20 best alternatives to Dropbox as of 2018 - Slant

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pCloud

Top Pro

No file size limits

Allows you to store your HD videos, FLAC music files, and large documents. See More

Top Con

Not a well known company

Top Pro

Other users can upload files to your storage

Have others upload files directly to your account from any browser using "Upload links". See More

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Desktop app doesn't take space on hard disk

Computers see it as a network drive. See More

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Cross-platform

Backup and use your files from any device with Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, or iOS. See More

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Lifetime options for storage space

Top Pro

No synchronization speed limits

Sync files as fast as your internet plan allows you to. See More

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Very reliable

Top Pro

Free 20gb of storage

Higher than all the other cloud services except Mega. See More

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2tb storage and 2tb bandwidth

Unlike all the other clouds this makes it great for sharing large files. To lots of people. See More

Top Pro

Free bandwidth with ads

This is nice if you don't care about what is people see on the page when you share the file and you have large files to send. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Mac, Linux

Offline access:Yes

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Box

Top Con

Log in on every use

Any time the app is opened the user's log-in needs to be typed in, which can become annoying. While it is a nice privacy feature, an option to turn it off would be nice. See More

Top Pro

Cross-platform desktop and mobile

Box is available for Windows, OS X, iOS, Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phones. Which mean access to ones files no matter the device or platform used. See More

Top Con

No Linux client

They are not willing to listen to Linux community. They've also deleted a bunch of messages from Linux users on their forum See More

Top Pro

Extendable via plugins

There are plug-ins for applications that allow interactions with Box. See More

Top Con

Missing collaborative apps

Not being able to easily back up office works through an integrated office suite can be a set back when comparing to backup apps like Drive. While you can set certain apps to save their files to the Box folder, it is not as easy as using something like Google Docs, which not only saves while you are working but as soon as you are done, with no extra steps. See More

Top Pro

Salesforce and NetSuite support

Top Pro

Sharing and privacy features built for business and IT users

Such as advanced sharing options, task assignment, notifications. Making an easy way to stay up to date on assigned tasks. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows; OSX; Android; iOS; Windows Phone; BlackBerry

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Google Drive

Top Pro

15GB free

This space is shared across Drive, Gmail & Picasa. See More

Top Con

No official client for Linux

Google as of yet has a client for Linux, leaving many who use the service forced to use third party apps or the webpage. See More

Top Pro

File sharing & collaborative editing

Google account holders and non-holders can be set to access and/or collaborate on files/folders in real-time. Additionally, you can find files you've shared not only by filename but by person you've shared the files with. See More

Top Con

Data privacy not guaranteed

Data privacy is widely known as one of Google's weaknesses. Data shared through Google is most likely matched up with the user's profile inside other Alphabet inc. subsidiaries, and, due to the business model, used commercially. See More

Top Pro

Integrates with other Google services

For example, you can use search to search through both Drive and Gmail. See More

Top Con

Terms and Conditions allow Google to own anything on Google Drive

They can create derivative works, they can perform it, they can modify it, and they can publish it at will. There are many other specific rights they take over your product. Read the Terms carefully and compare with ANY others. See More

Top Pro

Extended functionality via apps

Third party Drive applications running in Chrome or Android can add functionality such as image/video editing, project management, flowchart creation, etc. See More

Top Con

Low bandwidth

Top Pro

Save files to drive directly from Gmail

Drive lets you save any file from your email. See More

Top Con

Very unreliable

Desktop client constantly crashes. See More

Top Pro

Built-in office suite

Includes tools for writing, presentations and spreadsheets. See More

Top Con

No universal Windows app

Top Pro

Revision control

By clicking Ctrl + Alt + G in Windows or Command + Alt + Shift + G is OS X you can access previous version of the file. See More

Top Con

Doesn't integrate well with OS

Top Pro

Mobile integration

You can work from any device, especially mobile. See More

Top Pro

Cheap for extra storage

$1.99 per 100GB, for up to 16TB. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows; OSX; Linux; Android; iOS

