Files by Google

9.12M reviews
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Rated for 3+
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About this app

✨ Free up space on your device with cleaning recommendations
🔍 Find files faster with search and simple browsing
↔️ Quickly share files offline with Quick Share
☁️ Back up files to the cloud to save space on your device
🔒 Secure your files with a non-device lock

Free up space
Easily see how much space is left on your device, SD card and USB drive. Free up space by finding old photos from chat apps, duplicate files, clearing cache, and more.

Find files faster
Save time looking for photos, videos, and documents on your phone. Search quickly or browse your GIFs or share that video you downloaded recently. Sort files by size to understand what’s taking up space.

Fast & secure file sharing
Share photos, videos, apps, and more to Android and Chromebook devices around you with Quick Share. Files transfer quickly, with speeds up to 480 Mbps, even without an internet connection. Transfers are private and secured with end-to-end encryption.

Secure your files
Keep your sensitive files safe with a PIN or pattern that can be different from your device lock.

Play offline media
Listen to your music or watch your videos with advanced controls like playback speed, shuffle, and more.

Back up files
Move your files to Google Drive or an SD card to save space on your device. You can also share to other cloud storage apps on your device.

Get smart recommendations
Get helpful suggestions to save space, protect your device, and more. Your recommendations get smarter the more you use the app.

It’s efficient and effective
The Files by Google app uses less than 20 MB of storage on your device, it’s easy to use, and has no ads.
Clean up your phone, find files, play media, and share files offline
Updated on
Nov 9, 2026

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
  • No data shared with third parties
    Learn more about how developers declare sharing
  • This app may collect these data types
    Personal info, App activity and 2 others
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • Data can’t be deleted
  • Independent security review

Ratings and reviews

8.85M reviews
Bryant Reitzel
June 27, 2025
Pretty good overall for most things. Not very good for playing music. It can only play a few file types, it works bad with too many folders and files, and has a bad shuffle and playlist integration. Good for most things and for clearing unnecessary device storage.
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Doa Mac
September 1, 2026
Well whatever upgrade you did with this last update made file manager useless. I can no longer search for files by file name. plus you took away the side menu with recent files or access to other sections and folders. I can't even search for those sections in your so called search bar at the top! It's now so much harder to organize and search for files than ever!
75 people found this review helpful
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Google LLC
September 2, 2026
Hi Doa. Please follow the steps listed in this help center article for searching files: https://goo.gle/3ouDaS2. Hope this helps. Thanks for using Files by Google!
Gregory Martz (Greg)
August 13, 2026
Used this app for many years, now all the sudden it doesn't work at all on a Samsung s26 phone when it did for at least one year. it's been like that for months and even doing things like uninstalling / reinstalling the app will not fix it. Can no longer use this app because for some reason they have a glitch that won't work on certain phones. That is quite a shame that the app is broken like that now.
41 people found this review helpful
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Google LLC
August 13, 2026
Hi Gregory. We are sorry to hear about your experience. Please send us in app feedback by following these steps: Open Files by Google app - On the top left, tap on the three-line menu - Tap on Help & Feedback - Tap on Send Feedback - Please select System logs at the bottom, for us to investigate further. Appreciate your patience!

What’s new

- UI enhancements for better user experience
- Bug fixes