Alternatives and competitors

Sites like iCloud

The 20 closest cloud storage alternatives to iCloud, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 1 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to iCloud? The closest matches are Dropbox, Samsung Cloud and acrobat.com. 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 iCloud

iCloud icloud.com

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.

Wikidata: cloud storage and cloud computing system

Top 100 · #55 English 1 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit iCloud

Summary by Claude

Apple's personal cloud service for storing and syncing photos, mail, contacts, calendars, notes, files and device backups across Apple devices and Windows, with a web interface for access and Find My device tracking.

Who it’s for
Apple device users
Business model
Subscriptions (paid storage tiers)

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to iCloud’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

MediaFireBoxXero4sharedCloudinaryTeraBoxmail.comacrobat.comSamsung CloudDropbox

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to iCloud

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

Only in English
  1. 01
    Dropbox dropbox.com Top 1K English

    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.

  2. 02
    Samsung Cloud samsungcloud.com Top 1K English

    Samsung Cloud

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

  3. 03
    acrobat.com Top 10K

    PDF service from Adobe

  4. 04
    mail.com Top 10K English

    Free email accounts | Register today at mail.com

    Email how it is supposed to be: ✔ Free, simple and secure ✔ Manage multiple mail accounts in one place, from any device ✔ Sign up today!

  5. 05
    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.

  6. 06
    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.

  7. 07
    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.

  8. 08
    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.

  9. 09
    Xero xero.com Top 10K English

    Accounting Software for Small Businesses | Xero

    Xero software for small businesses connects you to your bank, accountant, bookkeeper, and other business apps. Start a free trial today.

  10. 10
    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.

  11. 11
    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.

  12. 12
    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.

  13. 13
    Syncthing syncthing.net Top 10K English

    Syncthing

    open source continuous file synchronization software

  14. 14
    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.

  15. 15
    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.

  16. 16
    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.

  17. 17
    Backblaze backblaze.com Top 10K English

    High-Performance Cloud Storage for AI Workloads | Backblaze

    Neoclouds, GenAI devs, and AI-forward builders rely on B2 Cloud Storage for high-throughput, data-heavy workloads. S3-compatible object storage without limits.

  18. 18
    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.

  19. 19
    myworkday.com Top 10K English

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    Photobucket photobucket.com Top 10K

    American photo storage and image hosting website

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

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

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

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Competitors by meaning, stacks from the source. Data from public homepages and DNS.

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