FastMediaSorter v2 - Complete Feature List

Last updated: 2026-08-23

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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.