Fast Media Sorter - Product Overview
Fast Media Sorter is a high-performance, privacy-first multimedia organizer, universal media player, and desktop environment designed for Android phones, tablets, TVs, Wear OS smartwatches, and OpenXR VR headsets.
Fast Media Sorter is built on eight pillars, in this order: device shell, media player, live streams, app launching, a replacement for stock apps, a companion on the watch, device monitoring and a full file manager.
What is Fast Media Sorter?
Traditional mobile gallery and file manager apps are built for casual viewing. When dealing with thousands of photos, gigabytes of lossless music, sprawling video libraries, network storage (NAS), and cloud drives, standard tools become sluggish and cumbersome.
Fast Media Sorter is engineered from the ground up to solve this:
Supported Platforms & Form Factors
Fast Media Sorter adapts its UI and input handling to each specific form factor:
| Platform | Optimizations & Key Features | Guides |
|---|---|---|
| Android Smartphones & Tablets | Touch gestures, multi-window split-screen, foldables, edge quick-access panel, PIP video, photo editor, OCR & translation. | Setup, Browsing |
| Android TV & Media Boxes | Complete D-Pad / remote control support, high contrast large-screen UI, live stream catalog, Chromecast casting receiver/sender. | TV & D-Pad Guide |
| Wear OS Smartwatches | Standalone music & streams playback, watch file manager, tiles, complications, flashlight, SOS, health & step metrics. | Watch Suite |
| Meta Quest & OpenXR VR | Curved spatial cinema, 3D SBS/OU, 180° and 360° hemispherical video, room passthrough, controller and hand tracking. | VR Guide |
The Seven Editions (Flavors)
To comply with different distribution channels (Google Play, F-Droid, Meta Horizon Store, legacy Android devices) while providing maximal capabilities, Fast Media Sorter is published in 7 distinct editions:
Detailed edition matrix and side-by-side feature comparison: Read Editions, Extensions & Languages Guide →
Core Subsystems & 22 Thematic Cookbook Chapters
The documentation corpus consists of 105 in-depth recipes across 22 thematic areas. Here is how the system is structured:
Quick Start Guide in 3 Steps
Step 1: Welcome Setup Wizard
On initial launch, Fast Media Sorter detects your device hardware (smartphone, TV box, tablet, or car unit) and recommends an optimized preset. Choose your preferred language, theme, and grant storage permissions.
Step-by-step Setup Walkthrough →Step 2: Add Sources & Destination Targets
Select which local folders, SD cards, SMB network shares, or cloud storage accounts to monitor. Configure your Quick Sort destination buttons (e.g. Favorites, Work, Archive, To Review).
Configuring Sources & Destinations →Step 3: Browse, Play & One-Tap Sort
Swipe through media with full gesture controls. When organizing, tap a destination icon or press a remapped key to instantly move or copy the current item and advance to the next file.
File Operations & Sorting Guide →Where to Go Next
Explore the full documentation using any of the available discovery mechanisms: