Comparing Mountain Duck

Use Mountain Duck to access your file storage with smart synchronization to only keep selected files on your computer.


Compared with client apps

Mountain Duck OneDrive Dropbox Google Drive
Selectively keep files offline Yes Yes No 1 No 1
Online mode with no local disk usage Yes No 2 No No

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.


Compared with third-party apps

Mountain Duck Transmit Disk ExpanDrive CloudMounter
Version 3 4 7 3
No admin privileges required Yes Yes Partial 1 Partial 1
Available in Mac App Store Yes No No Yes
Client-side encryption Yes No No Partial 2
Mount as read-only filesystem Yes Yes Yes No
Copy URLs from Finder Extension Yes No Yes Yes
Smart Synchronization Yes 4 No No No
Make files available offline Yes 5 No Yes No
Mount volume when offline Yes 6 No No No
Upload changes in background Yes No Yes No
Badge icons in Finder Yes 7 No Yes No
FTP and FTP with TLS Yes Yes Yes Yes
SFTP Yes Yes Yes Yes
Authenticate with one-time passcode Yes No Yes No
WebDAV Yes Yes Yes Yes
Authenticate with client certificate Yes No No No
Amazon S3 Yes Partial 3 Yes Yes
Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration Yes No No No
Create pre-signed temporary URLs Yes 8 No No No
Microsoft Azure Blob Storage Yes No Yes No
Google Cloud Storage Yes No Yes No
OpenStack Swift Yes No Yes No
Google Drive Yes No Yes Yes
Open Google Docs documents Yes No Yes No
Open files in Team Drives Yes No Yes No
Dropbox Yes No Yes Yes
Microsoft OneDrive Yes No Yes Yes
Backblaze B2 Yes No Yes No

1 Requires admin privilege to install FUSE kernel extensions and libraries. 2 CloudMounter offers client-side encryption for some storage providers. 3 Regions with AWS4 signature version requirement are not supported. 4 Keep opened files on your computer for faster edits and sync changes in the background. 5 Select files and folders to keep always offline and upload changes when the server is reachable. 6 Browse folders when offline and work with files in the local cache. 7 Sync status for files and folders. 8 Using the Finder Extension context menu.

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