Commander one reviews3/31/2023 ![]() You can naturally handle the files on your smartphone with the same type of controls you are accustomed to with a file manager on your desktop, which depending on your needs can come in handy and is certainly faster than trying to carry out renaming or compressing of files directly on your smartphone. Transferring files is as simple as dragging and dropping between the panes. Each pane can also display multiple tabs, so you can quickly switch between connections. Unfortunately due to the limitations of MTP you won’t get image previews in the icon setting, which would be considerably more convenient, but this isn’t a fault of Commander One. The basic functionality here is pretty much what you would expect, you have a pane on the left and a pane on the right and with the Pro Pack you have a wide variety of options which you can display here, including of course your Android device. That’s it, you’re all set to start transferring files. On the laptop side when you connect your smartphone for the first time you will be prompted with a message that “MTP device ‘(your smartphone’s name)’ is connected to Commander One”, just check that you don’t want to see this again and click ok. This was honestly the one issue I really found with Commander One and that is that I had to redo this every time I connected, it’s obviously just a couple taps, but it would be vastly preferable to simply be able to plug in and go. It is probably by default set to simply charge, so once you have connected your smartphone to your laptop go into Settings > Connected Devices > USB and then select File Transfer. Getting started with the app is basically just plug-and-play, the one thing you will likely need to do when you connect your smartphone is to change the preferred behavior when connecting your smartphone via USB. We’ll cover some of the extras as well, but our primary concern is how Commander One works with your Android device(s) and the core functionality of file management. While $30 isn’t cheap, I appreciate utility software like this not shifting to a subscription model, if you view it as the same as 3 months of a music or video streaming service it seems pretty reasonable. You are better off purchasing the app directly through Eltima as you lose a few unique features with the Mac App Store version thanks to Apple’s sandboxing, check out the full comparison here. You can add support for lifetime upgrades to any of these purchases for $14.99, $49.99, and $75 respectively. ![]() If you are a small business you can shave a little off this price with a 5-pack for $99.99 ($20 per license) or up to 50 for just $149.99 ($3 per license) if you are outfitting a larger company. While there is a free version of Commander One that gives you a dual pane file manager interface on your Mac, in order to use it with your Android device (along with a host of other features ) you need to upgrade to the Pro Pack after a 15-day free trial for a one-time purchase of $29.99. I’m going to get this out of the way right at the top as I know there are people that simply aren’t willing to pay more than $5 (or anything for that matter) for an app, so no reason to keep you on the hook until the end. So let’s dive in and take a look at whether Commander One might be the right solution for you. To be clear this isn’t all that Commander One does, while we are going to primarily focus on the Android-related functionality, this is a Finder replacement for macOS that delivers a dual-pane multi-tab file manager that is sorely lacking on the Mac these days and that is still just scratching the surface of what you can do with Commander One. While my smartphone is certainly vastly more independent from my laptop than it was 10 or even 5 years ago, there are still times when I need to pass data between the two or would like to access the data on my smartphone without having to pass the data through the cloud and unsurprisingly macOS doesn’t really play well with others. As you might have guessed, I fall firmly into this category and so when given the opportunity to review Commander One from Eltima, I was intrigued. ![]() As much as Apple loves to try to sell its customers on the glory of owning nothing but Apple hardware, there’s a solid portion of its user base that relies on Apple laptops or desktops but would never dream of giving up our Android smartphones.
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