Spreadsheets:Yes

Word processing:Yes

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Mega

Top Pro

50GB free

There's also three upgrade plans, starting at 500GB and $110/yr. See More

Top Con

Higher than normal chance of a forced service shutdown

Mega has a higher than normal chance of having legal troubles due its founders past, thus there's a higher than normal chance that the service may be shut down with all your files in it and no way to retrieve them. See More

Top Pro

Cross platform

Linux, Windows and Mac. See More

Top Con

No account recovery

The only way to access your account is with a password and there is no way to recover it if you lose it. See More

Top Pro

Client-side encryption

All files uploaded to Mega are first encrypted on the users side. To access files a decryption key must be supplied. For ease of use, the decryption key can be appended to the URL you share. See More

Top Pro

Easy to use

Just drag and drop files in the browser window, then create a link for sharing. You will need an account to create a link. To streamline the process for new users you can start uploading as soon as you access the website and create an account while it's uploading. See More

Top Pro

Open source client

Top Pro

Functional web interface

Specs

Platforms:Windows; Android; iOS; Mac OS X; Chrome OS; Linux

Differential:Yes

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F(x) Data Cloud

Top Pro

Option for hosting the database service on the cloud server.

If you wanna host your database on the cloud server, you can have both the option as Database as a Service (Pre-installed and managed database) or Infrastructure as a Service (If you want to have root access and manually want to install the database). See More

Top Con

No GPU provided

GPU is not provided. See More

Top Pro

High uptime

All the cloud services are with 99.95% uptime. See More

Top Pro

Cost-friendly

F(x) Data Cloud provides public cloud server at a cheap price. The basic plan starts at $1.99/month. See More

Top Pro

Great Support

Typically answers in minute. See More

Top Pro

Provides high configurations

They provide 32 vCPU, 128 GB RAM, 2000 GB SSD, 9 TB network. For large businesses, high configurations are required. See More

Specs

Server locations:United States

ISOs:Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Windows

Virtualization:KVM

Cloud Storage:Yes

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Microsoft OneDrive

Top Pro

No setup for Windows 8/8.1/10

If you use Windows 8 or later, OneDrive is already built in your system and can be accessed via file explorer. See More

Top Con

Strictest code of conduct

Terms of Service forbid any kind of nudity, or that incites, advocates, or expresses pornography or racism among other things. See More

Top Pro

Integrates with Microsoft Office software

It integrates with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc as if you were using OneDrive locally. See More

Top Con

No client for Linux

No client for Linux. See More

Top Pro

Offers 15GB of storage for free

Top Con

Old versions and deleted files aren't available online, just on one computer.

On some other services you can see previous versions and deleted files for a time, but with OneDrive, these are only available on the computer the edit was made. So if someone who has write permission on your shared folder deletes your stuff you just have to ask them to go in their recycle bin (and hope they didn't empty it!), which makes it less useful for teams. See More

Top Pro

Share files and folders easily

You can choose what files and folders to share with other people then send them a link. See More

Top Pro

Unlimited storage for Office 365 users

Top Pro

Photos taken with a smartphone can be set to automatically upload to OneDrive

When Android, iOS and Windows Phone users take a photo with their phone it can be set to automatically upload to OneDrive via app. See More

Top Pro

Collaboration via Office 365

If you use Office 365 with OneDrive, you can share a file to edit collaboratively in real time. See More

Specs

Offline access:Yes

Spreadsheets:Yes

Presentations:Yes

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Tresorit

Top Pro

Client-side encryption

Encryption is performed before content gets uploaded to the cloud. See More

Top Con

No Telephone Support

Top Pro

Cross-platform

With clients for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and Blackberry. See More

Top Con

Proprietary

Because the software is proprietary, there's no way to review the security practices or really know how the software operates under the hood. As such it can be considered as not safe for sensitive information. See More

