File storage can be quite a painful issue if you have not used Dropbox yet. It allows you to store different files on a cloud drive and access to these files on any other computer or smartphone on Earth using your login.
Dropbox is the world’s most popular cloud storage, but what if you run out of space there? Besides, they had a few bugs over the past years that compromised 50 million accounts. You can get a premium account with more space, or simply use alternatives to Dropbox. There are numerous websites that are offering almost the same thing, and sometimes with better features and security.
If you are looking for cloud storage tools as Dropbox alternatives, enjoy this list. It was handpicked for you.
1. Sync
Just like Dropbox, Sync also lets you access and share all your files on any device. With its strong security you can ensure that only you have access to your important data.
Sync allows you to control password access, email notifications, expiry dates, and upload capacities. You can share access to any file with a link, and a user does not need to have Sync account to see the information.
Free Storage: 5 GB
Pricing: $49 per year to 500 GB of storage, or $96 per year for 2 TB of storage
2. pCloud
pCloud is a fast-growing cloud storage service with 7 million users worldwide. What makes it so different from Dropbox is that their desktop version does not use your computer storage space by default.
With the automated system you can move all your files from Dropbox to pCloud in just one click. It’s used by people working at Coca Cola, Uber, Twitter, and Nike.
Free Storage: 10 GB
Pricing: 500 GB — $3.99/month 500 GB — $175, one-off payment, lifetime plan 2 TB — $7.99/month 2 TB — $350, one-off payment, lifetime plan
3. Zoho Docs
Zoho Docs is a perfect tool for both small teams and large enterprises. It has some amazing features, such as Dropbox integration, email integration, access management, bulk upload, tagging, document editor, digital signature, and many many more.
Free Storage: 5GB
Pricing: Free for teams up to 25 users; 100GB for €4; and €6,4 for 1TB.
4. Google Drive
Google Drive is another Dropbox alternative tool, but both Dropbox and Drive are created by Google. Originally Google Drive was the best storage option for documents and sheets.
Many people can edit a document in Google Drive at the same time, which makes this tool unique. The tool also lets you leave comments on the document and collaborate with other users. Besides, with their speech-to-text tool you can type text with your voice, which is a highly useful feature for people who write a lot.
Free Storage: 15GB
Pricing: 100 GB — $1.99/month 1 TB — $9.99/month
5. Box
Box was found 2 years earlier than Dropbox. Initially, it’s a tool for business but you still can found some personal features there. First, it sounds perfect that they give you 10GB of storage for free, but they have a weird upload limit which is 250Mb.
You can’t upload a file larger than this size, for instance, a video or PSD file. It has a clean, modern interface, and it works fast even with a slow internet connection.
Free Storage: 10 GB
Pricing: 100 GB — €4/month Unlimited storage — €12/month
6. CloudUp
CloudUp makes the process of sharing files beautiful and straightforward for both the sender and the recipient. It allows you to upload any file from video to links and code. In order to share files with other users, you need to send them only a link.
It’s one of the biggest free storage and sharing software on the web. But at the same time, you can update your plan to the premium version, and you can’t make your storage plan bigger.
Free Storage: 200GB
Pricing: Free
7. SpiderOak
SpiderOak makes a perfect Dropbox alternative not only because it’s a secure cloud storage, but because it also offers excellent cloud backup. SpiderOak doesn’t provide you any free storage as well as any other cloud backup solution.
It is quite an expensive solution because 1TB of storage costs $30 more than on Dropbox. For those of you who need basic cloud storage and backup storage, it’s a perfect tool. It provides smooth easy-to-use experience for tech-savvy users.
Free Storage: Free for 21 days
Pricing: 150GB for $5/mo; 400GB for $9/mo; 1Tb for $12/mo
8. OneDrive
Onedrive is a Microsoft cloud storage that would be a perfect solution for Microsoft users. If you are an owner of Windows 10 computer then most likely you have Onedrive on your computer already, and you don’t need to install anything.
