# Gigastone i-FlashDrive

> Utilities

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1050169956](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1050169956)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1050169956`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** PhotoFast Global Inc.
- **Category:** Utilities
- **Rating:** 2.50 / 5 (39 ratings)
- **Version:** 2.0.11
- **Last updated:** 2020-12-10
- **First published:** 2016-03-28
- **Size:** 205 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gigastone-i-flashdrive/id1050169956)
- **Website:** [https://www.photofast.com/](https://www.photofast.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.photofast.com/privacy/](https://www.photofast.com/privacy/)

## Description

Features:
1. Play audio files directly from the i-FlashDrive accessory without taking capacity from your iOS devices.
2. Play video files directly from the i-FlashDrive app accessory without taking capacity from your iOS devices.
3. Paste from Clipboard. Select text in Safari or email, copy and paste in i-FlashDrive app into a single text file, or from Camera Roll, copy and paste in i-FlashDrive app as image files.

i-FlashDrive allows you to store, view and manage files on your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. Exchange files between your iOS devices and Mac/PC.

i-FlashDrive features document viewer, file manager, voice recorder, text editor and other features. i-FlashDrive also supports many file management operations: i.e. copy, mode, delete, share and more.

Supported File Formats:
Document: Pages, Numbers, Keynote, doc, docx, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx, rtf, txt, html, pdf
Image: jpg, png, bmp, gif, tif, tiff, ico, xbm, cur
Audio: mp3, aac, m4a, aif, aiff, wav, caf, FLAC
Video: mp4, mov, m4v (without DRM), mkv, avi, flv, rm, rmvb, wmv, vob, 3gp
Other: zip

## Rankings

- #242,739 — Overall

## Review summary

Users largely agree the app offers a useful physical backup option and file access from external drives, with some praise for cross-device use and playable transferred media. However, widespread issues dominate: frequent crashes, poor compatibility with iPhone X and newer iOS versions, unreliable hardware recognition, a dangerous tendency to format memory cards without warning, and a clunky transfer experience (no rename or select-all, partial copy failures). Overall sentiment is negative due to stability and compatibility concerns, despite potential value for archiving and viewing files.

### Pros

- Provides a physical backup/transfer option with external USB/card reader
- Lets you view and access files on the connected storage from iPhone/iPad
- Works across multiple devices (e.g., iPhone 8, iPhone 11, iPad) according to some users
- Some users consider it one of the better apps in this category
- Transferred videos/audios can remain accessible and playable in the app for some users

### Cons

- Frequent crashes and instability, especially when moving photos or copying files
- Incompatibility with iPhone X and some iOS versions; hardware support often lacking
- External drives/card readers are not reliably recognized or supported by the app
- Serious data-loss risk: formatting memory cards without warning
- Poor UX: cannot rename files, no select-all option, tedious transfers, and partial copy failures

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1050169956)