Work · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to SandCrab

Hello HN. SandCrab is an app I originally had the idea for and hacked together over a couple of weekends last October. More recently, I’ve been working on adding new features to it as I use it more as my daily tool to interact with my s3 buckets. A few recent features I am excited about include the ability to search across all of your buckets using wildcards and regular expressions as well as searching and filtering by metadata (e.g. content type, file size, date created, etc). I’ve also added support for configuring and generating presigned urls directly in the app which is nice. The app…

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. SandCrab launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   S3nding▲98

   The fastest way to upload and share files from S3.

   Feb 2026 · s3nding.nicoandrade.com · its alternatives →

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   I made an iPhone app that helps you manage your S3 files▲24

   2013 · cloudcatapp.com · its alternatives →

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   I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust▲597

   A year ago, my co-founder launched Desktop Docs here on HN. It's a Mac app we built with Electron that uses CLIP embeddings to search photos and videos locally with natural language. We got positive feedback from HN and our first paying customers, but the app was almost 1GB and clunky to use. TLDR; rebuilding in Rust was the right move. So we rewrote the app with Rust and Tauri and here are the results: - App size is 83% smaller: 1GB → 172MB - DMG Installer is 70% smaller: 232MB → 69.5MB - Indexing files is faster: A 38-minute video now indexes in ~3 minutes instead of 10-14 minutes -…

   2025 · desktopdocs.com · its alternatives →

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   S3kit – AWS S3 command-line tool for tags/versions/lock management etc.▲23

   AWS S3 CLI tooklit. Contribute to jdevelop/s3kit development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Freeze – Amazon Glacier GUI Client for Mac OS X▲160

   Native app for macOS ✔ transfer files from and to Amazon Glacier

   2015 · freezeapp.net · its alternatives →

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   crawl a website and store it in S3 from your browser▲43

   Crawl websites from your browser and save them in S3 - spullara/browsercrawler

   2011 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, Rackspace, Backblaze via a Single API▲191

   2016 · cloudrail.com · its alternatives →

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   Pare down your S3 Bill; with `du` for AWS S3▲22

   Like `du` but for S3. Contribute to owocki/s3_disk_util development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   A simple GUI for uploading large files to S3▲42

   An S3 File Uploader GUI written in Python. Contribute to charlesdaniel/s3_uploader development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Compute Manager▲106

    Native macOS app for your AWS console

    2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    FreeUpMyMac▲110

    Hey HN Ex YC/Google engineer turned indie maker here - excited to share something I just shipped. The System Data in my Mac was taking up 300GB and it took me months to figure out how to clear the old cache, logs, junk and more. And CleanMyMac is a subscription - I refuse to pay subscription fees for Mac apps that run locally. So I built FreeUpMyMac an offline, lifetime Mac cleaner that clear junk with 1 click. And helps you visualize your storage with TreeMap/Sunburst. Hope it’s helpful to you as it is for me. Would love your feedback Tunde

    Jan 2026 · freeupmymac.com · its alternatives →

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    CallFS – S3-style object store in one Go binary (MIT)▲66

    We started CallFS after yet another late-night “why did the uploads vanish?” incident. Our small team had stitched together rsync, a fragile NFS mount, and an S3 bucket—none of it observable, all of it waiting to bite us. So we wrote a single-process file service in Go that: • Speaks the S3 API (so existing tooling works). • Stores hot data on local disks for speed; cold data can sit in any S3-compatible bucket. • Exposes Prometheus metrics and JSON logs by default, because “what happened?” shouldn’t be guesswork. • Ships as a ~25 MB static binary—no external deps, MIT license. Today it’s…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    WarpBuildfree tier, from $0.003/mo▲195

    10x cheaper Github actions in your AWS account

    2024 · warpbuild.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Blober.io▲104

    Safely transfer files between AWS S3, Google Drive, Azure Blob, GoPro Cloud, Backblaze B2, Dropbox and more. Lifetime license, no subscription fees. Desktop app for Mac, Windows & Linux.

    Jan 2026 · blober.io · its alternatives →

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    Simple and Secure Personal Backups▲20

    spb is a CLI backing up your local folders into S3 while encrypting everything client side.

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    s3-lambda – Lambda functions over S3 objects: each, map, reduce, filter▲177

    Lambda functions over S3 objects with concurrency control (each, map, reduce, filter) - littlstar/s3-lambda

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    discharge▲125

    A simple way to deploy static websites to Amazon S3 💻

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    S3HyperSync – Faster S3 sync tool – iterating with up to 100k files/s▲49

    An alternative S3 sync tool to extremly fast sync s3 buckets. Feedback and contributions are welcome!

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    SearchS3▲7

    Amazon s3 search client for windows. s3 bucket explorer gui.

    2024 · its alternatives →

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

    Push and pull git repos to/from an s3 bucket, encrypted using gpg. - bgahagan/git-remote-s3

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    BucketBot.io▲78

    Upload pics and files to Amazon S3 directly from Slack

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    Amazon S3 API Support for Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Service▲74

    2017 · blog.minio.io · its alternatives →

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    Mercek – A Desktop IDE for AWS ECS▲64

    Hey HN I've been using ECS for a while now and found it annoying having to log into the console everytime I use Lens for Kubernetes but couldnt find an equivalent for ECS so i built one! The project is open source as well https://github.com/utibeabasi6/mercek

    Jun 2026 · mercek.dev · its alternatives →

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    I built open source file sharing solution using AWS S3▲63

    I created a 100% Open source Company-wide Self-hosted File Sharing Solution for Teams Recently, I wanted to share HD images and video files with my graphic designer. She’s exceptional at her craft but isn’t familiar with AWS S3 So, I got an idea and built this. Github Repo: https://github.com/rohitg00/s3-file-share-for-free Detailed Guide: https://ghumare64.medium.com/i-built-a-company-wide-self-hos...

    2024 · s3-file-share-for-free-35n2u.kinsta.app · its alternatives →

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