Hyper Browser exists for one job that no backup app does well: reconciling what is on your phone against what is in your cloud. Two file trees side by side, a gallery for looking at photos properly before you decide, and Google Drive mounted as a pane like any other folder. Move a keeper up to Drive, delete the local copy of something you never want backed up, and see both sides while you do it.
What it does
- Two independent file panes — local storage, SD card, USB, or Google Drive in either pane.
- Copy, move and delete across panes, including local ↔ Drive in both directions.
- Built-in gallery with three zoom stages, so you can actually judge a photo before deleting it.
- Create folders anywhere, including on Drive.
- Light, inverted and hacker themes.
- No account required for local browsing. No ads, no analytics, no telemetry.
Download
Hyper Browser is distributed as a direct APK while Google Drive verification is in progress.
Download the APKAndroid will ask you to allow installs from your browser or file manager the first time. Play Protect also warns about apps installed outside the Play Store; that is normal for a sideloaded app.
Google Drive access
Hyper Browser requests the https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive scope. That is the
broadest Drive scope Google offers, and the app asks for it because the app is a file manager: it
has to list, open, create, move and delete any file or folder you point it at, including
files that existed on your Drive long before you installed it. Narrower scopes such as
drive.file only expose files the app itself created, which cannot back a browsable
file tree.
Your Drive is contacted directly from your device. The developer operates no server, and no file content, file name or account detail is ever sent anywhere other than Google's own API. See the privacy policy for the full disclosure.
Permissions
| Permission | Why |
|---|---|
| All files access | Browsing and moving files anywhere on the device. Android's folder picker cannot grant access to the internal storage root, and the media APIs only expose photos and videos, so neither can back a general file manager. |
| Photos, video and audio | Listings, grid thumbnails and the gallery viewer. |
| Internet and network state | Google Drive requests, and failing fast when offline. |
Support
Questions, bugs and feature requests: gregorydearth@gmail.com.