Top Pro

Free storage space (get additional space through bonuses)

5 GB, up to 16 GB with bonuses. See More

Top Con

Significantly more expensive than just about everything else

Specs

Platforms:Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, Windows Phone

End-to-end encryption:Yes

Offline access:Yes

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Evernote

Top Pro

Consolidates all your information

Evernote is designed to store a lot of different types of information from a lot of different sources in one place. Using the Web Clipper, native integrations, or a service such as IFTTT (If This Then That) you can use Evernote to store all your ideas, notes (both handwritten and typed), tasks, reading lists, receipts, and more. See More

Top Con

Free version limited to 2 devices

The free version has become very limited as a cloud based note taking app as there is now only sharing between two devices allowed. See More

Top Pro

Powerful features for organising your notes

Evernote is designed to make it easy to keep your notes well organized, which aids in quickly finding/browsing old information. You can put notes into a single notebook and use search to access old notes, or if you're so inclined, organize notes extensively with hierarchical notebooks and tags. See More

Top Con

Pay for offline use, search, and other functions

The free version of Evernote is highly limited. You have to pay if you want to access your notes without internet connection, search your notes or documents, or upload large amounts of data. The free version allows you to upload 60 MB of data per month, which is about 20 to 30 iPhone camera pictures. At a certain point, they started charging you for "advanced" capability, which includes searching your own attachments. See More

Top Pro

Native and offline-capable apps on pretty much every platform

Evernote has apps for Windows 7 and 8, Windows 10, Mac, Android, iOS (both iPhone and iPad), Blackberry, and Windows Phone. It also has a fully functional web app and chrome plug-in. No matter what device or platform you're on, you will pretty much always be able to access Evernote. See More

Top Con

Bloated and complex

Evernote is too big, has too many features. Note taking apps need absolutely clean interface to allow unobtrusive note taking and not a struggle to search for which buttons to click. It focuses on the search feature so much that it doesn't encourage or make it immediately easy to organize your notes and thoughts. It's essentially a sophisticated notes dump with good search. See More

Top Pro

Trustworthy to store data in the long term

With many utility tools being constantly shut down by their creators, it's really important to consider the long-term risks of picking a home for all your notes. Evernote is a $1 billion company with a track record of exceptional security and goals of becoming a "100 year old" company. See More

Top Con

No official Linux app

Evernote does not offer an official Linux app, although there are some third party alternatives available. See More

Top Pro

Can include images, and snippets from the web or a whole webpage via web clipper

With one click you can clip part or all of any webpage, including text, images, and links. Especially for those who use Google Chrome, this web clipper is a very rich add-on. The “simplified article” mode strips all graphical overhead from the page before adding the information to Evernote. It's also possible to add highlighting, tags, etc. before storing the note. See More

Top Con

Poor text formatting abilities

Text formatting in Evernote is buggy and unreliable. Bullets (outlining) are getting stuck or disappearing, tables are very static and prone to breaking and everything beyond the most basic formatting might cause an issue. See More

Top Pro

Has OCR functionality to convert images to searchable text

A really cool and handy Evernote feature is the ability to automatically scan images for text. See More

Top Con

Different features and functions per device

Desktop app has table creation. Android app lacks font color changes. Some functions can only be accessed on the desktop app. These include changing your default notebook. See More

Top Pro

Great selection for integrating with other apps

The Evernote app center page is nicely organized and has good quality integration of apps that can improve your productivity. See More

Top Con

Very heavyweight for a to-do list

Evernote is a powerhouse program with many features. It uses a correspondingly large amount of memory to run. See More

Top Pro

"Reminders" are a great way to combine your to-dos and notes

One of the note types is a "reminder," which can act as a to-do list. You can add all the usual formatting to reminders, including audio. Evernote will provide alerts when they are due and house them in a special location within the app. See More

