fooView

Control files apps and screenshots with one smart floating button

fooView is an ambitious productivity toolkit that lives in a single, draggable button on your screen. Tap or swipe it, and a compact floating window appears over whatever you are doing, putting powerful utilities within thumb’s reach without disrupting your current activity.

At its core, fooView is a remarkably capable file manager. It browses local storage, local network shares and popular cloud services through Samba, FTP, WebDAV and more. Navigating folders, moving items, or streaming a video from a PC to your device feels surprisingly smooth for something running in a resizable overlay.

Beyond file management, it doubles as an app manager and launcher. You can create shortcuts, recent-app lists, or even handwriting gestures to open your favorite tools from anywhere. This makes multitasking – like quickly checking a document while watching a video – far more fluid than constantly switching screens.

Where fooView really stands out is its gesture-based capture features. By drawing a region on the screen, you can grab text to translate or share, clip part of an image, take multiple screenshots, or start screen recording. It’s ideal for gamers grabbing quick clips, or anyone who frequently needs visual notes and snippets.

The app also bundles viewers and basic editors for notes, images, music and videos, so common tasks can be done inside floating windows without shuffling between different apps.

The trade-off for this versatility is complexity. New users may find the dense settings and abundance of gestures slightly overwhelming, and the persistent overlay can feel intrusive until you fine-tune its position and sensitivity. However, once configured, fooView becomes an impressively efficient command center that can significantly streamline daily tasks and multitasking.