Alternatives and competitors

Sites like Dropbox

The 20 closest cloud file storage alternatives to Dropbox, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 19 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to Dropbox? The closest matches are iCloud, Syncthing and MediaFire. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.

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01 · Entity

About Dropbox

Dropbox dropbox.com

Dropbox: Secure cloud storage, file sharing, and more

Discover Dropbox – secure, easy cloud storage for file sharing and collaboration. With Dash, save time and organize all your company content in one place.

Wikidata: cloud storage and file synchronization service

Top 1K · #134 English 19 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
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Summary by Claude

Dropbox is a cloud storage and file synchronization service for storing, syncing and sharing files, with tools for e-signatures, file review, search across company content (Dash) and integrations with AI assistants.

Who it’s for
Individuals, teams and businesses
Business model
Freemium subscriptions

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Dropbox’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

WeTransferCloudinarypixeldrainSamsung CloudTeraBoxBox4sharedMediaFireSyncthingiCloud

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Dropbox

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Dropbox, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Only in English
  1. 01
    iCloud icloud.com Top 100 English

    iCloud

    Log in to iCloud to access your photos, mail, notes, documents and more. Sign in with your Apple Account or create a new account to start using Apple services.

  2. 02
    Syncthing syncthing.net Top 10K English

    Syncthing

    open source continuous file synchronization software

  3. 03
    MediaFire mediafire.com Top 1K English

    File sharing and storage made simple

    MediaFire is a simple to use free service that lets you put all your photos, documents, music, and video in a single place so you can access them anywhere and share them everywhere.

  4. 04
    4shared 4shared.com Top 10K English

    4shared - free file sharing and storage

    Online file sharing and storage - 15 GB free web space. Easy registration. File upload progressor. Multiple file transfer. Fast download.

  5. 05
    Box box.com Top 1K English

    Box | AI-Powered Content Management, Workflow & Collaboration

    Intelligent Content Management makes it easy to automate workflows, collaborate internally and externally, and protect your sensitive data, all on one platform.

  6. 06
    TeraBox terabox.com Top 10K English

    TeraBox - Free Cloud Storage Up To 1 TB, Send Large Files Online

    TeraBox offers 1 tb free cloud storage & online file transfer. Login or Download TeraBox app to get 1 tb storage and use it on your PC, Mac, iPhone & Android.

  7. 07
    Samsung Cloud samsungcloud.com Top 1K English

    Samsung Cloud

    See what's synced and backed up across your Samsung devices.

  8. 08
    pixeldrain pixeldrain.com Top 10K English

    Cloud storage and data transfer services ~ pixeldrain

    Pixeldrain is a file transfer service, you can upload any file and you will be given a shareable link right away. pixeldrain also supports previews for images, videos, audio, PDFs and much more.

  9. 09
    Cloudinary cloudinary.com Top 1K English

    Image and Video Platform for Visual Experiences | Cloudinary

    Streamline media management and improve user experience by automatically delivering images and videos, enhanced and optimized for every user.

  10. 10
    WeTransfer wetransfer.com Top 10K English

    WeTransfer | Skicka stora filer snabbt

    Det enkla, snabba och säkra sättet att skicka filer till hela världen utan ett konto. Dela filer, foton och videor idag helt gratis.

  11. 11
    Nextcloud nextcloud.com Top 10K English

    Nextcloud - Open source content collaboration platform

    The most popular open source content collaboration platform for tens of millions of users at thousands of organizations across the globe

  12. 12
    SlideShare slideshare.net Top 1K English

    Client Challenge

    American hosting service, owned by Scribd, for professional content including presentations, infographics, documents, and videos

  13. 13
    Synology synology.com Top 1K English

    Synology Inc.

    Synology uniquely enables you to manage, secure, and protect your data - at the scale needed to accommodate the exponential data growth of the digital world.

  14. 14
    Scribd scribd.com Top 1K English

    Scribd: Home to the world’s documents.

    Get to the source. Specialized knowledge on any topic, and answers you won’t find anywhere else. Home to the world’s documents, 300M+ and counting.

  15. 15
    Zotero zotero.org Top 10K English

    Zotero | Your personal research assistant

    Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.

  16. 16
    Docker docker.com Top 1K English

    Docker | Secure Sandboxes for AI Agents

    Run AI agents and containers safely, anywhere. Docker gives builders trusted sandboxes, governance, and a secure supply chain for modern software.

  17. 17
    ImageShack imageshack.com Top 10K English

    ImageShack: Image Hosting & Photo Sharing

    Image hosting and photo storage for your high-res photos. Upload, organize into albums and share anywhere with ImageShack. Plans from $3.99/month.

  18. 18
    Infomaniak SA infomaniak.com Top 10K English

    Control your data governance with an independent cloud. Solutions hosted in the heart of Europe, designed to protect your confidentiality.

  19. 19
    Slack slack.com Top 1K English

    Slack | AI Work Platform & Productivity Tools

    Boost productivity and save time with Slack‌ — ‌the AI work platform for managing projects, automating workflows, and connecting teams securely. Start working smarter today.

  20. 20
    AliDropship sellvir.com Top 10K English

    Portal Home - Hosting AliDropship

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to dropbox.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Dropbox uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What Dropbox is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

Built with

Marketing automation
  • HubSpot TXT hubspot-developer-verification=YTQ0MmYzMzItYjhhOC00YzhlLTg3ZDYtMjU3NW…
  • Marketo TXT v=spf1 ip4:45.58.64.0/20 ip4:185.45.8.0/22 ip4:162.125.0.0/16 ip4:199…
Live chat & support
  • Zendesk TXT v=spf1 ip4:45.58.64.0/20 ip4:185.45.8.0/22 ip4:162.125.0.0/16 ip4:199…
Payments
  • Stripe TXT stripe-verification=7f4c0115f99ee7bc4ed67beff4365dd6b29ec5e4cfca03b87…
Web servers
  • Envoy header server: envoy
Email hosting
Email delivery
  • Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 ip4:45.58.64.0/20 ip4:185.45.8.0/22 ip4:162.125.0.0/16 ip4:199…
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=4977108a-46c6-4763-a3cc-b23b3d87e5cc
  • Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=6wGFrdfZ2TC4HlEk
  • Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=yjrZDQ/hCS3k4pk87lelfsKb7+aOLpQPPgowWw/…
  • DocuSign TXT docusign=a3cf77c9-f563-4c9b-8cbb-73c5322feb8e
  • Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=6Gs0C-CwJui707tVZirEFGKvKfGtwwZf2Snzz0-2nUQ
  • Miro TXT miro-verification=06f0d83f07b5b7c1936df29f6dc8a6a11cf82d08
  • Notion TXT notion-domain-verification=enHWmn6FFlHvaUid8AdXGKPkDn7j1VVAKudIomtvw0z
  • OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-taySZvuNYfU5nkRTfwxixP7F
  • Slack TXT slack-domain-verification=1qkjOc6gwuxLaFmX90NDKDiQVw0k4aNHyeT15kdt

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