which made it better because it eliminated FTP command channel timeouts. However, even with SCP, the app becomes stuck and unusable for completely spurious reasons like screen changes.

A Google user

Generally works as expected. BUT the "screen rotation kills connection" bug is brutal. It's bad enough I'm tempted to use something else even though I bought the AndFTP Pro option. Also, any loss of connection causes the app to get stuck in a useless state and requires reopening it, thus losing your place in the app, selections, etc. Suggestions: * better "resume" functionality. I can't tell if AndFTP is trying to resume a partial file (good) or overwrite a complete file (bad). * "download/upload + delete on success", a la WinSCP would be great. Especially since AndFTP clears selections after transferring Ughhhh, WHILE I was typing this review AndFTP crapped out for an unknown reason and will require a restart. Boo!

Geoff Smith

This app is the best tool I have found to quickly upload individual files to a server. I just love fact that I can just share any file to AndFTP and it automatically uploads it -- this one small feature saves me a lot of time. The only mark against it is that it does not handle TLS session resumption, leaving a small security hole.

Dan P.

I used this for a long time and had no complaints. However, since upgrading my server to a more recent OpenSSH version, this app no longer works. The problem is that it uses RSA and DSS keys, but these are no longer supported by OpenSSH due to security concerns. Therefore, I can no longer recommend it. I've switched to a different SFTP client, which works fine.

A Google user

My favorite FTP client app. Using it exclusively for 5+ years. Can reliably download and upload folders recursively. I love it. Recently I had some issues after the latest update. The developer was super helpful and we could solve the issue very quickly. Thank you. I also recommend the "AndFTP Pro Version" with SYNC feature and ad-free. Two thumbs up.