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Add to SafariWhen comparing Seafile vs SpiderOak, the Slant community recommends Seafile for most people. In the question“What are the best personal file-syncing solutions?” Seafile is ranked 6th while SpiderOak is ranked 8th. The most important reason people chose Seafile is:
Seafile community edition is licensed under GPLv2 with source code available on [GitHub](https://github.com/haiwen/seafile).
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Question Ranking
Pros
Pro Free and open source
Seafile community edition is licensed under GPLv2 with source code available on GitHub.
Pro Client-side encryption
All files are transferred with AES 128 bit encryption.
Pro Combines cloud syncing, storage service and backup client
Thus you have a single service for all of the things.
Pro Available for many platforms
The Spideroak client is available for Linux, MacOS, Windows, Android and iOS.
Pro Incrementals
SpiderOak updates only that part of the file that has changed, saving bandwidth and time.
Pro Zero knowledge
Data is locally encrypted before uploading to Spideroak. They cannot recover your data even if they wanted to since it is stored in encrypted state on their servers.
Pro Unintrusive
Cons
Con Requires maintenance
You have to manually keep the server and clients up to date.