Top Con

Security issues

Evernote had their entire database hacked and compromised including customer user passwords. They responded by locking valid users out of accounts and forcing password changes but are still vague about their own security policies. They do not have a good track record for data security. They also do not offer local personal encryption of entire Notebooks as Microsoft OneNote does. See More

Top Pro

Powerful note formatting

Evernote has an extensive range of formatting options and note types. You can create checklists, reminder alerts, audio notes, or add images and attachments. It also has an awesome speech-to-text feature if you prefer to dictate aloud. See More

Top Con

No recurring and snooze reminders

Perhaps because it is not truly a to-do list app, there is currently no support for recurring events or snooze reminders. The company claims to be working on this functionality. See More

Top Pro

Easy to use

Evernote is easy to dive into because it doesn’t overwhelm you with advanced functionality from the start. As you get more accustomed to the app, you might want to delve deeper to see what benefits the more advanced features will offer. See More

Top Con

Constantly directs you to upgrading your account

The frequent reminders to upgrade your account can quickly become disruptive. You get notifications when using the app, and many of the features that show as available in the app are actually for paid accounts only (which, when you try to use them, will remind you to upgrade). See More

Top Pro

Focused, uncluttered user interface

Evernote has a very clean and intuitive interface that's simple to understand at a glance. See More

Top Con

Buggy

A program with more features is always prone to more bugs. Evernote is definitely not the most stable note-taking program available. See More

Top Pro

Multipurpose

In addition to general note taking and to-do list management, Evernote lets you search through scanned documents, handwritten text, and images; collaborate with others through shared notebooks; record audio notes; and more. See More

Top Con

Rather poor user interface

Slow, not user friendly experience, complex, and somehow limited. See More

Top Pro

Premium allows search in attached files and documents

With a premium account you are able to search through PDFs and Office Docs. See More

Top Con

Lacks right-to-left writing support

When you write in a right-to-left language (Arabic, for example), everything looks fine in the editor but the direction changes to the left again after saving the note. See More

Top Pro

Evernote is synchronized

Top Con

Steep learning curve

Since Evernote has so many features built in, it's hard to know where to find everything until reasonable amount of time has been spent with it. See More

Top Pro

Flexible image manipulation

Permits photos that are taken, to be processed when in automatic mode and saved as a photo, black and white document, colour document, post it note or business card. The automated mode is also good at cropping the document effectively. See More

Top Con

Easy to accidentally hit the wrong button on the mobile apps

The mobile apps have fairly small touch targets, making it easy to miss the button or accidentally press the wrong one. See More

Top Pro

Innovative hacks

To save emails, just forward them to your Evernote email address generated on account creation. It is of course one of many such hacks. See More

Top Con

Missing some basic functions

Top Pro

Effective with pictures or snapshot of boards

Take a picture of your white board/paper board and you have it instantly in evernote everywhere, ready for additional notes and classification Scannable friend app is rather efficient to keep hand written note as well. See More

Top Con

Not distributed

One cannot run Evernote on own servers. This brings with it the risks normally associated with handing over critical applications to a large corporation. See More

Top Pro

Best web clipper

Can clip to the web from desktop or mobile, using simplified format or original formatting. Very quick and flexible, and enables you to highlight, take notes, tag, etc. See More

Top Con

No ability to re-order notes other than sorting

Evernote has no way to re-order notes, nor even to change their display order. Sorting is the only option, and the "official" workaround (for years now) is to prefix note titles with line numbers manually so notes will sort and display as desired. See More

Top Pro

Skitch integration

If you're on iOS and have Skitch installed, you can quickly annotate your notes using Skitch. See More

Top Con

Lacks search and replace capability

Top Pro

Has conflict management and undo

Allows undo/redo when editing (i.e. all changes are finalized upon saving). If conflicts between synchronized versions arise, both copies are saved in Evernote. See More

Top Pro

Can choose from a few themes

You can pick from a green theme, light, or dark theme. All are very clear and visually appealing. See More

