iPlugmate

Overall, the app is pretty good. It functions well for what it is. However, requiring the exFAT formatting handicaps those of us working with larger files. Has this happened to you? You get a nifty thumb drive that can stores 128GB and you’re excited because you can finally start moving those large files to and from your mobile device, but then you try to move a file larger than 4GB and you get a warning that it’s too large? That’s not the fault of storage space, it’s the fault of the drive format. ExFAT cannot handle files larger than that. The answer? Reformat the drive to NTFS. Now the drive can handle larger files. Great! There’s just one problem: The app will not recognize the drive! Why? Because it doesn’t recognize the format! The developers need to adjust for this. Why have a drive that can handle large files but only works with an app that can’t?

Ok so I was looking for a way of transferring files from my iPad to other iOS devices when airdrop options were not available. This app makes it possible. I am now able to airdrop music files not downloaded through the iTunes Store to other devices. I am a digital content creator and having the ability to transfer files as easily as a non iPad computer is really helpful. All music files have a directory so you can create playlists and cycle though your music and iPhoto’s and other files. This is like having a backup files app on your iOS if the native files app does not meet all of your needs. I am thrilled with the functionality of this app. And it works in iOS 12. 🙌🏻 would recommend this app for the workflow enthusiast who wants to work from iOS devices full time. 📱📲

Unless you want to rely totally on cloud backup and storage, working on an iPad can be frustrating. I got the RavPower iPlugmate with 64gb of memory and an SD card slot. I can now back up my photos and important docs to a 128gb SD card, and swap cards when the first one fills. As someone else mentioned, to back up other files, besides photos and videos, you use the share function from within the app that created or is managing the file, and, if you using the SD card version of an iPlugmate drive, you have to manually set the save path to your folder on the SD card...that is easy to do with a couple of taps. The app could be better, but most of limitations are iOS related. File App integration would be great, as would the ability to copy other files in bulk, as you can when copying photos. Still, this app and an iPlugmate drive open up all kinds of new possibilities for anyone using the iPad for serious work.

When I first got the drive/app it was very difficult and frustrating to figure out how to use. I soon discovered there is a very specific way to back up files from third party apps such as procreate - you have to go into the respective app, hit "share" and then copy it to iplugmate. That is the only way as far as I know. And you can only do one file at a time. This is among the very few flash drives that work with the ipad so I suppose I have no choice to put up with the bugginess. But I suppose having the flash drive and its compatibility exist in the first place outweighs the awkward UI. I'm just hoping these will be addressed soon because it has a lot of potential to be a really good app that a lot of creative professionals will want to use, primarily to store large files, like PSDs and videos. Bugs - whenever I try to rename a file, the dialogue shoots upwards off screen making it impossible to see what i'm writing Feature requests: - integration with files app - able to move files and folders within the app (holding and dragging) - ability to batch import/export - when uploading a file there is no option to save it as a separate copy, you can only save over the previous version

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If the files won't transfer to any of the gazillion apps already on my iPad, what good is it? It lists a bunch of players that I don't have or want because the file management apps I use already have all the players and viewers I need. This app is suppose to support the HooToo USB external thumb drive. So my expectation is that it works like any other USB thumb drive, except that this thumb drive plugs into a mobile device with the purpose of transferring supported files, from the drive to the iPad local drive in a location I can access either by some import function or a file management/reader app on my iPad using the "Open in...." feature. The only thing that transfers is images to the built-in iOS Photos app, which I hardly use. I keep wasting more time trying to find workarounds for the file transfer issue than if I'd have run upstairs to my Mac and fired up a browser to do a wifi transfer using GoodReader, Phone Drive, or any of a dozen other apps that have no problem transferring just about any file format that is supported by iOS...pdf, html, rtf, doc, css, mp3, pptx, or whatever. So, again I ask, what good is a USB file transfer drive if it doesn't even transfer files? And only reads or plays files in reader and player apps that are not on any of my devices, nor do I want to buy them, or have them taking up precious storage space on my devices? Yup! Just short of useless, by a hair.