FastMediaSorter v2 - Complete Feature List

Last updated: 2026-09-02

This document is the curated showcase of standout user-facing features. The complete developer inventory of every implemented capability lives in docs/ALL_FEATURES.jsonl.

Platform requirements: Android 8.0+ (API 26) for Standard flavor. The Legacy flavor extends support down to Android 6.0+ (API 23) covering the same features. The Lite flavor is local-files-only, with no network sources (SMB/FTP/SFTP) or cloud drives. Supported devices: phones, tablets, Android TV boxes, and Android head units. Runs on Chrome OS via Google Play (ARC++).

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1. Replace network-drive setup tools

• Scan a code to open your PC’s folders [Standard / Photos / Legacy / VR]: Run the free Fast Media Sorter for Windows companion on your PC, choose shared folders, scan its QR code, and those folders appear on Android as ready-to-use resources with the server key pinned automatically. No IPs, ports, usernames, passwords, or manual SMB/SFTP setup. If the phone has no camera, import the same access from a tiny .fmscfg file, including Telegram/email attachments. See Open PC Folders by Scanning a Code.
• One app for local, NAS, SFTP, FTP, and cloud drives [Standard / VR]: Browse local folders, SMB/NAS shares, FTP/SFTP servers, and Google Drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive in one interface instead of splitting your library across separate apps.
• Share a configured resource with another device [Standard / VR]: Export a ready-to-use source, then import it on another device from a file, share sheet, or backup flow instead of re-entering the whole connection by hand.
• Share a resource as a QR code [Standard]: Hand an SFTP resource to another device by showing a QR code the recipient scans - no file transfer or manual re-entry.

2. Replace copy apps and duplicate cleaners

• Cross-protocol transfers [Standard / VR]: Copy or move files between Local, SMB, FTP, SFTP, and Cloud in any direction with background progress, speed, and ETA.
• Duplicate file finder [Standard / VR]: Find and remove identical files with a staged matcher (size -> partial hash -> SHA-256) for large photo, music, or download libraries.
• Soft delete with restore [Standard / VR]: Deleted files go to an app-managed trash snapshot first, so mistakes can be undone instead of becoming permanent immediately.

3. Replace capture, quick-launch, and send-out utilities

• Direct capture into the folder you actually use [Standard / VR]: Take photos, record voice notes, or capture video directly into local, network, or cloud destinations instead of first dumping everything into the camera roll.
• Screen capture, screen recording, and quick audio recording [Standard]: Launch screenshot, screen video, or audio recording from the app or an edge gesture, then stop it from a notification or the floating in-app indicator.
• Edge-gesture quick actions [Standard]: Turn the screen edges into instant shortcuts for capture, OCR-translate, recording, or opening the quick-launch panel/app.
• Unified “Send to..” hub [Standard / Lite / Photos / Legacy / VR / noLegal]: One command gathers Share, Telegram, email, Lens, Keep, print, and other enabled targets into a single clean list instead of scattering export actions across menus.
• Home-screen camera widget [Standard]: Add a launcher widget that opens capture directly, so a photo lands in your chosen folder in one tap without opening the app first.
• Every lens the device really has [Standard / Lite / Photos / Legacy / VR / noLegal]: Capture offers each physical lens, its true zoom floor including sub-1x, a working macro mode, and the sensor’s full resolution, while System info reports the whole camera layout so a problem can be diagnosed from the phone itself.
• Pick the shot before you take it [Standard / Lite / Photos / Legacy / VR / noLegal]: One button offers night, portrait, selfie, macro, and sport, listing only the scenarios your device can actually deliver and naming the active one.
• Send captures where you want them [Standard / Lite / Photos / Legacy / VR / noLegal]: Assign any local folder as the write destination for captures, screenshots, snapshots, and auto-downloads, separately from your browsing sources.

• Frame the shot the way it will save [Standard / Lite / Photos / Legacy / VR / noLegal]: Choose 4:3, 16:9, or full screen and the viewfinder itself changes, so the picture you see is the picture you get, and every lens keeps its own zoom and scenario for next time.

• Front flashlight [Standard / Lite / Photos / Legacy / VR / noLegal]: The screen itself becomes a lamp - it opens white at full brightness, a vertical swipe dims it, a corner button remembers another colour, and one tap closes it without touching your device brightness setting.

  4. Replace a basic file viewer with a sorting workstation

• Instant sorting panel [Standard / VR]: Keep up to 30 favorite destination folders in the player and sort the current file in one tap, with optional auto-advance to the next item.
• Open a file from another app and keep browsing nearby files [Standard / VR]: When another app hands off one file, continue with next, previous, random, or slideshow inside the same folder instead of getting stuck on a single item.
• File Manager Mode [Standard / VR]: Show hidden files and bypass media-only filters to handle mixed folders, archives, APKs, EXEs, and other non-media content.
• Move whole folders, not just files [Standard / Lite / Photos / Legacy / VR / noLegal]: Select subfolders the way you select files and copy or move them across protocols, and a transfer sent to the background stays on a tappable strip you can reopen.
• SD cards and plugged-in drives [Standard / Lite / Photos / Legacy / VR / noLegal]: Removable storage and mounted external drives appear as browsable sources instead of staying invisible.
• Reconnect a folder through the system chooser [Standard / Lite / Photos / Legacy / VR / noLegal]: A folder you added by typing its path can be reconnected through Android’s own folder window, keeping its name, place in the list, PIN, icon and favorites - and gaining the documents a typed path can never read.
• The app tells you what a folder cannot show [Standard / Lite / Photos / Legacy / VR / noLegal]: When a connection can only reach photos, video and audio, the list says so and points at the fix, instead of quietly leaving documents out of the count.

