Over the last few YEARS, I’ve kept **[Readdle Documents](https://readdle.com/documents)** app on my iOS phone. It’s been a handy app to have and I started using it when it was free. Unfortunately, they’ve switched to a subscription model that is $9.99 a month with recurring billing.

While a part of me feels bad about using their app for years at no cost, paying $9.99 a month with recurring billing is not something I want to do. After all, there are only so many cups of coffee one can give up (and hey, I don’t drink Starbucks) or other stuff to cover the expenses.

Documents is gone now. Farewell, old friend.

Alas, I know I’m old-fashioned. I want to pay once for an app, and it stays bought. It’s totally unreasonable I know, but I had no problem paying for **[$4.99 one-time fee for an app](https://www.skyjos.com/fileexplorer/)** that I won’t have to renew. In the meantime, I’ll try to find a way to eliminate the need for that kind of app.

## Update
FE File Explorer has turned out to me MUCH easier to use and navigate than Readdle’s Documents app. One of the main reasons I kept Documents around, aside from its ability to view ePubs (ebooks) and play audio/video, was the ease of transferring files. Documents relied on DocsTransfer.com website, rather than arcane FTP/HTTP links that you could use. However, switching back to FTP/HTTP links was easy…it eliminated having to connect the two devices, except via a web browser.

The biggest surprise, though, was migrating gigabytes of data from Documents to FE File Explorer. Instead of uploading it to my computer, as I feared I would need to do, I was able to simply SHARE entire folders from one app to the other. Transfer was instantaneous, and in a matter of 2-3 minutes, I was done. After verifying files transferred successfully, I was able to remove the Readdle Documents app from my device.