IDrive Alternatives
IDrive is described as 'Get 5 GB of full featured Online Backup for free' and is an app in the Backup & Sync category. There are more than 100 alternatives to IDrive for a variety of platforms, including Windows, the Web, Mac, Android and iPhone. The best alternative is Dropbox, which is free. Other great apps like IDrive are Google Drive (Freemium), MEGA (Freemium), Duplicati (Free, Open Source) and MediaFire (Freemium).
- Online backup for $5 month unlimited space. Backblaze backup encrypts and uploads all your data – no questions asked. No picking files. No digging through folders. View 70 alternatives to BackBlaze
BackBlaze
Sponsored- Paid • Proprietary
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- Windows
- Worlds leading online storage and file sync service. You get 2GB free. Apps for all major platforms. View 288 alternatives to Dropbox
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Blackberry
- Chrome OS
- Windows S
- Windows Phone
- iPad
- Kindle Fire
Dropbox vs IDrive
JohnFastman Dropbox does not offer end-to-end encryption and so does not protect your data from ransomware or any hackers that might breach their servers (and this has happened before). Dropbox also stores your data in a way that's readable to them, which means they have to hand it over when asked for it for government surveillance. This is not a problem for iDrive if you use the private key option because then only you can read your stuff. - Google Drive is a file storage and synchronization service which enables user cloud storage, file sharing and collaborative editing. View 224 alternatives to Google Drive
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Chrome OS
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
Google Drive vs IDrive
JohnFastman Google Drive does not offer end-to-end encryption and therefore does not protect your data from ransomware. Google also stores your data in a format readable to them, which they can (and do) harvest your private data and hand it over when asked for it by government surveillance. This is not a problem for iDrive if you use the private key option because only you can read your stuff. - MEGA, the successor of MegaUpload , is a cloud storage and file hosting service produced by Mega Limited. View 195 alternatives to MEGA
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Chrome OS
- Windows S
- Android Tablet
- Windows Phone
- iPad
- Google Chrome
- Firefox
- Duplicati is a backup client that securely stores encrypted, incremental, compressed backups on local storage, cloud storage services and remote file servers. The Duplicati project was inspired by Duplicity and had similar functionality until 2008. View 117 alternatives to Duplicati
- MediaFire is the simple solution for uploading and downloading files on the internet. View 259 alternatives to MediaFire
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Blackberry 10
- SpiderOak provides an easy, secure and consolidated online backup, storage, access, sharing & sync tool for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Ubuntu, Debian & Fedora). View 160 alternatives to Spideroak One Backup
- Paid • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- iPad
- Xfce
Spideroak One Backup vs IDrive
JohnFastman iDrive is about backup more than it is about sync (you backup your own data and sync your own computers, rather than sync with those of others). SpiderOak does the same. Importantly, both have "zero-knowledge" setups to ensure that no one except you - not even they - can see the data you are storing on their servers. SpiderOak is probably more established/reliable, iDrive has the superior mobile app (can backup your phone, not just download). iDrive has no Linux client. - Yandex.Disk is a free cloud storage service that gives you access to your photos, videos and documents from any internet-enabled device. View 160 alternatives to Yandex.Disk
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- Windows Phone
- iPad
- Online backup for $5 month unlimited space. Backblaze backup encrypts and uploads all your data – no questions asked. No picking files. No digging through folders. View 70 alternatives to BackBlaze
- Paid • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Sync makes it easy to store, share and access your files from everywhere - your privacy guaranteed. Get 5GB free or 500GB Pro account for $49/yr. View 107 alternatives to Sync.com
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
Sync.com vs IDrive
JohnFastman Sync.com is more about syncing Dropbox-style but with encryption/privacy in mind. iDrive is more about backing up your computer and files than about syncing with others (although you can sync between your own computers). Both implement strong encryption to ensure privacy is much much better than Dropbox, GoogleDrive. Neither Sync.com nor iDrive are convenient for Linux users.