Quick Product Tour

The Standard edition is on Google Play, like any other app - search for FastMediaSorter or open its store listing directly and tap Install.

The other editions - noLegal, VR, Lite, Photos and Legacy - carry features a store will not list, so they are not sold there. You install one of these by downloading its APK file directly, either from the project's GitHub Releases page or from the IzzyOnDroid repository, and opening it. Android meets a package it has not seen installed from a store before and shows a one-time warning about it; that warning is about how many times Android has seen the file's signature, not about anything found inside it. Why Android warns about this APK, and exactly what to tap walks through both screens.

Launching the app opens on its own startup splash instead of a bare window: the four-arrow logo arrives in the same blue as the launcher icon, growing into place rather than fading, with the app name and the line "..All mine, here!" beneath it, in the language of your device.

Underneath the logo, the current time counts by the second, in your device's own 12- or 24-hour style and time zone - so it reads exactly like your system clock, not like a stopwatch the app started on its own. The splash lasts exactly as long as the app takes to start: if it is ready sooner, the splash is gone sooner, and it disappears together with the clock the moment the app opens. On a first launch that goes straight to the welcome wizard, this splash is skipped - there is nothing yet to jump ahead of.

A few things happen while that splash is up, or right after it, that you notice as an absence of problems rather than as a feature: the first thumbnail grid does not stall, because the image loader is built on a background thread instead of on the main thread during your first photo load. The app itself does not stall either, because its file-transfer preferences open on first use instead of while the main screen is still being built.

And on a completely fresh install, the built-in collections on the main screen - All Music, All Videos, All Images, Camera Photos and Recent Media - already show their real file counts instead of a row of zeros. FastMediaSorter fills those virtual resource counts in on its own, in the background, at startup, so you do not have to open each one or run a manual rescan just to find out there is anything in it.

Page 1 of the welcome wizard pitches FastMediaSorter as a handful of roles rather than a feature list, and this documentation site is organized the same way. Once you have looked around the main screen, here is where each role's own recipes live:

• File manager - browsing, sorting and file operations start at grid and list views and copy, move and delete.
• Player - photos and GIFs in the image viewer, video in playback controls, and music in playing and organizing.
• Any source - local, network and cloud folders start at storage sources setup and Windows network shares.
• Streams, on the editions that carry it - begins at the channel catalog.
• More - the desktop launcher, the watch app, the VR headset, and the full Settings map all branch off from here, alongside the seven editions compared.

If you run Fast Media Sorter & Sharing for Windows on the same network, you do not have to type in a server address by hand: scan its QR code, or open the .fmscfg file it hands you, and FastMediaSorter adds those PC folders as SFTP resources in one step.

Import the same file again later - say, after sharing one more folder on the PC - and it does not create duplicates. It recognizes a resource it already has by its server and folder path and updates that one instead, then shows a short toast telling you what happened: "Added: " or "Updated: " when exactly one resource changed, a combined count when several did, or "Resources already up to date" when nothing did.