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24 alternatives to GCSF

Google Drive as a file system

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. GCSF launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Google Drive as a file system▲374
a FUSE file system based on Google Drive. Contribute to harababurel/gcsf development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
2AI
AzureFS – I mounted Azure Cloud Storage as filesystem on Linux▲66
2012 · alpblog.heroku.com · its alternatives →
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FUSE filesystem for Google Drive written in OCaml▲86
FUSE filesystem over Google Drive. Contribute to astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse development by creating an account on GitHub.
2013 · github.com · its alternatives →
4
Gitfs – mount Git repos as local folders▲196
gitfs went on a trip around the world, and we were there to document it: fro Italy to Sweden, from the UK to Spain, gitfs has been center stage.
2014 · presslabs.com · its alternatives →
5
Drive – a tiny program to pull or push Google Drive files▲69
Google Drive client for the commandline. Contribute to odeke-em/drive development by creating an account on GitHub.
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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databox▲84
Integrate your Google Drive files into one place
2020 · its alternatives →
7PA
Pfs – A Git-like distributed file system for the Docker ecosystem▲74
2014 · pachyderm-io.github.io · its alternatives →
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Zfs.rent▲403
Colocate your own 3.5" SAS/SATA hard drives in a Tier 2 datacenter!Eliminate data transfer costs by shipping drives directly!
2020 · zfs.rent · its alternatives →
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ZeroFS – A log-structured filesystem for S3▲128
ZeroFS serves S3-compatible buckets as POSIX filesystems over NFS and 9P, or as raw block devices over NBD. Data is compressed and encrypted before upload.
Jul 2026 · zerofs.net · its alternatives →
10GA
Graphite – A decentralized and encrypted Google Docs alternative▲330
A secure, private productivity suite.
2018 · graphitedocs.com · its alternatives →
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Gfile, a WebRTC based file transfer utility in Go▲77
Direct file transfer over WebRTC. Contribute to Antonito/gfile development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
12
LinShare▲91
Private and secure file sharing and cloud storage solution
2022 · linshare.app · its alternatives →
13GA
gocryptfs, an aspiring successor to EncFS, now in v1.0▲20
Author of gocryptfs and co-maintainer of EncFS here. gocryptfs is a FUSE overlay filesystem for Linux like EncFS. But it is written from scratch in Go, uses modern crypto and fixes the security issues of EncFS while providing equivalent speed. Some of the key differences to EncFS are: * Just one security level roughly equivalent to EncFS "paranoia" mode, at the speed of "default" mode. * A design so simple it fits on one page ( this one: https://nuetzlich.net/gocryptfs/security/ ) * Explicit filesystem creation using "gocryptfs -init". No configuration prompts. *…
2016 · its alternatives →
14
Slate▲202
A file storage network for IPFS & Filecoin
2020 · its alternatives →
15
Virtual File System in PHP▲112
Virtual File System. Contribute to adlawson/php-vfs development by creating an account on GitHub.
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Drivebase▲98
Unified file manager for all your cloud storage with E2EE
Feb 2026 · drivebase.io · its alternatives →
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Cirrus IPFS(Beta)▲89
Securely decentralize your storage
2023 · its alternatives →
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Drive Explorer▲107
Export your Google Drive files 🗂️to Google Sheet 📗
2020 · workspace.google.com · its alternatives →
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rencfs▲3
An encrypted file system that is mounted with FUSE on Linux.
2024 · radumarias.github.io · its alternatives →
20
Insync 1.4▲139
Transform Google Drive into a desktop app (Win/Linux/macOS)
2018 · insynchq.com · its alternatives →
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MergerFS – A Featureful Union Filesystem▲44
a featureful union filesystem. Contribute to trapexit/mergerfs development by creating an account on GitHub.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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GYST – Digital organizer that replicates the feeling of a physical desk▲37
Hi HN! I’ve been working on a tool that merges file explorer, whiteboard, bookmarking, note-taking & simple graphic design into one lightweight interface. The idea is to make all these tools feel like one fluid space instead of 5 separate tools. The hope is to replicate the feeling of a physical desk : where order and freedom coexist. This 15-min video walks through the current alpha and the vision for the full product : https://youtu.be/AcWzuBBuiPM I’d love your feedback — especially around the concept and UX. The alpha is online if you want to try it:…
2025 · gyst.fr · its alternatives →
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cunoFS – mount S3/AZ/GCP storage *without* FUSE, 60x faster than s3fs▲19
Hello HN! We’re Dan and Vaughan, based in Cambridge, UK. We recently launched cunoFS, a filesystem for fast, POSIX object storage access. Yes, we’ve heard that “Object Storage is just not suitable for POSIX workloads” or that “workloads should be rewritten to natively support S3”. But what if it could be? And often much faster than S3-native apps? We’ve worked hard to make this possible, without the shortcomings of other approaches. Summary here: - Run (unmodified) applications with S3/AZ/GCP or “S3 compatible” storage, for example: ls s3:// az://…
2024 · cuno.io · its alternatives →
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Bashfs – Run commands as your filesystem▲97
What if you could use bash from a filesystem? Contribute to pcgrosen/bashfs development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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