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24 alternatives to S P A C E – End-to-end encrypted, blockchain-backed, digital storage

How do you protect your digital assets? Do you store your personal notes, dog pictures, cat videos, music playlists, health records, bank statements, and government documents in the cloud, on your phone, a usb, hard-disk, solid-state, or network drive? Is your data available to you, when and where you need it? Can your data be viewed by anyone else? Is your data stored in multiple locations or are all your eggs in one basket? Can your data be changed or deleted without your knowledge? S P A C E[1] is an open source project[2] combining End-to-End Encryption with Proof-of-Work Blockchains to…

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. S P A C E – End-to-end encrypted, blockchain-backed, digital storage launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

  1. 1

    Secure & private cloud storage & file sharing

    2023 · transferchain.io · its alternatives →

  2. 2WB

    Hello HN, Over the last year we've been building ente[1], a privacy-friendly, easy-to-use alternative to Google Photos. We've so far built Android[2][3], iOS[4], web[5] apps that encrypt your files and back them up in the background. You can access these across your devices, and share them with other ente users, end-to-end encrypted. You can also use our electron app[6] to maintain a local copy of your backed up files. We've built a fault-tolerant data replication layer that replicates your data to two different storage providers in the EU. We will be providing additional replicas as an…

    2021 · its alternatives →

  3. 3

    Blockchain-based secure & private file sharing for everyone

    2023 · send.transferchain.io · its alternatives →

  4. 4

    End-to-end encrypted photo storage 📸

    2018 · encryptmyphotos.com · its alternatives →

  5. 5

    Free secure cloud storage | proton

    2025 · proton.me · its alternatives →

  6. 6

    A secure Bitcoin and Ethereum hardware wallet

    2016 · shop.ledger.com · its alternatives →

  7. 7

    Unified file manager for all your cloud storage with E2EE

    Feb 2026 · drivebase.io · its alternatives →

  8. 8
    3Box▲100

    Secure, private, decentralized user data storage

    2019 · 3box.io · its alternatives →

  9. 9
    SNote▲112

    End-to-end encrypted notes, docs, data & files

    2023 · its alternatives →

  10. 10ET
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    Private encrypted file storage, powered by crypto.

    2019 · opacity.io · its alternatives →

  12. 12
    xordrive▲106

    Encrypted & decentralized cloud storage.

    2019 · xordrive.io · its alternatives →

  13. 13
    Cryptee▲155

    An encrypted home for your private photos, docs & notes.

    2018 · crypt.ee · its alternatives →

  14. 14
    Storj▲81

    Decentralized file storage using a blockchain (pre-launch)

    2014 · storj.io · its alternatives →

  15. 15

    Free anonymous decentralized cloud storage for everyone

    2021 · its alternatives →

  16. 16

    Archives your files, versioned and audit-proof by Blockchain

    2023 · versiobit.com · its alternatives →

  17. 17

    Store your files in a secure encrypted container

    2022 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

  18. 18
    Sia▲159

    Decentralized storage on the blockchain

    2017 · siacoin.com · its alternatives →

  19. 19

    Send encrypted file links instead of email attachments

    Oct 2025 · couchdrop.io · its alternatives →

  20. 20SV
  21. 21
    Filecoin▲121

    The decentralised storage network

    2014 · filecoin.io · its alternatives →

  22. 22

    An SSD that fits on your keychain

    2019 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →

  23. 23

    TLDR, Let's Seal gives the finger to Adobe and every doc signing tool (docusign, google, etc) who pay to play with the Adobe Approved Trust List and then charge you for something that should be free. Currently even the person checking if a document/contract is sealed or code is authentic has to also be inside the same Adobe walled garden too. Verification, the part that should be free is the part everyone charges for. Thats the shape Let's Encrypt fixed for TLS, and I wanted the same thing for documents and files. The core idea therefore needed to go a bit beyond e signatures and i…

    Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

  24. 24

    Encrypted filesharing through the IPFS network

    2021 · sedo.com · its alternatives →

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