Alternatives to CloudMounter
A desktop app that mounts cloud storage accounts as local drives in Finder and Explorer. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
CloudMounter
A desktop app that mounts cloud storage accounts as local drives in Finder and Explorer.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as CloudMounter.
ExpanDrive
Mounts cloud storage and file servers as native drives on macOS, Windows and Linux.
ExpanDrive adds a Linux version and mounts FTP, SFTP, WebDAV and S3 too, is free for personal use, and can pin files for offline access.
NetDrive
A program that mounts cloud and remote storage as a local drive on Windows and macOS.
NetDrive mounts cloud and remote storage on Windows and macOS with file locking and team shared drives, but requires a commercial license.
Rclone
A command line tool that syncs, copies and mounts files across more than seventy cloud storage services.
Rclone is free and open source under MIT and mounts over seventy services, but it is command-line only and needs WinFsp or FUSE for mounting.
RaiDrive
Maps cloud storage and remote servers as drives in Windows File Explorer or a Linux file manager.
RaiDrive supports a long list of cloud and S3-compatible providers on Windows and Linux, but has no macOS version, unlike CloudMounter.
RcloneView
A graphical file manager built on rclone for browsing, syncing and mounting cloud storage.
RcloneView offers free mounting of rclone's 70+ providers with client-side encryption and folder comparison, on Windows, macOS and Android.
StableBit CloudDrive
A Windows app that creates encrypted virtual hard drives whose data is stored with a cloud provider.
StableBit CloudDrive is paid and Windows only, creating encrypted virtual hard drives stored with a cloud provider, including any S3-compatible service, with local caching.
Air Explorer
Desktop app for managing, transferring, syncing and encrypting files across many cloud storage accounts.
Air Explorer manages more than 50 cloud services with file encryption and scheduled sync, working as a file manager rather than mounting drives in Finder or Explorer.
Also worth comparing
These listings name CloudMounter as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Insync
A desktop sync client for Google Drive, OneDrive and Dropbox on Linux, Windows and macOS.
CloudMounter mounts Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive and S3 as drives in Finder and Explorer instead of syncing them, and it has no Linux version.
Mountain Duck
Mounts remote and cloud storage as a local drive.
CloudMounter is freemium on macOS and Windows, mounting Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive and S3 without Cryptomator vault support listed.
MultCloud
Web service that transfers, syncs and backs up files between different cloud storage accounts.
CloudMounter mounts cloud accounts as drives on macOS and Windows and moves files between clouds, but it is closed source and has no Linux version.
odrive
Desktop sync client that keeps Procore and other cloud documents in sync on Windows and Mac.
CloudMounter mounts Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive and Amazon S3 as drives on macOS and Windows, but does not list Procore or SharePoint support.
SSHFS-Win
Mounts a remote directory over SSH as a Windows drive letter.
CloudMounter is closed-source freemium software for Windows and macOS that mounts cloud accounts like Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive and Amazon S3 as drives.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
CryFS
An encrypted filesystem that protects files stored in cloud storage, including their metadata and folder structure.
MSP360 Explorer
A file manager for moving and managing files between local storage and cloud storage services.
Koofr
European cloud storage service that can also connect and search your other cloud accounts.
