When comparing Wuala vs SpiderOak, the Slant community recommends SpiderOak for most people. In the question“What are the best personal file-syncing solutions?” SpiderOak is ranked 8th while Wuala is ranked 33rd. The most important reason people chose SpiderOak is:
Thus you have a single service for all of the things.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Client-side encryption
Wuala encrypts the data on your computer before it is uploaded.
Pro Best privacy
Pro Combines cloud syncing, storage service and backup client
Thus you have a single service for all of the things.
Pro Incrementals
SpiderOak updates only that part of the file that has changed, saving bandwidth and time.
Pro Available for many platforms
The Spideroak client is available for Linux, MacOS, Windows, Android and iOS.
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 No longer developed
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.