5. Replace several media viewers and editors

• Image viewer with real file actions [Standard / VR]: Crop, rotate, flip, adjust colors, speed-control GIFs, and export GIF frames without switching to a separate image utility.
• Video frame capture to any destination [Standard / VR]: Save a clean frame from video as PNG/JPG directly to local or network storage.
• 2D/360/VR playback in the sideload noLegal build [noLegal Only]: Play SBS/OU, VR180, and 360 content, or watch normal 2D files on a giant virtual screen in the OpenXR build.
• Controls that stay in the headset [noLegal Only]: A HUD strip carries a seek bar you drag with the controller ray plus the track, subtitle, and depth pickers that apply to the file, the thumbstick seeks and steps between files, and a legend lists every binding.
• Read PDFs by touch [Standard / Legacy / VR / noLegal]: Turn pages with a swipe, long-press to select the page’s own text without waiting for an OCR pass, and keep your zoom and framing through the turn.
• Animated WebP and APNG playback [Standard]: Short WebP and APNG animations now play in the image viewer instead of showing a single frozen frame.
• Rotate and edit in the separate window [Standard / Lite / Photos / Legacy / VR / noLegal]: Turn a picture either way and reach the editing commands from the standalone player window, not only from the main screen.
• Stereo video on the television [Standard / Lite / Photos / Legacy / noLegal]: Cast a side-by-side or over-under file and the TV shows one eye at full width instead of a squashed double picture.
• Subtitles the way you read them [Standard / Lite / Legacy / VR / noLegal]: Set the subtitle font, size, and colour in the windowed player instead of living with the default.

• Browse inside the headset [VR / noLegal]: Walk the library on a virtual screen, point with the controller ray, and start playback without taking the headset off.

• Your phone’s media on the watch [Wear OS]: Browse the paired phone’s folders and favourites as a grid with thumbnails, filter by media type, and open a file straight on the wrist.
• A real player on the watch [Wear OS]: Audio and video play on the watch with shuffle, bezel volume, a draggable position bar, paging controls, and a screen-off mode that keeps the sound going.
• The watch as a place to put files [Wear OS]: Add the paired watch as a resource beside local and cloud ones, copy or move files onto it from any phone screen, and receive what the watch sends back into a destination you choose, up to 32 MB per file.
• Rectangular tiles on the watch [Wear OS]: Every grid on the watch draws rectangular cells - a thumbnail fills its cell with no plate underneath, and an item without one shows its type glyph in a thin frame.

  6. Replace OCR, translation, and note extraction tools

• Offline OCR and offline translation [Standard / VR]: Extract text from images and PDFs, then translate it locally without sending content to a cloud OCR service.
• Photo-to-text and screenshot-to-translation flow [Standard / VR]: Capture, crop, recognize, translate, and save the result as editable text in one flow.
• In-place text and Markdown editing on remote storage [Standard / VR]: Edit .txt and .md files directly on local or network resources, with Markdown rendering and auto-save.

7. Replace separate stream and radio apps

• Dedicated Internet Streams screen [Standard / Legacy / VR / noLegal]: Store internet radio, video streams, and RTSP sources in a proper library instead of juggling links in a browser or notes app.
• Inline radio playback with live ICY metadata [Standard / Legacy / VR / noLegal]: Play audio streams directly in the list while keeping the station catalog visible.
• Pinned streams on the main window [Standard / Legacy / VR / noLegal]: Put favorite live channels directly above the resource list for one-tap access from the home screen of the app.
• Smarter stream playback [Standard / Legacy / VR / noLegal]: Streams step down to a lighter quality automatically when the connection keeps stalling, and the frame you were watching becomes the channel’s thumbnail.
• See what is on air right now [Standard / Legacy / VR / noLegal]: Radio shows the artist and title, video channels show the programme currently broadcasting, and both reach the notification and the lock screen.
• Find a channel without scrolling [Standard / Legacy / VR / noLegal]: Filter by topic alongside category, language, and country, recognise a video channel from a downloadable preview atlas before the first watch, fall back to the station logo where no preview exists, and keep pinned channels in their own collapsible section.
• Radio picks itself back up [Standard / Legacy / VR / noLegal]: A station that was playing when you closed the app starts again on the next launch.
• Each channel remembers its tracks [Standard / Legacy / VR / noLegal]: Pick an audio track or subtitles once and that channel opens the same way next time, with a default audio and subtitle language for every other stream.
• Thousands of channels out of the box [Standard / Lite / Legacy / VR / noLegal]: Community radio and webcams from around the world arrive as a ready catalog, sorted into translated rubrics instead of a flat list of links.
• About this channel [Standard / Legacy / VR / noLegal]: Open a card with the station’s description, artwork, and stream details before deciding to listen.
• Start a stream without opening the list [Standard / Legacy / VR / noLegal]: A stream shortcut on the home screen begins playback in the background, no channel screen in the way.

