A library that stays tidy without you sorting it.
Real folders, visible in the Files app, with a media library layered on top.
- Create, rename, move, compress and delete, with multi-select on iPad and Mac.
- Favourites and playlists survive renaming, because rows are tracked by identity.
- Per-folder iCloud backup control, so films do not eat your quota.
FoxDL The Files app is a file browser, not a library. It has no idea that four of those folders are one series, that you were 41 minutes into the third episode, or that the file you renamed last week is the one in two of your playlists.
A media library that sits on top of ordinary folders gets both: files you can still see, move and copy out through the Files app, and a library that keeps track of what they are.
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Questions people ask about this
What can the file manager actually do?
Create folders, rename, move, multi-select, compress and delete — plus open PDFs, Office documents and photos in place, and pull the audio out of a video. Favorites, playlists and recently played sit on top, and they survive renaming or moving the underlying file.
Read the guideWhere are my files stored, and can I see them in the Files app?
Everything you add lives in FoxDL’s own Documents folder, which appears in the Files app on iPhone and iPad and in Finder on the Mac. You can move files out at any time. Thumbnails and working data sit in cache folders instead, so they never clutter what you see.
Read the guideCan FoxDL zip and unzip files?
Yes. Select one or more files and compress them into a ZIP from the file menu, and open archives you receive to extract their contents into your library. Both work on iPhone, iPad and Mac, and the archive stays a normal file you can share on.
Read the guideHow do I extract the audio from a video?
Open the file menu on a video and choose to convert it to audio. FoxDL pulls the audio stream out into its own file — useful for lectures, podcasts and music videos you would rather listen to. Free use is metered: 2 passes on iPhone and iPad, 1 a day on the Mac.
Read the guideCan I play from an external drive or another app’s folder?
Yes. Bookmark a folder on a connected drive, an SD card or another app’s storage, and FoxDL browses and plays from it in place — no copying, no doubling your storage. The bookmark survives restarts, so the folder is there next time the drive is.
Read the guideCan I control what goes into my iCloud backup?
Yes, folder by folder. Each top-level folder in your library can be included in or excluded from the device backup, so a large video folder does not consume the iCloud quota you would rather keep for photos. The rules are re-applied after every library scan.
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