Work · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to mountOS

Accessing cloud storage as local storage

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. mountOS launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   CloudMounter▲261

   Mount cloud storage as local drive on Mac

   2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   CloudMounter for Mac 4.0▲144

   Cloud drives mounted locally on your macOS desktop

   2023 · cloudmounter.net · its alternatives →

3. 3
   TinyStorage▲178

   A Modern GUI For S3

   2025 · tinybrief.app · its alternatives →

4. 4
   CloudMounter for Mac 3.8▲131

   Ultimate cloud storage manager with native M1 support

   2021 · cloudmounter.net · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Sunshine▲140

   Instant file sharing without cloud storage

   2015 · sunshineapp.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Mountain Duck▲136

   Mount server & cloud storage in the File Explorer or Finder

   2016 · mountainduck.io · its alternatives →

7. 7AI
   AzureFS – I mounted Azure Cloud Storage as filesystem on Linux▲66

   2012 · alpblog.heroku.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Sync▲90

   Sync offers secure and completely private cloud storage

   2015 · sync.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   ExpanDrive▲70

   Network drive for cloud storage. Access files on-demand.

   2019 · expandrive.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    ROOK▲9

    Open, Cloud Native, and Universal Distributed Storage

    2016 · rook.io · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Bitcasa▲75

    Free up disk space with system-integrated cloud storage

    2014 · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Tutum▲86

    Docker containers as a cloud service

    2014 · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Datomic▲73

    Distributed immutable transactional database for the cloud

    2014 · datomic.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Exoscale▲64

    VMs and object storage for cloud native applications.

    2016 · exoscale.com · its alternatives →

15. 15
    CloudMounter 2.0▲9

    Encrypt the online files and free disk space of a Mac

    2017 · mac.eltima.com · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Cloud Mounter▲9

    Cloud drive mounting tool (Google Drive, Amazon, DropBox...)

    2016 · mac.eltima.com · its alternatives →

17. 17
    UserApp▲64

    User Management in the Cloud

    2014 · its alternatives →

18. 18
    PPIO Decentralized Storage Network▲6

    A peer-to-peer based decentralized storage network

    2018 · its alternatives →

19. 19CS
    Cloud storage abstraction package for Go▲9

    2016 · medium.com · its alternatives →

20. 20KO
    Kloudless – One cloud storage API in the place of many▲7

    2014 · kloudless.com · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Koofr▲8

    Free cloud storage with options to connect other clouds.

    2017 · koofr.si · its alternatives →

22. 22
    ZPan▲4

    A self-host cloud disk base on the cloud storage

    2020 · zpan.space · its alternatives →

23. 23AS
    Archil's one-click infinite, S3-backed local disks now available▲19

    Hey everyone, I’m Hunter, the founder of Archil. Archil is transforming object storage, like Amazon S3, into infinite, local file systems that provide instant access to massive data sets. Last year, we launched Archil’s NFS-based product publicly on Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42174204), and we were absolutely thrilled to see the response of this community. Since our last launch, we took a 10 month company-wide bet to build our own, custom storage protocol to deliver true, local-like performance to cloud instances – by behaving closer to a block storage…

    2025 · its alternatives →

24. 24N1
    NodeOS 1.0-RC1▲17

    2015 · node-os.com · its alternatives →

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