Specs

Platforms:Android / iOS / WP / OSX / Windows / WebOS

Collaborative:yes

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CrashPlan

Top Pro

Unintrusive

You set it up once and from then it runs in the background whenever you are not using your computers (or at specified times). See More

Top Con

Popular features (local backup and trusted offsite backup no longer available)

Top Pro

Supports multiple backup destinations

You can set up different files/folders to back up to specific places. See More

Top Con

Heavy client

The BackupClient is based on Java and therefore a lot more memory-intensive than most other backup solutions See More

Top Pro

Differential and incremental file backup

CrashPlan updates only that part of the file that has changed, saving bandwidth and time. See More

Top Con

Home edition discontinued

CrashPlan's home edition will be shut down on October 23, 2018. They are no longer accepting new signups or subscription renewals. See More

Top Pro

Unlimited online storage

The $5/mo individual plan and the $12.50/mo family plan gets you unlimited cloud storage. See More

Top Pro

Allows custom encryption keys

Custom 448 bit user-provided encryption key can be used to encrypt the backed up data in the cloud. See More

Top Pro

Users can order a physical copy of their data

They will send you an external hard drive to your house. See More

Top Pro

Unlimited revision history

CrashPlan saves all previous versions of a file. See More

Top Pro

Free for DIY setups

If you wish to backup to your own server or a local disk, CrashPlan is free. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows; Linux; OSX; Android; iOS

Incremental:Yes

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Boostnote

Top Pro

Great for developers

Boostnote is great for developers looking to take programming notes with code snippets and such. See More

Top Con

Some of the features are not consistent

Top Pro

Free

Top Con

Must use third-party service for sync-ing (Dropbox, etc.)

Boostnote does not have sync-ing capabilities and relies on third-party services to fulfil notes storage. There are additional steps involved to set this up. See More

Top Pro

Markdown support

Top Con

Very poor syncing

Data loss may occur on syncing. See More

Top Pro

Supports code snippets and syntax highlighting

Boostnote has the ability to store code snippets and comes with syntax highlighting out of the box, supporting many languages. See More

Top Pro

Works offline

Boostnote doesn't require an internet connection to work. You can write notes offline and sync later. See More

Top Pro

Global search, tag feature

Top Pro

Open source

https://github.com/BoostIO/Boostnote See More

Top Pro

Cross platform support

Supports Windows, macOS and Linux. See More

Top Pro

Comes with many themes

Boostnote comes with many themes out of the box, most of which are popular themes and color schemes for code editors: e.g. 3024, base16, solarized, tomorrow. See More

Top Pro

vim/emacs key bindings available

Boostnote supports vim/emacs key bindings. If you're a developer familiar with either of them, navigation should be easy to pick up. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows/MacOS/Linux/Andoid/iOS

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Amazon S3

Top Pro

Easily scalable

There's no cap in storage or traffic. Cost is based on usage. See More

Top Con

Confusing web interface

Amazon S3's web interface is quite confusing, especially for first-time users, but there are many tutorials online that help beginners to set up a static site on S3. See More

Top Pro

Super cheap with a year's worth of free service

S3 storage costs $0.03 per GB and gets cheaper the more is stored, PUT, COPY, POST, or LIST requests are $0.005 per 1,000 requests and GET and all other requests are $0.004 per 10,000 requests. And with some restrictions is available for free for a year. See More

Top Con

Credit card needed

Amazon will try to retrieve the money every month after one year trial. If you have no money you will be banned. See More

Top Pro

Fast setup

You can provision a S3 bucket, upload files, setup the DNS, and go live in under 10 minutes. See More

Top Con

No SFTP support

Amazon S3 does not have SFTP support, instead the S3 web interface has to be used. See More

Top Pro

Fast

S3 is fast even without a CDN. See More

Top Con

Setting up automatic public permissions is confusing

By default, S3 sets uploaded files to private. You can configure your S3 bucket to auto-apply public permissions by copying and pasting a template. But the template might be intimidating to some users. See More