When you upgrade OneDrive to a premium plan, you get not only more storage but also a bigger uploading limit. Besides PDF scanner and some other features are available only for Premium users.
Free Storage: 5 GB
Pricing: 50 GB — $1.99/mo 1 TB — $6.99/mo
9. Mediafire
Originally, Mediafire was a simple file sharing service, but then they created cloud storage too. It’s just a simple tool to share files and folder; it does not also have many differences from other services.
Mediafire has an easy-to-use interface, and you can control the access to data from any device.
Free Storage: 10GB
Pricing: 1 TB — $7.50/month
10. Workzone
Workzone is sophisticated software for managing projects. It has useful features for file storage, managing, and sharing. It can come in handy for different teams.
It allows you to comment on images right from the interface which is a handy feature. Besides, it lets you keep track of all the revisions and file changes.
Free Storage: No
Pricing: You need to request prices for your team
11. Nextcloud
Nextcloud is a unique file-sharing website that allows public link shares with different access and rights. Small companies and Enterprise level businesses can use it. If you are a fan of open source projects or you have secured your priority, then this tool is right for you.
Free Storage: Depends on your hosting plan
Pricing: Depends on your hosting plan
12. CloudMe
CloudMe is a cloud storage service that offers you backup restore, storage, and sharing files. It also has seen capabilities just like Spideroak so you can easily transfer all your data from Dropbox to Cloudme in one click. By signing up for their account, you will get the 5GB of storage for free.
Free Storage: 5GB
Pricing: Team Plan 1 TB + 5 users with 100 GB € 149 / month; Business Plan 2 TB + 15 users with 100 GB € 279 / month
13. SugarSync
SugarSync is another alternative to Dropbox especially when it comes to the security of your files. With SugarSync, you can be sure that your files are safe.
As a cloud storage service, it allows users to upload files, sync files all across various devices, review latest versions, and even stream multimedia. Supersync has apps for iOS and Android which is very convenient.
Free Storage: Free for 30 days
Pricing:100GB for $7.49/mo; 250GB for $9.99/mo; 500GB for $18.95
14. Team Drive
Team Drive is a German project gives you high-quality cloud storage and also backup service. The main features are collaboration and ease of use.
You can upload any files to the system, edit, remove or share them with your business collaborators. The service will be more useful for business than for personal use.
Free Storage: 2GB
Pricing: 10GB for $59.50/year
15. Mega
Mega is a robust, secure cloud service gives you 15GB of storage for free when you sign up. Along with 2GB that gives Dropbox to their users, it’s huge.
Mega is not a tool that you can use for collaboration with other users, because it lacks some editing features. But at the same time, it’s one of the best zero-knowledge cloud storage services with affordable pricing plans.
Free Storage: 50GB
Pricing:
16. Egnyte
Egnyte doesn’t even have a personal pricing plan with free storage. Their pricing starts with the Office plan that has at least five users for $8. Egnyte Office Plan costs almost the same price as Dropbox Standard but gives you 3TB more space than Dropbox.
Free Storage: No
Pricing: Premium $8.33/mo – 200 GB Solo – $20/mo 2000 GB Business – $10/user/mo 1000 GB/user
17. Tresorit
Tresorit is a Swiss cloud storage service that claims itself as a secure one. Almost 1000 hackers were trying to hack their file encryption, and they failed.
With Dropbox, you need to move your files into a specific sync folder, but with Tresorit any folder on your computer could be cloud storage.
Free Storage: Send any file up to 5GB for free
Pricing: Premium for personal users $10.42 for 200GB; Small business (Secure file sync & sharing for teams) with 2-9 users $20 for 1TB
18. ownCloud
ownCloud is open source software and free for everybody to use. There are no limits for solo users on ownCloud. It is a private cloud that you can install on your own server or webspace. You can choose a webspace provider you trust, install ownCloud and have your own private file sharing cloud.
The website provides you easy to use interface with favorites, search, and tags to easily organize all your data.
Free Storage: It depends on the offer of your web space provider. Check this page for specific ownCloud webspace providers and look for those hosting partners tagged with the “free plans” label.
