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Adinand Auto File Sorter for Android

Need help? Email [email protected]. Please say which phone you have and which version of Android it is running, and if something went wrong during a sort, roughly when — the app keeps a Sort History and that makes almost every question faster to answer.

Getting started — the whole of it

There are three steps, and the app shows the same three on its first screen.

Grant storage access. The app sends you to Android’s own settings page, where you turn on Allow access to manage all files.
Press back. That is genuinely step two. The app notices and starts scanning on its own.
Tap “Sort Now”. A preview lists exactly what will move and where, before anything moves. Files land in Downloads › Sorted Files.

If you would rather look before granting anything, the first screen also offers “Try the demo — sample data, no sign-in needed”. The demo runs the real sorting and undo machinery over fourteen invented files held in memory. No permission is asked for, and nothing on your phone is read, moved or created.

An honest note about background work

Automatic background sorting is a Pro feature, and it is the part of the app most affected by something outside the app: some phones restrict background apps to save battery, which can delay or stop it.

The app does not ask to be exempted from that — Google Play’s policy reserves battery-optimisation exemptions for apps whose core function breaks without one, and this one does not qualify. What it does instead is tell you. A health indicator on the home screen reports when the system has not let the job run, with a help sheet naming the settings that cause this on Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, Realme, OnePlus and Samsung phones. If background sorting has gone quiet, check that indicator first; one tap on Sort Now still sorts the folders you watch, whenever you like.

The intervals on offer are every 15 minutes, every hour, every 6 hours and once a day. Fifteen minutes is the shortest interval Android’s own scheduler accepts, not a promise about when a particular run happens. Background runs never show a preview — switching the toggle on is the consent — and every one of them is listed in Sort History and can be undone. Why Android does this.

How to undo

Undo is offered the moment a sort finishes, on the screen you are already looking at (Undo — “Put files back”). Afterwards, open Sort History and use the Undo beside the entry you want back.

Free undoes your most recent sort. Pro undoes any past sort.
There is no time limit. An old sort is as undoable as this morning’s.
Files go back to the exact path they came from. If something else has taken that name since, the file is put back as name (1).ext and the app tells you so rather than overwriting anything.
A file you deleted yourself in the meantime is reported as already gone, and the rest of the batch is still restored.

How to uninstall, and where your files are afterwards

Uninstall it the ordinary way, from the launcher or from Android Settings › Apps. Your files stay exactly where they are — in Downloads › Sorted Files, in the category folders, under their own names. They are ordinary files in an ordinary folder: no database is needed to read them, and any file manager will do it.

What uninstalling removes is the app’s own data — your settings, your rules and the Sort History. So if you want a past sort reversed, undo it before you uninstall; afterwards the history that described it is gone, even though the files are not.

If you would rather have everything back in one folder, undo the sorts from Sort History first and the files return to where they came from.

Common questions

I sorted, and a file I expected to move is still sitting in Downloads.: Four likely reasons, in order. Its category is unticked in the checklist. It has no extension at all, in which case the app deliberately leaves it alone. It is inside a sub-folder — only files sitting directly in a watched folder are sorted. Or it was still arriving: part-files, empty files and anything changed in the last 30 seconds are skipped on purpose.
Where did my WhatsApp documents go?: Into Downloads › Sorted Files, like everything else. In the app’s own words: “Wherever a file is found, it is moved into Downloads › Sorted Files. A WhatsApp document does not stay next to WhatsApp.” That is one central destination by design, not a bug.
Can I stop it creating a folder per category?: Yes — turn off “Create category subfolders” and everything lands directly in Sorted Files. That switch is free.
The duplicate finder says it needs a newer Android.: It needs Android 11 or newer, as do watched folders beyond Downloads. On Android 10 the app says so rather than running a partial scan that might mislead you. Everything else works on Android 10.
I removed some duplicates and want them back.: The copies you cleaned went to a trash folder inside Sorted Files, and can be put back for 7 days. One copy of every file is always kept, so a duplicate clean can never leave you with none of something.
I bought Pro and it is not showing.: Open Settings in the app and use Restore Purchase, making sure you are signed in to the Google Account you bought with. If it still does not appear, email us. An offline phone is not a problem on its own: the app does not downgrade someone who has paid just because it cannot reach Google Play at that moment.
Can I get a refund?: Refunds are handled by Google Play, not by us, through your Google Play order history. We cannot issue them ourselves, but do tell us what went wrong.
Does it work in my language?: The app is in English, Hindi, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and Indonesian, with a language picker inside it. The folder names it creates on disk stay in English on purpose, so that renaming your phone’s language never strands files in a folder you can no longer find.

Requirements

Android 10 or newer. Watched folders beyond Downloads and the duplicate finder need Android 11 or newer. Get it on Google Play.

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