Today iStorage (iTunes Link) from Lukas Foldyna was released which is the first App (Correction: As some commenter mentioned this is not the first App: Caravan was first) for the iPhone/iPod Touch that supports downloads from web-sites. But unfourtunately I couldn't get it to work, either I got a cryptical error code or the App crashed. And I really tried many web-sites!

iStorage is more than a download client, here is a quick feature list:

• WebDAV server on the iPhone, so you can upload/download files, same as Air Sharing.
• FTP Client, can upload and download files.
  
• Included Web-browser which you should use for downloads. But as already mentioned, I couldn't download any file.
  
• Download Manager
• Text Editor to edit plain text files or source code
• Upload to FTP
• Renaming of files

That's a long list of features but really working are only the WebDAV server and renaming of files. Viewing of files on the iPhone/iPod Touch also works but iStorage does not save the page number which was last read. So you better look at DataCase or Air Sharing if you need this.

So for now I can only say don't buy it, just too many bugs and problems. The App has some potential and interesting features, so hopefully the developer will fix this soon.

Reviewed version: 1.0.0
Price: US$ 5.99
Rating: 1/5

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James  - Not the first...   |71.179.250.xxx |2008-09-21 01:35:25 This app is not the first app to support downloads from websites. I've been using Caravan for a while now and it does websites, wi-fi, text editing and FTP up and down.....and it's actually stable. Reply | Quote 0   1

Thomas  - True, Caravan was first     |123.203.89.xxx |2008-09-21 02:25:35 James, you're right Caravan seems to do pretty much the same as this App for half the price. Sorry about the mistake Reply | Quote 0   0

aminhers  - thanks     |58.8.10.xxx |2008-09-21 08:38:09 Thank for your infos Thomas, nice blog regad aminhers Reply | Quote 0   0

melwan  - r u kidding me?   |75.157.176.xxx |2008-09-22 06:38:19 This app supports iDisk. again, u can access iDisk with it. that means u can download and upload to iDisk. do i need to say more? I-D-I-S-K Reply | Quote 0   0

Thomas  - Removed from iTunes store   |123.203.89.xxx |2008-09-23 08:05:46 melwan, sorry but this App is supposed to support downloads from web-sites, and I couldn't get that to work. Lucky iDisk works for you. Anyway, just noticed that this App is not available at the moment!? Search still finds it but I can't get to the App details Reply | Quote 0   0

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