Pricing: The only thing you might have to pay for is the server space, depending on the pricing plans of the hosting service you choose.
19. Amazon Drive
Amazon Drive is a competitor to Dropbox, but it’s not that popular because it has storage, but it doesn’t have a syncing feature. Now they have added sync feature for Mac and Windows users. You need to have an Amazon account to use the Drive.
It offers 5GB of free storage and quite reasonable plans with 100GB of storage for $12 per year and 1TB of storage for $60 per year.
Free Storage: 5 GB
Pricing:100GB of storage for $12 per year and 1TB of storage for $60 per year.
20. Resilio
Resilio allows you to sync files between devices securely. There is no uploading to third-party servers when you transfer files between devices that’s why it is so safe.
Besides, you don’t even need an internet connection, Resilio uses local networks to transfer files. The Pro version comes with three synchronization modes, folder-level access controls and on-demand access to data. It will cost you $59.99 (one-time fee).
Free Storage: No
Pricing: $59.99 Pro version
21. Flickr
Flickr is a website for photographers where they can share their photography with other creatives around the web, and also store a significant amount of photos.
You can store 1000 pictures for free there. But if you have a more considerable number of files, you would need to buy a Pro plan with unlimited storage for $49.99 per year.
Free Storage: 1000 photos
Pricing: Pro plan with unlimited storage for $49.99 per year.
22. eFileCabinet
Search and share files with eFileCabinet quickly. It gives you role-based permission so that an admin can control access to files. It makes the tool a suitable option for teams.
Free Storage: No
Pricing: Request for pricing
23. Slack
Slack is a popular tool that helps teams communicate, share files, and keep all the correspondence in one place. You can chat with team members via chat, voice and video calls.
It features drag-and-drop file uploader that allows teams to share images, PDFs, documents, videos, and other content. You can use Slack for free with 5GB of space, or buy a pricing plan with 10GB of space for a team member.
Free Storage: 5GB
Pricing: 10 GB per team member for $8/mo
24. Filestack
Filestack offers users to upload and transfer files from any place on the web, including Dropbox. Their CDN lets you upload and share data fast. Among the features, you will find image tagging, cloud storage, document conversions, and more.
Free Storage: 1GB
Pricing: Start plan with 20GB of storage for $49.
25. Seafile
Seafile is an open source cloud storage with a free Community edition profile. You can organize your files into separate folders and then sync or share them with other people. From 10 to 249 users, it costs $44 per user.
Free Storage: Free for up to 3 users
Pricing: $44 for up to 249 users
26. Pydio
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Free Storage: Free for home use
Pricing: For request
27. WeTransfer
WeTransfer is one of my favorite apps in this list. I use it to transfer files up to 2GB to other people quickly. You can drag and drop the file you want to share, add recipient’s email address, and send data.
It’s one of the simplest ways to send big files on the web.
Free Storage: Free up to 2GB
Pricing: Send up 20GB at once for $120 per year
28. Fex.net
Fex net is a simple transfer files service that allows you to send or receive files. You can get up to 2TB of space for about $2 per month.
You can exchange files anonymously. It is one of the cheapest file transfer and storage services on this list.
Free Storage: No
Pricing: 10GB for $0,33 and 100GB for $0.78
29. Adobe Creative Cloud
Creative Cloud from Adobe gives you the best modern tools for editing photography, video, and files for the web. Their tools are widely used by photographers and designers all over the globe. Besides, they could be extremely helpful for those of you who need to create a portfolio.
Numerous tutorials can help you to get started. Besides, with Adobe Creative Cloud membership you have 100GB of storage space.
Free Storage: No
Pricing: 100GB of storage space as an Adobe Creative Cloud member
30. Degoo
Degoo is a service with zero knowledge encryption. You can connect all your cloud services in one place.
Sign up using your Google account. As a free user, you’ll get 100GB of secure cloud space.
Free Storage: 100GB
Pricing: 500Gb for $3 and 2Tb for $9.99
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