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Feature & Performance Comparison

Mountain Duck appears to be reliable and the Finder integration turns Finder into a fully-functional SFTP client - this is no easy feature and I’ve not yet found anything that actually works, all the time - Expandrive, Transmit, oDrive, SSHFS, Cloud Mounter, etc. all fall on their face fairly early on. I spend a lot of time on remote hosts editing files and this really helps; thanks!

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Comparison with client applications from OneDrive, Dropbox and Google Drive. Instead use Mountain Duck to access your personal file storage with smart synchronization to only keep selected files on your computer permanently.

Mountain Duck

OneDrive

Dropbox

Google Drive

Selectively keep files offline

✅

✅

❌ 1

❌ 1

Online mode with no local disk usage

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❌ 2

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1 You can only choose which folder to synchronize with your computer but lose access to other files.

2 You can keep files online but OneDrive downloads the files on demand and you must free disk space again manually.

Comparison with third party solutions to mount remote storage on your desktop. Mountain Duck 3, combined with any cloud storage, is a viable, more secure solution to synchronize access to documents on multiple computers and users.

Mountain Duck

Version 3

Expandrive

Version 7

TNTDrive

Version 4

NetDrive

Version 3

CloudBerry Drive

Version 2

CloudMounter

Version 1

Client-side encryption

✅ Cryptomator

❌

❌

❌

❌

❌

Mount as read-only filesystem

✅

✅

✅

❌

✅

❌

Disconnect mounted drive in Windows File Explorer

✅

❌ Access Denied

❌ The system cannot find the path specified

❌ Access Denied

❌

❌ An error occured while ejecting

Roaming profile for application support data

✅

✅

✅

✅

❌

❌

Smart Synchronization

✅Keep all opened files on your computer for faster edits and synchronize changes in the background.

❌

❌

❌

❌

❌

Make files available offline

✅Select files and folders to keep always offline in the file explorer. Upload changes when server is reachable.

❌

✅

❌

❌

❌

Mount volume when offline

✅Allow to browse folders when offline and work with files in local cache

❌

❌

❌

❌

❌

Upload changes in background

✅

❌

✅

❌

❌

❌

Badge icons in Windows File Explorer

✅Sync status for files and folders

✅

❌

❌

❌

❌

FTP and FTP with Transport Layer Security (TLS)

✅

✅

❌

✅

❌

❌

SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol)

✅

✅

❌

✅

❌

❌

WebDAV

✅

✅

❌

✅

❌

❌

Amazon S3

✅

✅

✅

✅

✅

❌

Microsoft Azure Blob Storage

✅

✅

❌

❌

✅

❌

Google Cloud Storage

✅

✅

❌

✅

✅

❌

OpenStack Swift

✅

✅

❌

✅

✅

❌

Microsoft OneDrive

✅

✅

❌

✅

❌

✅

Backblaze B2

✅

✅

❌

❌

❌

❌

Google Drive

✅

✅

❌

✅

❌

✅

Dropbox

✅

✅

❌

✅

❌

✅

Mountain Duck

Version 3

Transmit Disk

Version 4

ExpanDrive

Version 7

CloudMounter

Version 3

✅ No admin privileges required.

✅ No installation required.

☑️ Requires admin privilege to install FUSE kernel extensions and libraries

☑️ Requires admin privilege to install FUSE kernel extensions and libraries

✅

Available in Mac App Store

✅

❌

❌

✅

Client-side encryption

✅

❌

❌

☑️

Mount as read-only filesystem

✅

✅

✅

❌

Copy URLs from Finder Extension

✅

❌

✅

✅️

Smart Synchronization

✅Keep all opened files on your computer for faster edits and synchronize changes in the background.

❌

❌

❌

Make files available offline

✅Select files and folders to keep always offline in the file explorer. Upload changes when server is reachable.

❌

✅

❌

Mount volume when offline

✅Allow to browse folders when offline and work with files in local cache

❌

❌

❌

Upload changes in background

✅

❌

✅

❌

Badge icons in Finder

✅Sync status for files and folders

❌

✅

❌

FTP and FTP with Transport Layer Security (TLS)

✅

✅

✅

✅

SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol)

✅

✅

✅

✅

Authenticate with one-time passcode

✅

❌

✅

❌

WebDAV

✅

✅

✅

✅

Authenticate with client certificate (TLS mutual authentication)

✅

❌

❌

❌

Amazon S3

✅

☑️Regions with AWS4 signature version requirement not supported

✅

✅

Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration

✅

❌

❌

❌

Create pre-signed temporary URLs for selected files

✅Using context menu from Finder Extension

❌

❌

❌

Microsoft Azure Blob Storage

✅

❌

✅

❌

Google Cloud Storage

✅

❌

✅

❌

OpenStack Swift

✅

❌

✅

❌

Google Drive

✅

❌

✅

✅

Open Google Docs Documents

✅

❌

✅

❌

Open files in Team Drives

✅

❌

✅

❌

Dropbox

✅

❌

✅

✅

Microsoft OneDrive

✅

❌

✅

✅

Backblaze B2

✅

❌

✅

❌