Features
Properties
- Lightweight
Integrations
Google Drive
MEGA
Nextcloud
Dropbox
- Openstack swift
Azure
Features
- File Sync
- Command line interface
- Cloud Sync
- Backup to Cloud Storage
- Synchronization
- End-to-End Encryption
- Multiple Account support
- Support for FTP
- Encrypted Backup
- WebDAV Support
- Portable
- No registration required
- Support for SFTP
- Incremental Backup
- Object storage
- Support for Multiple threads
Rclone News & Activities
Recent News
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A CLI tool that gives you super powers to do miracles with near all cloud providers, Google, Amazon, iCloud and a great many others.
This tool saved my bacon many times in past years.
Least we can do is thank those that created and maintain this miracle for us.
Ensure you use the official website and sources. {Some users made neg comments linking the wrong websites.}
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What is Rclone?
Rclone ("
rsync for cloud storage") is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers.
Features
MD5/SHA-1 hashes checked at all times for file integrity Timestamps preserved on files Partial syncs supported on a whole file basis Copy mode to just copy new/changed files Sync (one way) mode to make a directory identical Check mode to check for file hash equality Can sync to and from network, e.g. two different cloud accounts Optional large file chunking (Chunker) Optional transparent compression (Compress) Optional encryption (Crypt) Optional FUSE mount (rclone mount) Multi-threaded downloads to local disk Can serve local or remote files over HTTP/WebDav/FTP/SFTP/dlna
Storage providers
1Fichier Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun) Object Storage System (OSS) Amazon Drive Amazon S3 Backblaze B2 Box Ceph Citrix ShareFile DigitalOcean Spaces Dreamhost Dropbox Enterprise File Fabric FTP Google Cloud Storage Google Drive Google Photos HDFS (Hadoop Distributed Filesystem) HTTP Hubic Jottacloud IBM COS S3 Koofr Mail.ru Cloud Memset Memstore Mega Memory Microsoft Azure Blob Storage Microsoft OneDrive Minio Nextcloud OVH OpenDrive OpenStack Swift Oracle Cloud Storage ownCloud pCloud premiumize.me put.io QingStor Rackspace Cloud Files RackCorp Object Storage Scaleway Seafile SeaweedFS SFTP StackPath SugarSync Tardigrade Tencent Cloud Object Storage (COS) Wasabi WebDAV Yandex Disk Zoho WorkDrive The local filesystem
Rclone information
Developed by
Nick Craig-Wood Licensing
Open Source (MIT) and Free product.Written in
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Comments and Reviews
This is a powerful command-line tool designed for technical users, as the official web graphical user interface is no longer up to date. However, there are some excellent third-party web GUI applications that are user-friendly and perfect for beginners. [https://github.com/yuudi/rclone-webui-angular/] It uses the official application programming interface from specific cloud storage service providers if available. Usually, it is faster than common protocols such as WebDAV.
Nonsense, the tool is up to date.
This tool was made in heaven. One of the ever fewer miracles to work with even cloud.
As i write this on 2026.05.05: Releases 126, rclone v1.74.0, Latest, 3 days ago, + 125 releases. Sir, your url is wrong, use the official tool as per website: https://rclone.org/. Src: https://github.com/rclone/rclone
A CLI tool that gives you super powers to do miracles with near all cloud providers, Google, Amazon, iCloud and a great many others.
This tool saved my bacon many times in past years.
Least we can do is thank those that created and maintain this miracle for us.
Ensure you use the official website and sources. {Some users made neg comments linking the wrong websites.}
As i write this on 2026.05.05: Releases 126, rclone v1.74.0, Latest, 3 days ago, + 125 releases. URL website: https://rclone.org/. Src: https://github.com/rclone/rclone
The silver bullet for cloud storage. Unfortunatelly, there's no GUI.
It supports so many features and services !
Cloud storage powerhouse app. Connect/Sync/Backup all cloud services and mount like regular disk. Transaction beside device/among other services kind possiblites
rclone is the easiest way to mount online storage with winfsp software on Windows Explorer.
The GUI Rclone is quite good but not better than the alternatives and I can consider Syncback , Resilio and Gs Richcopy 360 . Also Goodsync is great