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Self-Hosted Storage Software: 168 Picks Ranked
The best open-source storage apps you can host yourself: Nextcloud leads. See pricing, specs and alternatives.
Quick answer: Nextcloud is the best self-hosted Storage app on PickYour.App right now — 124 000 installs and climbing. Syncthing is the runner-up. Start with the leader. Switch later.
This guide covers 168 storage tools you can run yourself. No seat fees. No lock-in. Prices below are live server costs from the install wizard.
168 Storage apps at a glance
Ranked by real installs on PickYour.App · updated Oct 2026.
| # | App | Category | Installs | From |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | N Nextcloud Files, calendar & collaboration in one suite | Storage | 124 000 | €0.092/hr |
| 2 | S Syncthing P2P file sync between your devices | Storage | 88 000 | €0.018/hr |
| 3 | I Immich Self-hosted photo & video backup | Storage | 75 000 | €0.046/hr |
| 4 | M MinIO S3-compatible object storage | Storage | 47 000 | €0.046/hr |
| 5 | S Seafile Fast file sync & sharing | Storage | 34 000 | €0.046/hr |
| 6 | D Duplicati Encrypted backups to any storage | Storage | 31 000 | €0.023/hr |
| 7 | K Kopia Fast encrypted incremental backups | Storage | 26 000 | €0.023/hr |
| 8 | 0 015 A temporary file sharing platform. Focused on providing one-time, temporary file and text upload, processing, and sharing services. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 9 | 1 1time Zero-knowledge one-time secret sharing. Create a one-time link for a password, API key, or file. Encrypted client-side in the browser, never reaches the server in | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 10 | A AdGuardHome Sync Sync AdGuard Home configs across instances | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 11 | A AirPipe P2P file transfers between devices | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 12 | A Apaxy Theme built to enhance the experience of browsing web directories, using the modautoindex Apache module and some CSS to override the default style of a directory listing. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 13 | A ArchiveBox Create HTML & screenshot archives of sites from your bookmarks, browsing history, RSS feeds, or other sources (alternative to Wayback Machine). | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 14 | A ArchivesSpace Archives information management application for managing and providing Web access to archives, manuscripts and digital objects. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 15 | A Atuin Sync shell history across devices | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 16 | B Backrest Web UI and orchestrator for restic backup | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 17 | B BackupPC High-performance backups to a server | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 18 | B Bichon Email archiving server that syncs from IMAP accounts, indexes emails for full-text search, and provides a REST API. No external database required, includes WebUI with | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 19 | B BinPastes Minimal pastebin supporting client-side encryption, fulltext search, one-time messages. Intended for one to few users looking for a simple pastebin deployment. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 20 | B bitmagnet BitTorrent indexer, DHT crawler, content classifier and torrent search engine with web UI, GraphQL API and Servarr stack integration. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 21 | B bittorrent-tracker Simple, robust, BitTorrent tracker (client and server) implementation. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 22 | B Borg Deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 23 | B Borg Backup Server Centrally manage BorgBackup across endpoints | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 24 | B Borg UI Modern web interface for Borg Backup | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 25 | B ByteStash Pastebin and file storage service with a simple web interface. Supports syntax highlighting, optional user authentication and public sharing. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 26 | C Chibisafe File uploader service that aims to to be easy to use and set up. It accepts files, photos, documents, anything you imagine and gives you back a shareable link for you to | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 27 | C Chiyogami Pastebin with API, client-side encryption, user accounts, syntax highlighting, markdown rendering, and more. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 28 | C CKAN Make open data websites. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 29 | C Cloudreve File management and sharing system, supports multiple storage providers. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 30 | C Cobalt Fast, friendly media downloader | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 31 | C Collective Access - Providence Highly configurable Web-based framework for management, description, and discovery of digital and physical collections supporting a variety of metadata standards, data | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 32 | C copyparty Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, deduplication, WebDAV, FTP, zeroconf, media indexer, video thumbnails, audio transcoding, and write-only | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 33 | C Cryptgeon Open source note and file sharing service | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 34 | D Databasus PostgreSQL backup tool | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 35 | D Deluge Lightweight, cross-platform BitTorrent client. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 36 | D Digirecord Record and share audio files (documentation in French). | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 37 | D Directory Lister Simple PHP based directory lister that lists a directory and all its sub-directories and allows you to navigate there within. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 38 | D Docker Volume Backup Backup Docker volumes to compatible storage backends | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 39 | D dpaste Simple pastebin with multiple text and code option, with short url result easy to remember. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 40 | D DumbDrop Stupidly simple file uploads | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 41 | D Duplicacy New generation cross-platform cloud backup tool | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 42 | E elixire Simple yet advanced screenshot uploading and link shortening service. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 43 | E Eonvelope Email archiving software that allows you to preserve your emails for an indefinite long period of time. