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FTP Server
Savy Soda Pty Ltd · 570 ratings · ★ 1.9
1.9
★★★★★
570 ratings
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Top complaints - extracted from 50 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
1
"work"
22 negative reviews mention this · 44% of all complaints
★★★★★ "None of the buttons work. I can't even turn it on because none of the buttons (including on/off) do anything when pressed." - agredon
2
"does"
14 negative reviews mention this · 28% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Junk. Does not work... Requires upgrade" - User314125
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"upgrade"
10 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "DOA. When started, there are two controls: a slider in the off position and a button labeled upgrade. Neither do anything." - Johninkyle
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"ipad"
10 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Totally Nothing......... This app is not working on my ipad mini running ios7. I cannot touch the on/off switch, even the upgrade button. I don't know why Apple Store is have this nothing app............" - Tien Loc
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"button"
9 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "DOA. When started, there are two controls: a slider in the off position and a button labeled upgrade. Neither do anything." - Johninkyle
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"doesn"
8 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Doesnt work. freezes at screen" - Uujbgujh
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"anything"
7 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "DOA. When started, there are two controls: a slider in the off position and a button labeled upgrade. Neither do anything." - Johninkyle
8
"nothing"
7 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Doesn't work. Does nothing IOS 8.1.1" - JavaOops
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"buttons"
6 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "None of the buttons work. I can't even turn it on because none of the buttons (including on/off) do anything when pressed." - agredon
10
"does work"
6 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Do You Not Test Your Apps?. Does NOT work with the iPad! You are not able to toggle the on/off button. The toggle button does work with iPhone 4, however. I have no need to use FTP on my iPhone; therefore, I didn't test it beyond that point." - BikerSurfDude
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"doesn work"
6 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
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"switch"
6 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Totally Nothing......... This app is not working on my ipad mini running ios7. I cannot touch the on/off switch, even the upgrade button. I don't know why Apple Store is have this nothing app............" - Tien Loc
📋 All 50 negative reviews
Every 1-2★ review we fetched. Use the copy button to grab them all for your own analysis (paste into ChatGPT/Claude with a prompt like "summarize core user problems, group by theme, ignore bugs, focus on missing features").
DOA
When started, there are two controls: a slider in the off position and a button labeled upgrade. Neither do anything.
None of the buttons work
I can't even turn it on because none of the buttons (including on/off) do anything when pressed.
Bricked app
This app is bricked. Can't do anything. Should be removed from the App Store.
Junk
Does not work... Requires upgrade
Doesnt work
freezes at screen
Doesn't work
Does nothing IOS 8.1.1
Totally unused
This is totally unused for me. After download i checked it is not right to use this. I uninstalled it.
Very bad
1 star is tooooo much
Totally Nothing........
This app is not working on my ipad mini running ios7. I cannot touch the on/off switch, even the upgrade button. I don't know why Apple Store is have this nothing app............
Ios6 ipad mini - didn't work... At all
Ios6 ipad mini - didn't work... At all
Absolute junk
Can't click on anything after opening the app. Not the on-off button, nor the upgrade button. Don't waste your time on this pathetic app.
(This is my first review ever, because this is how bad the app is.)
(This is my first review ever, because this is how bad the app is.)
Won't start
The server won't start at all
Don't bother.
It's a free app that does nothing until you pay to unlock it (which I did not fall for).
Doesn't even let me turn it on!
After reading so many negative reviews I decided to download anyway...it's horrible, don't download.
Extinct
App doesn't work anymore.
Zero stars...
...because it's crap. You can't test the free version because you need to upgrade to unlock the features. Don't download this.
Didn't work.
Couldn't ever get the service to start. Uninstalled.
Crap
Does not function.
FTP Server
Does not work at all, even the upgrade button fails to function!!!
Broken
It gives me the IP. But, refuses connections. Tried Filezilla (For the command line impaired) and also regular ftp. Both give "Connection refused". Has anyone tested this before release?
WASTE OF TIME
This app does not perform as promised in the description. DO NOT DOWNLOAD.
Fake Free
This installs and forces an upgrade or it literally does nothing.
No FTP vo menus -Nada.it just shows an upgrade button everything else is locked out! very big waste of time.
No FTP vo menus -Nada.it just shows an upgrade button everything else is locked out! very big waste of time.
Paw
What a pos. Can't even uninstall it.
Does not work
Can't flip the switch to "On"
Too bad
Unable to turn on the FTP switch on. Crap. They expect you to pay to turn on the switch. No online documentation. Uninstalled within 5 min
Switch
Could not "flip switch" to turn on no matter how many times I tried. Doesn't work, uninstalling...
Worked but...
I got it to finally work with a guest FTP account but the UI is awful. I appears to me that the tap points for all the buttons is way off. I played with it for a bit and finally figured out the offset and even at times, like delete, you have to have the iPad in portrait mode to touch the delete button circle, then rotate to landscape to tap the actual delete button.
On the options screen you have to tap way off to the right where you think you would normally tap.
Great concept but not at all in a workable form that I would actually use.
On the options screen you have to tap way off to the right where you think you would normally tap.
Great concept but not at all in a workable form that I would actually use.
Sucked.
Nuff said.
Dump
Downloaded it and it doesn't work.I can't visit the FTP site which the app showed me.
Doesn't work
Downloaded the free version but could not get the off switch to move to on. Deleted the app after several attempts.
Buttons
I tapped buttons countless times, and they didn't work. Deleting app immediately!
Useless!
After downloading the free version for my iPad it says to upgrade to unlock features. The only problem is you never get to they anything free because nothing works!