Top Pro

Easy to setup with CDN

Simple to set up with Amazon's CloudFont CDN. See More

Top Pro

Free for small sites

The free tier will cover most personal home pages. See More

Top Pro

Supports custom root domains

To set up a custom domain, Amazon Route 53 has to be configured as the DNS provider with the domain registrar, two buckets have to be created and configured with the name the same as the domain - one including, one excluding www. A more in-depth explanation can be found here. See More

Top Pro

No security risks

There's no server to manage, so no security issues to patch or keep watch. See More

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OneDrive

Top Con

Strictest code of conduct

Terms of Service forbid any kind of nudity, or that incites, advocates, or expresses pornography or racism among other things. See More

Top Pro

Collaboration via Office 365

If you use Office 365 with OneDrive, you can share a file to edit collaboratively in real time. See More

Top Con

Becomes slower when it picks up a "Linux" user-agent

This may be intentional by Microsoft to force OneDrive users to use Windows. When OneDrive picks up a "Linux" user-agent it becomes slow whereas when from the same computer and browser it picks up a "Windows" user-agent it becomes considerably faster. See More

Top Pro

Microsoft Office integration

It integrates with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc as if you were using OneDrive locally. See More

Top Pro

Full integration in Windows 10

Once setup OneDrive folder and local folders can be the same slowing for seamlessly integration into Windows OS. See More

Top Pro

Automatic photo uploads from phone

When Android, iOS and Windows Phone users shoot a photo with their phone it is automatically uploaded to OneDrive via app. See More

Top Pro

Music file syncs with Groove Music

Music files put in the Music folder in OneDrive sync with Groove Music. See More

Top Pro

No setup for Windows 8/8.1

If you use Windows 8 or 8.1, OneDrive is already built in your system and can be accessed via file explorer. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows; OSX; Android; iOS; XBOX

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Elephant

Top Pro

Only the essentials

Only basic features are added to Elephant so users aren't overloaded with the interface. See More

Top Con

No mobile app

No mobile apps (can use common sync tools to edit plain files, though). See More

Top Pro

Files are stored locally

Instead of moving files over the cloud, files are stored locally for extra privacy. For syncing, any cloud service can be used. See More

Top Con

No WYSIWYG editor

Top Pro

Open source

All features can be used or edited at will for free. See More

Top Con

Light on features

While not labeled a beta, Elephant is a new note program and doesn't offer all the bells and whistles. See More

Top Pro

Markdown supported

This can be useful when formatting files in HTML. See More

Top Pro

Files can be uploaded by drag'n'drop

Top Pro

Highly compatible

Elephant is compatible with Mac OS, Windows, and Linux. See More

Top Pro

Active development

The developer has replied, and added many features which users have suggested in the comments on the website. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows; Linux; OSX

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Cloudup

Top Pro

Media can viewed instantly

When uploading videos, photos or audio, CloudUp will transcode a version of the media so that it can be viewed right from within the app without requiring a download. See More

Top Pro

Easy to use

After dragging & dropping files, a link for sharing will be in your clipboard. You can also paste from your clipboard into the web view. When you share a stream with someone they can start viewing it even before all files have been uploaded. All this makes it easy and straightforward to use. See More

Top Pro

Password-protected files and streams

You can choose to put up a password for certain files and streams. See More

Top Pro

Works on every platform

CloudUp is a web-based HTML5 app and website meaning it can be viewed from any modern browser form any device. There's a native desktop Mac and Windows app available and native iPhone and Android apps being worked on. See More

Top Pro

Free

Each user can upload 1000 items that are not bigger than 200MB for free. See More

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Seafile

Top Pro

Free and open source

Seafile community edition is licensed under GPLv2 with source code available on GitHub. See More

Top Con

Requires maintenance

You have to manually keep the server and clients up to date. See More

Top Pro

Client-side encryption

All files are transferred with AES 128 bit encryption. See More

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