What is zenfile?

ZenFile is a free, open-source file manager for Android phones, built with Flutter. It is a fork of an earlier project called NFile, with significant additions on top. The visual style uses a glass-like transparency effect throughout the interface, giving it a polished look compared to the stock file manager that ships with most Android devices. The app covers the basics you would expect from a file manager: browsing folders, copying, cutting, pasting, renaming, and deleting files. Beyond that, it includes a built-in media player that handles video and audio, an image viewer with pinch-to-zoom, and a text editor for reading or editing plain text files, Markdown documents, JSON files, and basic code. There is also a quick-access category view that groups your photos, videos, and music using the phone's native media index, which makes browsing large libraries faster than scanning folders one by one. A notable feature is remote server browsing. You can connect to a server over FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, or SMB (which is the standard used for local network file shares), and the remote files appear in the same interface as your local files. The dual-pane mode lets you open two directories side by side and drag files between them, which is useful when moving content between your phone storage and a remote server. There is also a multi-tab view and an encrypted vault for storing sensitive files. The recent v1.0.2 update rebuilt the remote browser so it shares the same code as local browsing, which fixed several bugs where the local file list would disappear after navigating away from a remote connection. The update also added swipe gestures to switch between tabs and reduced the space taken up by navigation bars. To build from source, you need Flutter installed, then clone the repository, run the dependency install command, and run it on an Android device running API level 21 or higher. The project is released under the GNU GPL v3 license.