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App Categories  | Released: Feb 26, 2010
Version: Current 2.1.4
Size: 8.8 MB
Parental Rating:
4+
Languages:
English, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
Requirements:
Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch.
Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.
Description
The easiest way to view your documents on the go.
Now upgradable to Pro features with an in-app purchase!
FEEDBACK
"Wish you could copy that new proposal to your iPhone and review it on the plane? Now you can." — Apple Inc.
"Most Useful App" — 2008 Best App Ever Awards
"Editor's Choice" — PC Magazine
"App of the Week" — Apple Inc.
"It's so easy to use" — Chicago Tribune
"Our favorite file storage app" — Gizmodo
"A fantastic file storage app" — iPhone Alley
"Editor's Pick... Score: 10/10" — AppCraver
INTRODUCTION
With Air Sharing, you can:
- Mount your iPhone or iPod touch as a Wi-Fi drive on your computer (Mac, Windows, or Linux) or connect from your computer's web browser.
- Drag-drop files between your iPhone or iPod touch and your computers.
- View and email documents in many common formats.
- Send email attachments
FEATURES
Upgradeable with in-app purchase to Air Sharing Pro features:
- Connect to your computer (on Windows, requires free desktop app)
- Mount remote file servers (MobileMe iDisk, WebDAV, FTP, FTPS, and SSH/SFTP)
- Custom bookmarks
- PDF table of contents, page thumbnails
- Download files from the web
- Get and Save Photo Library images
- File operations (Copy, Paste, Move, Rename, New Folder)
- Zip and Unzip
- Search by File name
- Print (via printers shared by Mac OS X 10.5+ or Linux)
Ease of use
- Familiar Finder-like file browser
- Use of Bonjour and WebDAV (just like iDisk) for easy connection
- Extensive in-line Help with detailed, simple instructions
Advanced image viewer
- Stable, high-quality viewing of very high-resolution image files
- Configurable image slideshow
- Swipe to previous or next image
Advanced PDF viewer
- Support for large or complex PDF documents
- Go To Page
Fast access
- Scrollbar in document viewer
- A folder popup for going back to previously viewed folders
- Automatic jump to last viewed location when opening a document
Security
- Optional password protection of remote access
- Public folder for guest access
- Local passcode lock for app security
Compatibility
- Mac OS X (Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard)
- Windows (XP, Vista, 7)
- Linux (GNOME and KDE)
- Any web browser
- Computer-to-iPhone connection requires Wi-Fi network
VIEWABLE FORMATS
- iWork (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote)
- Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), subject to iPhone compatibility
- Web Archive (web pages downloaded by Safari)
- HTML web page
- PDF
- Adobe Illustrator, saved with as PDF Compatible (NEW!)
- RTF (Rich Text Format)
- RTFD (TextEdit documents with embedded images)
- Plain text (many different file extensions), with automatic character-encoding recognition
- Source code (C/C++, Objective C/C++, C#, Java, Javascript, XML, shell scripts, Perl, Ruby, Python, Lua, and more), with color-coded formatting
- Movies, Audio, and Images (standard iPhone formats)
SUPPORT
Got questions? Please visit our support forum at www.avatron.com/support. We cannot reply in the App Store.
What's New In This Version?
Added support for viewing .aspx files as XML.
Reviews (16 of 2432 available)
 Version 1.1.1
really cool because it lets you view almost any...
Version 1.1.1
really cool because it lets you view almost any file type; .ppt, .doc, .pdf, .whatever.
very versatile.
Useful, but somewhat tricky to get working.
 Version 1.1.1
Useful, but somewhat tricky to get working.
Works really well with most file formats and it...
 Version 1.1.1
Works really well with most file formats and it's easy to connect.
Version 1.1.1
Version 1.1.1
transfer files to your iphone from your compute...
Version 1.1.1
transfer files to your iphone from your computer wirelessly
I keep wanting to use this, but I don't encount...
Version 1.1.2
I keep wanting to use this, but I don't encounter situations where it would be better than a memory stick (jump drive). I'm sure the app is fine, but my needs don't match its abilities.