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 44 | E Erugo Easy-to-deploy file sharing app with a sleek interface | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 45 | E EteSync Secure syncing for contacts, calendars, tasks, and notes | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 46 | E Etherpad Highly customizable online editor providing collaborative editing in real-time. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 47 | F FerriShare Simple file sharing app with E2E encryption | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 48 | F FileGator FileGator is a powerful multi-user file manager with a single page front-end. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 49 | F FilePizza Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 50 | F FileRise Web file manager with uploads, tagging, share links, gallery/table views, and an in-browser editor. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 51 | F FileRun Complete solution for your files with integration with Google and Office. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 52 | F Files Sharing File sharing application based on unique and temporary links. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 53 | F Filestash Web file manager that lets you manage your data anywhere it is located: FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Git, S3, Minio, Dropbox, or Google Drive. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 54 | F FileSync Encrypted, real-time file sharing | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 55 | F Flare A nonbloated, modern, and highly configurable file/screenshot vault server with support for ShareX, Flameshot, and Spectacle. Offers OCR search and more. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 56 | F FlashPaper One-time encrypted password and secret sharing | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 57 | F Flood Modern web UI for various torrent clients | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 58 | F FTPGrab Easily grab files periodically from a remote server | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 59 | G Garage S3-compatible object store | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 60 | G GarageHQ Geo-distributed, S3‑compatible storage service that can fulfill many needs. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 61 | G Giraffile Private local file sharing | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 62 | G Git Annex File synchronization between computers, servers, external drives. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 63 | G Git-Sync Backup and sync tool for git repositories | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 64 | G GitSave Easily back up git repositories on a schedule | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 65 | G Gokapi Lightweight server to share files, which expire after a set amount of downloads or days. Similar to the discontinued Firefox Send, with the difference that only the | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 66 | G goploader Easy file sharing with server-side encryption, curl/httpie/wget compliant. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 67 | G GoSƐ Modern file-uploader focusing on scalability and simplicity. It only depends on a S3 storage backend and hence scales horizontally without the need for additional | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 68 | H Harbor Cloud native image registry that stores, signs, and scans content. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 69 | H Hoodik End-to-end encrypted cloud storage server. Files are encrypted and decrypted in the browser, so the server only ever holds ciphertext. Runs on SQLite or PostgreSQL | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 70 | I IFM Single script file manager. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 71 | J Jackett API support for torrent trackers | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 72 | J Jirafeau One-click-fileshare project. Select your file, upload, and share a link. That's it. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 73 | K Karakeep Bookmark-everything app with a touch of AI for the data hoarders out there. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 74 | K Kinto Minimalist JSON storage service with synchronisation and sharing abilities. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 75 | L lesma Simple paste app friendly with browser and command line. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 76 | L Local Content Share Store and share text snippets and files within your local network. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 77 | L LocalSend Cross-platform local network file sharing | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 78 | M mail-archiver Web application for archiving, searching, and exporting emails from multiple accounts (IMAP, M365 or Import). Featuring folder sync, attachment support, mailbox | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 79 | M MicroBin File sharing and URL shortening web app | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 80 | M miniserve CLI tool to serve files and dirs over HTTP. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 81 | M mkbrr Powerful tool for creating and modifying torrent files | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 82 | N not-th.re Simple paste sharing platform, with client side encryption, featuring the monaco browser-based code editor. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 83 | N NZBGet Fast, reliable, and feature-packed NZB downloader | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 84 | O Obsidian LiveSync Community-implemented sync plugin for Obsidian | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 85 | O Omeka S Next-generation web publishing platform for institutions interested in connecting digital cultural heritage collections with other resources online. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 86 | O OnionShare Securely and anonymously share a file of any size. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 87 | O Open Archiver Email archiving solution with full-text search and eDiscovery search features. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 88 | O OpenCloud Secure and private app for storing, accessing, and sharing files | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 89 | O Opengist Self-hosted pastebin powered by Git | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 90 | O OpenList File manager with support for multiple storage backends | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 91 | O OpenSSH SFTP server Secure File Transfer Program. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 92 | O ownCloud All-in-one solution for saving, synchronizing, viewing, editing and sharing files, calendars, address books and more. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 93 | O ownCloud Infinite Scale File sync and share platform | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 94 | P paaster End-to-end encrypted pastebin built with the objective of simplicity. