APFS read & write for Android

Your Mac drive, on your phone

Plug in a USB stick, an external SSD or a hard drive your Mac formatted, and it shows up in the Files app you already use. Watch a movie from your Mac backup drive, pull photos off a stick from the office iMac, grab a document a friend saved on their MacBook. ApfsForge adds the drive to Android itself, so your gallery, video player, PDF reader and office apps open files straight from it, with nothing to copy first.

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No root
No ads
No account
Nothing uploaded
One-time Pro
No subscription

Reads

Your drive, right in the Files app

Flash drives, external SSDs and hard drives, and SD cards in a USB card reader.

Format	Where you find it	Writing
APFS	The format of every Mac today, which Android can't open on its own	ProSave, edit, rename, move and delete; format a drive as APFS
HFS+	Mac OS Extended: older Macs and many external drives	ProSave, edit, rename, move and delete; format a drive as HFS+
exFAT	Most USB sticks, SD cards and cameras	FreeAdd, edit, rename, move and delete; reformat a drive as exFAT
FAT32, FAT	Older sticks, cards and cameras	FreeAdd, edit, rename, move and delete

What it does

Free to read. Pro is one purchase.

Android phones can't write to Mac drives. Pro can, with no subscription, on every drive you connect.

Free Everyone

Browse, search and open everything on the drive
Open photos, videos, music and documents straight from the drive, in any app that uses Android's file picker
Copy files and folders to your phone
Full writing on exFAT and FAT drives: add, edit, rename, move and delete
Reformat a drive as exFAT, so it works on phones, Windows and Mac alike
Eject the drive cleanly before you unplug it

Pro Pay once, keep it

Save, edit, rename, move and delete files and folders on APFS and HFS+ drives
Format a drive as APFS or HFS+, ready for a Mac
One purchase covers every drive you connect. No subscription, ever

Built with care for your data

Read-only until you turn writing on

Every drive starts read-only. Writing turns on only when you ask, drive by drive
Write-protected drives stay read-only, and so do HFS+ drives a Mac didn't close properly, until a Mac has checked them with First Aid
Encrypted APFS volumes don't open
Files macOS compressed can't be changed, and some of them can't be opened
Formatting shows the drive's name and size, warns that everything on it will be erased, and waits for your confirmation. Real progress, and the result is checked
Back up anything you can't lose before writing to a drive

Private

Your files stay yours

Everything happens on your phone, and nothing from your drives ever leaves it. No account, no analytics, no tracking. The app goes online only for Google Play's purchase and rating sheet, and for a feedback message when you choose to send one. Android asks you to allow USB access for each drive.

The details are in the privacy policy.

What you need

Before you start

Android 10 or newer with USB OTG (most phones have it), plus an adapter or cable if the drive's plug doesn't fit
For microSD cards, a USB card reader; the phone's own card slot isn't used

Questions? See Support.

Plug in your drive and open it like any folder.

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