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Rclone

Versatile command-line utility for syncing, copying, and verifying files across local disks and multiple cloud storage providers. Features include hash-based integrity checks, timestamp preservation, compression, encryption, and mounting storage as drives for backup and transfer tasks.

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source (MIT)

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Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • BSD
  • Oracle Solaris
  • FreeBSD
  • NetBSD
  • OpenBSD
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Comments and Reviews

   
Comment summary: Rclone is praised for its reliability, broad cross-platform support, and ability to mount cloud storage in a manner similar to desktop solutions like MountainDuck. While its command-line interface is powerful and aids in complex tasks like encryption, this can be intimidating for new users. A minimalist GUI exists, but does not compete with alternatives like GoodSync and Cryptomator. Moreover, Rclone seamlessly integrates with various cloud providers, offering speed and flexibility.
Top Positive Comment
WeiHua Liu
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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.

Fnalternativeto Lnalternativeto
Replying to @WeiHua Liu

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

Fnalternativeto Lnalternativeto
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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.}

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

hashzero
1

The silver bullet for cloud storage. Unfortunatelly, there's no GUI.

playmobilmeister
2

It supports so many features and services !

costanza6221
3

Cloud storage powerhouse app. Connect/Sync/Backup all cloud services and mount like regular disk. Transaction beside device/among other services kind possiblites

François d'Arundel
1

rclone is the easiest way to mount online storage with winfsp software on Windows Explorer.

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Adrians
0

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

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Install from the command line

  • winget install -e --id Rclone.Rclone
  • brew install rclone

Be careful what you paste into a terminal. Check what a command installs before running it.

What is Rclone?

Rclone ("rsync icon 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

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Backup & Sync, Development, File Management, Network & Admin, OS & Utilities, Security & Privacy

GitHub repository

  •  60,197 Stars
  •  5,493 Forks
  •  1315 Open Issues
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Our users have written 16 comments and reviews about Rclone, and it has gotten 192 likes

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