HTTPSmv

About HTTPSmv

HTTPSmv turns your phone into a file server that a computer can reach through its web browser. Start it, and the phone shows an address and a password; type them into a laptop on the same WiFi and the phone's storage is there in the browser, ready to look through.

Everything is drawn as a proper page rather than a file listing: folders and files with icons, sorting, search, thumbnails for pictures, and video that seeks properly instead of downloading whole before it plays. Drag files onto the page to send them the other way.

The connection is encrypted with TLS 1.3, and a password stands between anyone on the network and your files. Your files never go near the internet, no account is involved, and no company sees what you move. The app itself is free with ads: it uses the internet only to fetch the ads and to check the lifetime license that removes them.

Moving a file off a phone is something most people need to do far more often than they expect, and every other way of doing it is worse: a cable you have to find, a cloud account that takes your files somewhere else first, or Bluetooth, which is slow enough that you give up. Easy and convenient: it gets out of your way so you can get the transfer done. An incredibly useful app for what it does.

What it is for

Getting files off a phone is a small task that is annoyingly hard. A cable needs the right cable and a machine that recognises the phone. Cloud storage means uploading your files to somebody else's computer, waiting twice, and trusting them with the contents. Bluetooth is slow enough to be useless for video.

HTTPSmv is none of those. The phone and the computer are already on the same WiFi, so the file goes directly between them at the speed of the network. There is nothing to install on the computer -- it uses the browser that is already open -- and nothing to install on the phone beyond this app.

It is most useful for the things that are worst by other means: a folder of holiday photographs, a long video, a backup you want off the phone before you reset it, or a document you need on the laptop in the next thirty seconds.

Removing the ads

The app is free, and the ads are how it stays free: a banner along the bottom of the screen and, now and then, a full-screen picture or a short video, which you can skip after a few seconds.

A lifetime license removes them, all of them and for good. No banner, no full-screen pictures, no videos; once the app is licensed it does not even ask for an ad. It is one payment of $1.00, made with PayPal right here on GoodsAppStore, and there is nothing to renew. The license is for HTTPSmv; other apps that offer one have their own.

On the license page you enter the email you will use in the app, and pay with PayPal. A receipt is sent to that email.

Then, in the app, tap Remove ads on the banner and enter the same email. A 6-digit code is sent to it to prove it is yours, and the ads are gone. Changed phones? Do the same on the new phone and the license comes back. Every feature is the same with or without it; the license only takes the ads away.

Buy the lifetime license

goodsappstore.com/app/httpsmv/license

On your bank statement

GoodsAppStore.com is an Ultrazon.com Software Business: the store, the app and its lifetime license all come from Ultrazon.

When you buy the HTTPSmv lifetime license here, your bank or card statement shows the charge as PAYPAL *ULTRAZON for $1.00. That is this license; PayPal takes the payment for it.

More about it: goodsappstore.com/ultrazon_business. Questions about a charge: billing@goodsappstore.com.

What it looks like

What you are downloading

Checksum of the file

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Signed by

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Every version of this app is signed with the same key. If that second value ever changes, it did not come from the same hands — and Android will refuse to install it over the one you have.

Earlier versions