Alternatives

Products that do what Cloudzip – mount remote zip files (S3, Kaggle) as a local directory does

Cloudzip (https://github.com/ozkatz/cloudzip) allows mounting remote zip archives as a local directory, without having to download and extract them first.

1. 1
   CloudMounter▲261

   Mount cloud storage as local drive on Mac

   2016

2. 2
   CloudMounter for Mac 4.0▲144

   Cloud drives mounted locally on your macOS desktop

   2023

3. 3
   Zipit▲100

   Unzip files in S3 faster

   2021

4. 4ZE
   ZipSee – explore remote ZIP archives using HTTP range requests▲5

   A small tool that uses HTTP range requests to explore ZIP archives remotely — list contents and download specific files without fetching the entire archive. Try out this URL (https://docs.python.org/3/archives/python-3.14-docs-text.zip) as an example.

   Apr 2026 · zipsee.pages.dev

5. 5GM
   Gitfs – mount Git repos as local folders▲196

   2014 · presslabs.com

6. 6AI
   AzureFS – I mounted Azure Cloud Storage as filesystem on Linux▲66

   2012 · alpblog.heroku.com

7. 7ZL
   Zero – Local file system transparently swapping to the cloud▲252

   2018 · github.com

8. 8
   Mountain Duck▲136

   Mount server & cloud storage in the File Explorer or Finder

   2016

9. 9AG
   A Github Action for deploying files to the any cloud storage▲32

   2020 · github.com

10. 10
    Next3 Offload▲145

    Reduce image loading time by offloading media to the cloud.

    Nov 2025

11. 11
    Decentrafile▲144

    Free anonymous decentralized cloud storage for everyone

    2021

12. 12
    Clouds▲144

    Simple & handy temporary file uploads

    2024

13. 13CD
    Compressed directories on Linux▲70

    2017 · excamera.com

14. 14UF
    Unzip from 500MB remote archive in 400ms or less▲10

    2017 · npmjs.com

15. 15
    Drivebase▲98

    Unified file manager for all your cloud storage with E2EE

    Feb 2026

16. 16
    File Ark▲76

    Archive files to cloud storage, save space on your computer

    2019

17. 17CS
    Cloud Storage with ZFS send and receive over SSH▲59

    2015 · rsync.net

18. 18UF
    Unzip files in S3 with Java, without memory or disk storage▲5

    S3 stream unzip: Java library to manage unzipping of large files and data in AWS S3 without knowing the size beforehand and without keeping it all in memory or writing to disk.

    2022 · github.com

19. 19GR
    Git-remote-s3 – push and pull Git repos to/from s3, encrypted using GPG▲79

    2019 · github.com

20. 20
    Mover▲81

    Easily move files between cloud services

    2014

21. 21CL
    Cz: list and get specific files from remote zip archives▲5

    2024 · github.com

22. 22XD
    Xstatic docs – like Google Docs inside an S3 bucket▲56

    2017 · public.docs.xstatic.site

23. 23SO
    Sshfs-open – A helper script to mount remote directories using sshfs▲6

    2016 · github.com

24. 24EM
    Easily move between cloud storage (S3, Backblaze, OneDrive, etc.)▲30

    2020 · movebot.io

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