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 95 | P pacebin Super-minimal pastebin and file upload service focusing on small executable size, portability, and ease of configuration. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 96 | P PairDrop Local file sharing in your browser inspired by Apple's AirDrop | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 97 | P Papermark Document sharing with built-in analytics | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 98 | P Papra Minimalist document storage, management and archiving platform designed to be simple to use and accessible to everyone. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 99 | P Pastefy Beautiful, simple and easy to deploy Pastebin with optional client encryption, multitab pastes, an API, a highlighted editor and more. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 100 | P Peergos Secure and private space online where you can store, share and view your photos, videos, music and documents. Also includes a calendar, news feed, task lists, chat and | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 101 | P PG Back Web Effortless PostgreSQL backups with a user-friendly web interface | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 102 | P PicoShare Minimalist, easy-to-host service for sharing images and other files. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 103 | P PictShare Multi lingual image hosting service with a simple resizing and upload API. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 104 | P Piler Feature-rich email archiving solution. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 105 | P Pingvin Share X File sharing platform with support for logins, reverse shares, share expiry, S3 Buckets, advanced authentication, ClamAV for security scans and more (fork of Pingvin | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 106 | P Plik Scalable and friendly temporary file upload system. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 107 | P PlikShare Self-hosted file sharing solution | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 108 | P Pluton Secure backups across local and cloud storage | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 109 | P Portabase Database backup and restore tool | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 110 | P PrivateBin Minimalist pastebin/discussion board where the server has zero knowledge of hosted data. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 111 | P PrivyDrop Simple and user-friendly, breakpoint-resumable peer-to-peer text, image, and file transfer tool based on WebRTC. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 112 | P Project N.O.M.A.D. Offline-first knowledge base and tools | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 113 | P ProjectSend Upload files and assign them to specific clients you create. Give access to those files to your clients. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 114 | P PsiTransfer Simple file sharing solution with robust up-/download-resume and password protection. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 115 | P Puter Web-based operating system designed to be feature-rich, exceptionally fast, and highly extensible. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 116 | P Pydio Turn any web server into a powerful file management system and an alternative to mainstream cloud storage providers. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 117 | Q qBittorrent Free cross-platform bittorrent client with a feature rich Web UI for remote access. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 118 | Q QuickDrop Easy-to-use file sharing application | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 119 | Q QuickShare Quick and simple file sharing between different devices. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 120 | R Rclone File sync with various cloud storage providers | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 121 | R Readeck Save the precious readable content of web pages you like and want to keep forever. See it as a bookmark manager and a read later tool. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 122 | R Recyclarr Automatically sync TRaSH Guides to Sonarr and Radarr | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 123 | R Resilio Sync Proprietary peer-to-peer file synchronisation tool. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 124 | R ResourceSpace Simple, fast, and free way to organise your digital assets. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 125 | R restic Fast, secure, efficient backup program | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 126 | R RustFS High-performance distributed object storage | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 127 | R rustypaste Minimal file upload and pastebin service | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 128 | S Safebucket File sharing platform with pluggable infrastructure, where uploads and downloads go directly between clients and S3-compatible storage. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 129 | S Samba Samba is the standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Linux and Unix. It provides secure, stable and fast file and print services for all clients using | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 130 | S sE2EEnd End-to-end encrypted file sharing with password protection, download limits, and auto-expiration, integrated with Keycloak for authentication. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 131 | S SeaweedFS SeaweedFS is an open source distributed file system supporting WebDAV, S3 API, FUSE mount, HDFS, etc, optimized for lots of small files, and easy to add capacity. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 132 | S Send Simple, private file sharing | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 133 | S sftpgo Community Edition Flexible, fully featured and highly configurable SFTP server with optional FTP/S and WebDAV support. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 134 | S Sharry Share files easily over the internet between authenticated and anonymous users (both ways) with resumable up- and downloads. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 135 | S Shelfmark Interface for searching and requesting book downloads | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 136 | S Shifter A simple, self-hosted file-sharing web app, powered by Django. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 137 | S SilverBullet Note-taking application optimized for people with a hacker mindset. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 138 | S SkySend Encrypted file and note sharing | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 139 | S slcl Simple and lightweight web cloud storage. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 140 | S Slink Image sharing platform designed to give users complete control over their media sharing experience. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 141 | S Snipo Lightweight, self‑hosted snippet manager for saving and organizing code and text snippets with folders, tags, API, and GitHub Gist sync. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 142 | S snowshare File and link sharing platform with URL shortening, code snippet sharing, and file uploads, featuring customizable expiration, privacy settings, and QR codes. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 143 | S SnyPy Open source on-prem code snippet manager. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 144 | S SuperBin File sharing, URL shortening, and pastebin all-in-one | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 145 | S Surfer Simple static file server with webui to manage files. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 146 | S Sync-in File storage, syncing, sharing, and collaboration with real-time editing, permission management, and desktop/CLI clients. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 147 | T TagSpaces TagSpaces is an offline, cross-platform file manager and organiser that also can function as a note taking app. The WebDAV version of the application can be installed on | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 148 | T Tiny File Manager Web based File Manager in PHP, simple, fast and small file manager with a single file. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 149 | T transfer.sh Easy file sharing from the command line. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 150 | T Transfer.zip Complete file sharing solution | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 151 | T Transmission Fast, easy, free Bittorrent client. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 152 | U Uguu Stores files and deletes after X amount of time. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 153 | U Unison Unison is a file-synchronization tool for OSX, Unix, and Windows. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 154 | U Unraid Guardian Disaster recovery generator for Unraid | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 155 | V Velld Database backup management and automation | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 156 | V VersityGW File system and S3 object interface bridge | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 157 | V VueTorrent Sleek web UI for qBittorrent made with Vue.js | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 158 | V Vykar Fast, encrypted, deduplicated backups | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 159 | W Wastebin Lightweight, minimal and fast pastebin with an SQLite backend. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 160 | W Wayback A self-hosted toolkit for archiving webpages to the Internet Archive, archive.today, IPFS, and local file systems. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 161 | W Webtor Web-based torrent client with instant audio/video streaming. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 162 | X XBackBone Simple, fast and lightweight file manager with instant sharing tools integration, like ShareX. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 163 | Y Yetishare Powerful file hosting script with support for Amazon S3, Wasabi, Backblaze, local, direct and SFTP storage. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 164 | Y Yopass Secure sharing of secrets, passwords and files. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 165 | Z Zenko CloudServer Implementation of the Amazon S3 protocol on the front-end and backend storage capabilities to multiple clouds, including Azure and Google. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 166 | Z Zerobyte Backup automation with remote storage support | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 167 | Z Zipline A lightweight, fast and reliable file sharing server that is commonly used with ShareX, offering a react-based Web UI and fast API. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
| 168 | Z ZOT OCI Registry A production-ready vendor-neutral OCI-native container image registry. | Storage | 0 | €0.018/hr |
Best Storage apps, reviewed
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Nextcloud
Storage · 124 000 installs
The core loop is what Nextcloud does best. It runs comfortably on 4 vCPU / 8 GB here. Most people start here.
- Does: the core storage job.
- Runs on: 4 vCPU · 8 GB RAM · 100 GB — about €0.092/hr on Pay as you go.
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Syncthing
Storage · 88 000 installs
Built around its core job, Syncthing stays out of your way. Plan for 1 vCPU and 1 GB of RAM. Worth comparing with the leader.
- Does: the core storage job.
- Runs on: 1 vCPU · 1 GB RAM · 25 GB — about €0.018/hr on Pay as you go.
I
Immich
Storage · 75 000 installs
Teams pick Immich when they need the basics done well. Spec: 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 100 GB disk. A solid niche pick.
- Does: the core storage job.
- Runs on: 2 vCPU · 4 GB RAM · 100 GB — about €0.046/hr on Pay as you go.
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MinIO
Storage · 47 000 installs
MinIO covers the essentials without demanding a manual. It runs comfortably on 2 vCPU / 4 GB here. A solid niche pick.
- Does: the core storage job.
- Runs on: 2 vCPU · 4 GB RAM · 100 GB — about €0.046/hr on Pay as you go.
How we ranked these apps
The order comes from our provisioning log. It counts real installs, refreshed weekly.
What it costs to run
The software is free. You only pay for the server. At full spec this field costs about €0.092 an hour — less when the server is paused. The install wizard pre-sizes the server for you.
Which Storage app should you pick?
- You want the safe bet? Nextcloud — the most installed pick here.
- You prefer the lighter option? Syncthing — a close second, some teams like it more.
- Tight budget? Syncthing runs on 1 vCPU / 1 GB — the cheapest server here.
- Not sure yet? Install the leader, try it for an hour, pause the server. You pay cents.
Free software, not free servers
No per-seat pricing, no trial clock. Hosting is the cost.
Heavy apps may need a bigger plan later — upgrades take a minute.
Verdict
Nextcloud is the one to start with, with Syncthing as the alternative. Your first hour on it costs less than a coffee.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best storage app?
Nextcloud leads this category on PickYour.App. Teams pick Nextcloud when they need the basics done well. It runs comfortably on 4 vCPU / 8 GB here.
Can I use these tools for free?
Yes. Every app here is open-source. You only pay for the server — from €0.018 per hour, and pausing stops the meter.
How much does a storage server cost?
About €0.092/hour for the biggest spec in this list. Smaller apps run on less.
Which one is easiest to start?
Syncthing — it needs the smallest server (1 vCPU / 1 GB). The install wizard sets it up in one click.
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