Piece of garbage app. Don't waste your time.
Piece of garbage app. Don't waste your time.
IPad 2 Fail
Buttons don't even work on ipad2! Total fail.
Does nothing on iPad
None of the buttons work on the iPad. Total failure
You have to upgrade to do anything...
To use this app, you have to upgrade to the paid version. The unpaid version does nothing. I don't know how this app was accepted into the app store because the only working button on the app screen is the upgrade button.
Does not work
Waste of time.
iPad
It Does not work, i can not switch the interrumptor.
Do You Not Test Your Apps?
Does NOT work with the iPad! You are not able to toggle the on/off button.
The toggle button does work with iPhone 4, however. I have no need to use FTP on my iPhone; therefore, I didn't test it beyond that point.
The toggle button does work with iPhone 4, however. I have no need to use FTP on my iPhone; therefore, I didn't test it beyond that point.
Hunh?
I'm fairly computer savvy, but I just don't get it. There's a reason this app gets an overwhelmingly poor review and it isn't because we're all idiots. I could see files but couldn't open them. Paltry, insultingly non-existent "documentation," -- jeez, dudes...fix the damn thing.
Couldn't Connect
I tried to use this but couldn't get any FTP clients to connect. I am technically inclined so I don't think I was at fault here, FTP isn't rocket science.
BUMMER
BUMMER
Bad docs
Horrible online documentation
iOS4
It won't connect on 4.0
this is an app?
the only thing it would permit me to do was to upgrade the app for 99 cents.
Doesn't work
I got the server to come up on my computer but said there was no space available.
No software needed
This app does not need safari if you have windows xp. Go to my network places and type the address there, and you can simply drag and drop.
Blahhh!
This web browser dosent even connect to FTP sites! I'll stick to safari for sure!
Flaky
Hangs often. Seems like a USB stick. I wish I am able to access my photos and videos via a tool like this.
Functionally Good. Lacks information
FTP works well. Just remember to punch a hole in your computers firewall and it connects quickly and easily. It also auto resumes well without any issues. A bonus is that the server multitasks well with other apps.
The server however lacks any kind of countdown or information and relies on the sending computer to give you any info on file transfers. The server doesn't even tell you when a program is done sending.
In that way, think of it as a wireless thumb drive that uses the FTP protocol than a true FTP server.
Also, I've noticed that some of the buttons are either not responsive, or not being used. For that matter I'm not sure if the Save or Move buttons actually do anything. This app needs to have better docs.
Before I purchase it, I would really like to see a % of file transfer done indicator, minimum. Better response to the keys would be a bonus.
For my uses, I connected to a Windows computer using FileZilla FTP Client.
The server however lacks any kind of countdown or information and relies on the sending computer to give you any info on file transfers. The server doesn't even tell you when a program is done sending.
In that way, think of it as a wireless thumb drive that uses the FTP protocol than a true FTP server.
Also, I've noticed that some of the buttons are either not responsive, or not being used. For that matter I'm not sure if the Save or Move buttons actually do anything. This app needs to have better docs.
Before I purchase it, I would really like to see a % of file transfer done indicator, minimum. Better response to the keys would be a bonus.
For my uses, I connected to a Windows computer using FileZilla FTP Client.
Potential but not a finished product
I was able to get this to work on my iPad with a full-ftp client (not a browser). Transfer seemed to work great but once the file was on my iPad, the controls were less than desirable. I could tap on the action button to the left of the file name to try and delete the file which would activate the delete button on the right. I could not tap the delete button though. What I did find was that if I had the iPad in landscape, I could tape the right action items. If the iPad was in portrait, I could tape the left action items. I think this is due to short minded developers.
Works erratic
Have install it on my iPAD and used FilleZilla on my desktop to connect through WiFi. When started it generates the FTP host access name; in my case it is "ftp://192.168.0.181:2121". In FileZilla enter this address in the field "Host"; username and password can remain empty; port is automatically assigned as "2121". These settings were enough to transfer very fast 20 files (PDF, JPG, DOC & DWG (ACAD) from the desktop to the iPAD.
However here ends the positive part.
Tapping on any of the new transferred files on the iPAD returned NO reaction. Accidentally I discovered that a reaction is triggered if you don't tap on the name itself but somewhere to the left of it, at the same line (level). Some JPG files, e.g. 2.5MB, opened fine, others 650kB didn't. The same PDF or JPG file may open in one moment but may crash in the next.
I have AutoCAD WS for iPAD and can open and amend DWG files transferred via Dropbox from my desktop. With WiFi FTP there is no option to select the application and open certain files!
Also after starting the headline of the application may change it's position randomly!
The developer should get his act together and make this app work reliably and intuitive instead of claiming to have developed the best WiFi app ever!!!
However here ends the positive part.
Tapping on any of the new transferred files on the iPAD returned NO reaction. Accidentally I discovered that a reaction is triggered if you don't tap on the name itself but somewhere to the left of it, at the same line (level). Some JPG files, e.g. 2.5MB, opened fine, others 650kB didn't. The same PDF or JPG file may open in one moment but may crash in the next.
I have AutoCAD WS for iPAD and can open and amend DWG files transferred via Dropbox from my desktop. With WiFi FTP there is no option to select the application and open certain files!
Also after starting the headline of the application may change it's position randomly!
The developer should get his act together and make this app work reliably and intuitive instead of claiming to have developed the best WiFi app ever!!!
Sentiment summary
18%
Positive (4-5★)
6%
Neutral (3★)
76%
Negative (1-2★)