• Live streams on Wear OS [Wear OS]: The watch app now plays live radio and video streams straight from its own channel list, over the watch’s own network, with no phone nearby.

• Stream widget on the home screen [Standard / Legacy / VR / noLegal]: Start a channel straight from the home screen without opening the app first.

  8. Replace setup migration and utility clutter

• Unified settings backup and restore [Standard / VR]: Back up sources, favorites, schedules, passwords, and sign-ins to a local file or Google Drive, then restore the whole setup after reinstalling or moving devices.
• App panel for apps, tools, and internal actions [Standard]: Build a quick-launch panel that mixes Android apps, system shortcuts, captures, OCR tools, streams, and chosen resources in one place.
• Hidden bonus mini-game [Standard / Lite / Photos / Legacy / VR / noLegal]: A built-in turn-based puzzle for anyone who likes finding unexpected extras in utility apps.
• Thirteen interface languages [Standard / Lite / Photos / Legacy / VR / noLegal]: The interface speaks thirteen languages, picked per app without changing the whole device.
• See what the app connects to [Standard / noLegal]: A network monitor lists the app’s own connections, so a stalled transfer or stream is traceable instead of guesswork.
• Screen rotation switch on Wear OS [Wear OS]: The watch app now has its own screen-rotation switch, so you can stop the watch screen from turning with your wrist without changing any system setting.

• Accessibility Service quick disable before banking [noLegal]: 1-tap disabling of Accessibility Service from Settings, Android Quick Settings Tile, or 1x1 homescreen AppWidget for safe banking app execution.

• Mini-programs on the watch [Wear OS]: The calculator, the network monitor and the mini-game each get their own watch screen, so the wrist is not just a remote.
• System information as a program [Standard / Lite / Photos / Legacy / VR / noLegal]: The full device report sits in the programs menu instead of behind Settings, and the watch has its own screen for it.

  9. Replace your home-screen launcher

• Use the app as your home screen [Standard / noLegal]: Launcher mode turns FastMediaSorter into the device home screen, with resizable gadgets, a working clock, and a labeled scrollable app grid.
• Make the desktop yours [Standard / noLegal]: Choose the branded waves-and-particles animation, a flat empty surface, or a picture of your own including an animated GIF, cropped to fill the screen.
• Weather without a location permission [Standard / noLegal]: A desktop gadget shows current conditions for a place you name, using keyless Open-Meteo data instead of your device location.
• App quick actions on the desktop [Standard / noLegal]: Long-press an installed app to list the shortcuts it publishes and start the one you want directly.
• Edit the desktop, then lock it [Standard / noLegal]: Long-press empty space to rearrange things, and switch on a lock so a finished desktop survives accidental taps.
• Widgets and your own status area [Standard / noLegal]: Place the app’s home-screen widgets onto the launcher desktop, and choose whether Android’s status bar stays or the launcher shows its own clock and indicators.
• Pin a person, not a permission [Standard / noLegal]: A contact cell opens that person in the system contacts app without granting a contacts permission - grant it only if you want their name and photo on the cell.
• Interactive Google Maps live frame [Standard / noLegal]: Place a fully interactive Google Maps live frame widget on the launcher desktop with gesture-driven panning and zooming.
• Everything you pinned, in one place [Standard / noLegal]: Shortcuts other apps pin land on the launcher desktop, each with the full action menu behind a long press.
• Taskbar along the edge you prefer [Standard / noLegal]: Keep the launcher taskbar at the bottom or move it to the top edge, and the desktop lays itself out around it.
• Technical and sensor gadgets [Standard / noLegal]: Put clock, sensors, signal strength, and a current-position map straight on the desktop, alongside a Now Playing cell that follows whichever app is playing.
• Every installed app on one screen [Standard / noLegal]: A full-screen list of everything installed, reachable from the desktop without a drawer hunt.
• Idle dimming and blackout mode [Standard / noLegal]: The launcher dims 4 seconds before screen timeout and pauses animated wallpapers and widgets to save power, resuming on any touch.
• Search the web and switch radios from the desktop [Standard / noLegal]: Type a query and it opens in the browser, and the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth tiles turn the radios on or off in place.
• Other apps’ notifications on the desktop [Standard / noLegal]: The launcher top bar shows what other apps are reporting, and the Active signals panel lets you dismiss them without leaving the desktop.
• See the wallpaper through your gadgets [Standard / noLegal]: Desktop cells draw anywhere from fully transparent to an opaque card, and edit mode always shows the full card so a cell stays easy to grab.