• File Viewers

    iFile allows you to view a number of file formats with specific viewers. All viewers - apart from the built-in movie player and iFile's music player - work in portrait and landscape mode.

    Movies

    The following movie formats are supported by iFile:

    • mov, mp4, mpv, m4v, 3gp

    Movie files get played using the iPhoneOS Multimedia Player. Output to TV is supported for Apple's TV cable.

    Music

    The following sound formats are supported by iFile:

    • aac, aiff, aif, aifc, amr, alac, caf, m4a, m4r, mp2, mp3, mpga, pcm, snd, wav, wma

    The music player has a user interface similiar to the one of the built-in iPod player. Album cover art will be read from m4a files directly or from a cover.jpg or folder.jpg contained in the associated folder of an audio file.

    It allows to play playlists in m3u format and files from a directory. It will even play files found with iFile's file search functionality.

    PDF

    For viewing PDF's a custom viewer is available in iFile that allows to go to next and previous page and to directly jump to a specific page by pressing the button in the upper left corner. This button displays the current page number and also the total number of pages. The viewer allows very large zoom scales.

    The associated alert form will allow you to enter a valid page number of the PDF document to display.

    With a single tap on the PDF document the viewer will hide the navigation and status bar. With a double tap the viewer will zoom in or out by factor 2.

    Text

    For viewing and editing text a specific view is used that uses a smaller font than the one used by a web view. This allows to better view source code files. The text viewer allows to read and write multiple text file types including HTML and property list (plist) files. Property list files are supported in XML and binary format. When text files contain tabulators, the tabulators will be replaced with spaces during reading and vice versa during writing. Otherwise, iPhoneOS' UITextView would just swallow the tabulators. The tabulator width can be set in iFile's preferences dialog. Text files are always read in with UTF-8 encoding. Only if this fails they get read with ISO-Latin encoding.

    With a tap on the viewer will hide the navigation and status bar. If you tap at the it will show the bars again. By pressing the you will be able to search for a text entered in the search field. The viewer will then scroll the visible area to the found text.

    Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, HTML

    As in Mobile Safari you can view Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint files, Apple Pages, Numbers and Keynote files and also any HTML files using the iPhoneOS Web View.

    With a single tap on the document the viewer will hide the navigation and tool bar.

    Images

    Images get displayed zoomed to 100% screen width with possibility to further zoom in. You can go to the next and previous image in the same folder as the current image. If you press the button, the current image will be added to the iPhone's camera roll.

    ZIP

    With the ZIP viewer you can view and use the content of a ZIP file. The viewer shows you all files including stored directory names. If you want to remove selected files from the ZIP, just press the button and confirm. To extract all files (nothing selected) or selected files, press the button and confirm.

    Debian Installer

    iFile can install Debian package files (deb) directly.