Alternatives to ExpanDrive
Mounts cloud storage and file servers as native drives on macOS, Windows and Linux. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
ExpanDrive
Mounts cloud storage and file servers as native drives on macOS, Windows and Linux.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as ExpanDrive.
Mountain Duck
Mounts remote and cloud storage as a local drive.
Mountain Duck mounts remote and cloud storage as a local drive with Cryptomator vault support, but is paid per user and has no Linux build.
NetDrive
A program that mounts cloud and remote storage as a local drive on Windows and macOS.
NetDrive mounts remote storage as a drive on Windows and macOS with file locking and a team plan, and requires a commercial license.
RaiDrive
Maps cloud storage and remote servers as drives in Windows File Explorer or a Linux file manager.
RaiDrive maps cloud, S3, WebDAV, SFTP and FTP storage as drives on Windows and Linux, with no macOS version.
CloudMounter
A desktop app that mounts cloud storage accounts as local drives in Finder and Explorer.
CloudMounter mounts Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive and S3 as drives on macOS and Windows, with no Linux version.
RcloneView
A graphical file manager built on rclone for browsing, syncing and mounting cloud storage.
RcloneView offers free mounting through rclone's 70+ providers plus syncing and encryption, on Windows, macOS and Android but not Linux.
SSHFS-Win
Mounts a remote directory over SSH as a Windows drive letter.
SSHFS-Win is free and open source but Windows only and limited to SSH servers, mounted as a drive letter after installing WinFsp.
Also worth comparing
These listings name ExpanDrive as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Air Explorer
Desktop app for managing, transferring, syncing and encrypting files across many cloud storage accounts.
ExpanDrive mounts clouds and servers as native drives on Windows, macOS and Linux, streaming files on demand instead of offering a transfer and sync window.
davfs2
A Linux file system driver that mounts a WebDAV resource as a regular directory.
ExpanDrive mounts WebDAV plus FTP, SFTP, S3 and major clouds as drives on Linux, macOS and Windows, but it is proprietary software, free only for personal use.
Insync
A desktop sync client for Google Drive, OneDrive and Dropbox on Linux, Windows and macOS.
ExpanDrive mounts major clouds plus FTP, SFTP, WebDAV and S3 as native drives that stream on demand, and it is free for personal use rather than paid.
odrive
Desktop sync client that keeps Procore and other cloud documents in sync on Windows and Mac.
ExpanDrive mounts major clouds and file servers as drives on macOS, Windows and Linux, is free for personal use, and streams files rather than syncing them.
Rclone
A command line tool that syncs, copies and mounts files across more than seventy cloud storage services.
ExpanDrive mounts S3, SFTP, WebDAV and major clouds as native drives with a graphical interface, but it is proprietary and focused on mounting rather than scripted sync.
StableBit CloudDrive
A Windows app that creates encrypted virtual hard drives whose data is stored with a cloud provider.
ExpanDrive runs on Windows, macOS and Linux and is free for personal use, but it streams files on demand rather than offering encrypted local caching.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Cyberduck
A server and cloud storage browser for Mac and Windows that speaks FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, SMB and every major object store.
Rclone UI
A cross-platform desktop graphical interface for rclone and S3 storage.
Owlfiles
A cross-platform file manager for local, network, NAS and cloud storage, formerly FE File Explorer.
Transmit
A macOS file transfer client for FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3 and cloud storage services.