Version 1.1.2
Version 1.1.4 (iPhone OS 3.0 Tested)
Gets the job to put files and documents on your...
Version 1.1.4 (iPhone OS 3.0 Tested)
Gets the job to put files and documents on your iphone done.
Not the best App but (1) I got it free, (2) sti...
Version 1.1.4 (iPhone OS 3.0 Tested)
Not the best App but (1) I got it free, (2) still the easiest to use (3) wifi sharing works perfectly with my mac. Only regret is very slow picture preview and occasional crashes. Don't think I will spend the money on the PRO version though.
Good, but not quite there
By PDFreader on Sep 23, 2008
182 of 204 iTunes users found this review helpful
Version 1.0.1
Air Sharing is (at this time, at least), superior to its competitors FileMagnet and Stanza. It doesn't require a server-side application to transfer files to the handheld device, and its PDF reader supports implicit bookmarking. That means you can read a long PDF document, quit, and when you come back to it, still be at the same page. All PDF formatting (italics, page breaks, bolding, etc.) is preserved (which is a feature the makers of Stanza consider unnecessary), so Air Sharing is the clear winner there, too.
But as a document reader, it still suffers from too many of the drawbacks of similar utilities. The reader screen is surrounded by wholly unnecessary gray borders that cut into the already-minimal iTouch/iPhone viewing area. There's the gray wireless/time/battery bar at the top, reducing screen area still further. And at the bottom, there's the biggest gray bar of all, holding two pretty much useless "up" and "down" arrows. The iTouch/iPhone photo viewer makes use of the entire screen, so there's no reason a document viewer can't do the same thing. Worst of all, each time you scroll up or down, a big gray "<nn> of <nnnn>" page-number display obscures about one-eighth of the top left of the screen. Okay, it goes away after a couple of seconds, but it's very annoying, not needed, and you can't turn it off.
Scrolling is up-and-down only; the more natural right-to-left page-style scrolling isn't supported, even as an option.
There's no way to jump to a specific page, either. The only way to get to a given page is to scroll there, one. Page. At. A. Time. Not a big deal for a small document, but if you're reading a long PDF ebook or magazine, it gets very tedious, very fast.
Air Sharing gets full marks for its innovative and effective way of transferring files to the handheld device without special serverside software. But as a reader of the transferred documents, it still needs:
1: Explicit bookmarking, so the user can manually choose which page will be bookmarked. Multiple bookmarks would be nice, too.
2: Full-screen viewing, without borders, bars or page-number displays cutting into the viewing area. Again, the iTouch/iPhone photo viewer can do this, and it's even more important for document reading.
3: An option for horizontal scrolling.
Of the three file-transfer and document-viewing utilities I've mentioned, Air Sharing is the clear winner. But until the features I've outlined above are added, I can only give this utility three stars. Avatron has come up with a great method for transferring files, and now they need to put equal effort into the interface for viewing them. That would make Air Sharing a truly five-star program.
Oh, wow...
By CatsAreGods on Sep 09, 2008
58 of 65 iTunes users found this review helpful
Version 1.0.0
This is an amazingly done piece of software! It's well designed, it works exactly as you'd want, it's completely intuitive, has built-in help for Macs, Windows, Linux, and browsers, and opened anything I threw at it. In fact, it's much faster than iTunes if you just want to load a couple of songs onto your iPod or iPhone to listen quickly, or even a movie (it will play these with QuickTime). And it lets you use your device as a portable flash memory, without having to plug it into a USB port (which has some cool implications...). It even looks nice! And getting it free is even better :-) Thanks, Avatron, this app rocks!
Great app but...
By FrankMelo on Sep 09, 2008
27 of 43 iTunes users found this review helpful
 Version 1.0.0
Nice app, good suport, easy, fast but have a lack of some features like, zip files, rename function, create folders, send via email etc....
Update fixed it!
By Christian_AZ on Jun 28, 2009
11 of 19 iTunes users found this review helpful
Version 1.1.4
Thank you for getting the update out to fix the app. Works like a charm again! Great replacement for USB drives and let's me view my docs.
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