Filegear is described as 'The device that connects your new and existing hard drives into one place. Self-host your own private cloud and grow it's storage capacity by plugging additional drives into Filegear. Save room on your mobile phone by offloading all your photos to your Filegear' and is a File Sync tool in the backup & sync category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Filegear for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Windows, Mac, Android and iPhone apps. The best Filegear alternative is Dropbox, which is free. Other great apps like Filegear are Nextcloud, Syncthing, Google Drive and MEGA.