Access my Mac's hard drive app

I am looking for an iPhone app that works in a similar way to Apple's iDisk iPhone app but instead of connecting to my iDisk it connects to my Mac's hard drive. 
I don't need any remote desktop stuff. 
Any suggestions?

Use something such as OmniDiskSweeper (my favorite) or Grand Perspective to find out where large files may be. iCloud isn't going to help much if you've so much data that it won't fit on a 1TB drive. Sounds as if it's time to either buy another drive or at least an external with more space.
Good luck,
Clinton
MacBook Pro (15” Late 2011), OS X Yosemite 10.10, 16GB Crucial RAM, 960GB M500 Crucial SSD, 27” Apple Thunderbolt Display

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