Macworld - USA (2020-03)

64 MACWORLD MARCH 2020

iOSCENTRAL

IMAGE: READDLE

FILE MANAGEMENT APP

DOCUMENTS 7: FREE

iOS FILE MANAGER

PUTS APPLE’S FILES

APP TO SHAME

BY J.R. BOOKWALTER

It took Apple nearly a decade

to bring proper file

management to the iPhone

and iPad with the arrival of

the Files app in iOS 11. Over the same

period of time, an enterprising third-party

developer based in Odessa, Ukraine, was

busy refining its own file manager app,

which outshines Apple’s in almost every

conceivable way.

Documents 7 (go.macworld.com/dcm7)

is the latest incarnation of the versatile iOS

utility that started as clever web app

ReaddleDocs, named for the up-and-

coming startup who created it. The mobile