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.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 4,032
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 15 ms
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
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
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to iCloud
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to iCloud, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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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.
Very close cos 0.905 - 02
Samsung Cloud
See what's synced and backed up across your Samsung devices.
Close cos 0.894 - 03 Close cos 0.891
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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!
Close cos 0.893 - 05
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.
Close cos 0.886 - 06
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.
Close cos 0.887 - 07
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.
Close cos 0.886 - 09
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.
Close cos 0.882 - 10
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.
Close cos 0.878 - 11
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.
Close cos 0.881 - 12
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.
Close cos 0.877 - 13
Syncthing
open source continuous file synchronization software
Close cos 0.871 - 14
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.
Close cos 0.874 - 15
Control your data governance with an independent cloud. Solutions hosted in the heart of Europe, designed to protect your confidentiality.
Close cos 0.874 - 16
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.
Close cos 0.873 - 17
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.
Close cos 0.868 - 18
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.
Close cos 0.868 - 19
Page not found.
Close cos 0.869 - 20
American photo storage and image hosting website
Close cos 0.868
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.
Built with
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=Gc0Hl3EIrWDLXgisvPdkUCAEwNs0gg5JHtd2pZD3J04
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what iCloud adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on icloud.com 10/20
- Google Workspace · not on icloud.com 9/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on icloud.com 9/20
- Apple Business · not on icloud.com 8/20
- Atlassian · not on icloud.com 8/20
- jQuery · not on icloud.com 7/20
- OpenAI · not on icloud.com 6/20
- Stripe · not on icloud.com 6/20
- React · not on icloud.com 6/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on icloud.com 6/20
- Adobe · not on icloud.com 5/20
- Proofpoint · not on icloud.com 5/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on icloud.com 5/20
- OneTrust · not on icloud.com 5/20
- DocuSign · not on icloud.com 4/20