Self-hosted alternatives
Open source alternatives to Dropbox
Dropbox is hosted file sync and sharing for a team drive.
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Dropbox gives a team a hosted shared drive. A self-hosted option keeps those files on hardware your team runs, under access rules you set yourselves. All five listed projects carry OSI licences, yet only four count toward the open source minimum, because File Browser is archived on GitHub. Check each card's status line before you trust one with your files.
Published by Dropbox. The projects below are sorted by GitHub stars. Star counts and last commit dates are read from the public GitHub API. The line under each name is generated from the category, the licence, and whether the project can be self-hosted. Fetched . 4 of 5 have an OSI-approved SPDX licence, a commit in the last 12 months, and a repository GitHub has not archived.
1Syncthing
syncthing/syncthing
Files and passwords. Licence: MPL-2.0. Self-hosted: yes.
- Licence
- MPL-2.0
- GitHub stars
- 89,403
- Last commit
Counts as open source: OSI-approved licence, commit within 12 months, and the repository is not archived.
2Nextcloud server
nextcloud/server
Files and passwords. Licence: AGPL-3.0. Self-hosted: yes.
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
- GitHub stars
- 37,110
- Last commit
Counts as open source: OSI-approved licence, commit within 12 months, and the repository is not archived.
3File Browser
filebrowser/filebrowser
Files and passwords. Licence: Apache-2.0. Self-hosted: yes.
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- GitHub stars
- 35,893
- Last commit
Does not count toward the open source minimum. The repository is archived on GitHub.
4Seafile
haiwen/seafile
Files and passwords. Licence: GPL-2.0-only. Self-hosted: yes.
- Licence
- GPL-2.0-only
- GitHub stars
- 15,331
- Last commit
Counts as open source: OSI-approved licence, commit within 12 months, and the repository is not archived.
5ownCloud
owncloud/core
Files and passwords. Licence: AGPL-3.0. Self-hosted: yes.
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
- GitHub stars
- 8,833
- Last commit
Counts as open source: OSI-approved licence, commit within 12 months, and the repository is not archived.