This analysis describes version 9.6.60050 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-18 . The app may have changed since.

The store lists the version as varying by device, updated 2026-10-13.

Preview

Store screenshots supplied by the developer.

About this app

Are your photos, videos, music, and documents important to you? Of course, they are! That’s why we have developed and supported File Commander for almost 20 years! Our powerful file manager and explorer was created to organize, protect and hide, and help you take full control over your local, cloud, and network files.

Fully optimized for Android 13, with File Commander, you also receive 5GB Free cloud storage on MobiDrive alongside the multiple file management and security features - Vault to hide & encrypt, Recycle Bin, Storage Analyzer, File Converter. The File Commander version for TVs lets you control your Android TV’s memory with user-friendly file management features.

Have you ever wanted to make valuable photos, videos, and documents truly invisible to anyone but you?…

From the developer’s store description.

For developers and the curious

The full report

The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.

Findings and evidence

1 published · 2 shown, not confirmed

Positives 1

Specific evidence of a useful property, within the stated scope.

Developer says data deletion can be requested

Measured

The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text

Sources: The store listing
Agreement: A measured fact from one deterministic, checkable source.
Where measured: From the Google Play listing

Definition

The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.

Open evidence

One source only — shown, not confirmed 2

Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.

Aggressive ad load

One source only

Aggressive ad load: raised by 12 distinct reviewers (2.7% of 447 reviews scanned)

Sources: User reviews
Agreement: Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured: From Google Play reviews

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.

Open evidence

Tracking and data collection concerns

One source only

The app requests QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES, which lets the app enumerate every other app installed on the device.

Sources: The app manifest
Agreement: Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured: Found in the Android app’s package

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

The app ships session-recording or a wide tracking stack, holds permissions that read personal data, or is reported by users to sell, leak or over-collect it. The evidence line says which of those was observed.

Package artefact

sha256:51c791490bda46a49b5d21def93f8145dbe92093cdf77637af56be06210dddcc

Nothing was published as a thing to watch for in this assessment. That is not a finding that nothing is wrong with the app.

What reviewers report

447 reviews read · 1 review-based observation

447 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.

Aggressive ad load

Shown, not confirmed

really like it but too many ads and the price is too high and it's always buy the annual subscription and it's a good price ... I get it but we don't have and sometimes don't want to give you a year of money and after 3 months you don't…
2★ · Google Play · 2026-07-21

Subscription junk - stay away - free version is so full of ads its useless.
1★ · Google Play · 2026-09-10

Too many ads. Collects financial data and personal data. Doesn't work as expected.
1★ · Google Play · 2026-06-18

A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.

Measurements

8 measured · 0 not assessed

Supporting measurements. They are not a complete list of possible harms or positives. “Not assessed” means we could not measure it — never zero, never a pass.

From store data and reviews

Developer replies to reviews

Replies to at least 1 review in 20

Price in the store description

States no price and billing period

Cancelling, in the store description

Does not say how to cancel

Themes reported by reviewers

1 theme reported

Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.

Five-star share of ratings

65–79% five-star

Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.

In the app package we scanned

Android package 9.6.60050, scanned 17 Sep 2026. These describe that package, not the current store version.

Sensitive permissions

1–2 requested

Counted against a fixed list of eighteen sensitive Android permissions: sixteen runtime permissions, among them location, camera, microphone, contacts and SMS, and two the user must switch on in system settings, drawing over other apps and usage access. Requesting one is not itself a finding.

Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package

1–2 found

Advertising SDKs in the scanned package

1–2 found

Counted as distinct SDKs in the package we scanned. One mediation bundle can contribute several, so this is not a count of advertisers.

Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured

Versions and dates analysed

Assessed 18 Oct 2026

This analysis describes version 9.6.60050 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-18 . The app may have changed since.

The store lists the version as varying by device, updated 2026-10-13.

Store update history

Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.

Google Play

Version varies by device · 2026-10-13

No release notes were provided for this version.

Version varies by device · 2025-07-31

No release notes were provided for this version.

Assessment record

Status: Automated analysis
App identifier: file-commander
Assessment date: 18 Oct 2026
Sources used: 6 independent signals: user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text, the app manifest, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure
Reviews read: 447
Package examined: Android · 9.6.60050 · scanned 17 Sep 2026
Measurement vocabulary: 1.4
Human inspection: Not completed

Assessed 2026-10-18 from 447 user reviews, the app's package, the store listing and its privacy label.

How this page was produced

Analyzed 2026-10-18 Version analyzed: 9.6.600506 independent signals447 reviews scannedConfidence: HighNot human-reviewedVocabulary v1.13Methodology v1.3

Signals run: user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text, the app manifest, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure.

Store facts

Google Play

What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.

Google Play

Store rating: 4.21 ★ · 920,213 ratings
Version: Varies by device
Updated: 13 Oct 2026
Price: Free · In-app purchases
Age rating: 4+
Size: Not supplied

Open in Google Play

Developer: MobiSystems
Category: Productivity
Listing price: Free · In-app purchases

Purchases the store lists

What this app sells

Google Play doesn’t publish per-purchase prices, so this list covers the other store only.

Method and limits

What this report can and cannot show

How the automated analysis works

This assessment is produced automatically. Six independent signals are read — user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text, the app manifest, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.

No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every subscription bills weekly; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.

There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.

Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.

Limits of this report

A package scan is static. It identifies code and text in one Android build. It does not measure a live ad session, test a deletion request, or count the steps needed to cancel.
Reviews keep their sample. A review-only charge shows distinct reviewers, the share and the sample size, and is published only once it clears that label’s published threshold. Calibration labels are machine-drafted and not yet confirmed by a person.
Not assessed is a state. It is never a zero and never a pass.
A missing label is not a clean bill of health. It means the evidence did not support one, not that the app is problem-free.

Not yet human-reviewed. A hands-on test can confirm or contradict a finding and adds its own measurements; it does not change a measurement row. Hands-on inspections are not yet open.

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