Google Drive is one of the most popular, fremium cloud storage service from Google. Gdrive is an official client for Google drive and a must have application for Windows. But sadly the most popular service can’t be used on Linux via any official client like Gdrive. So I thought to find free alternatives to Google Drive on Linux and I came up with the list of 5 free cloud storage services that provide client for Linux. I know you’ll love it.

Cloud storage is the necessity of our digital life. It allows our different devices to talk to one another. Google drive provides free space but as you would have noticed that it does not provide any official client app for Linux. All you have to do to use Google Drive on Linux is an open web browser and go to Google drives web app which is time-consuming. Of course, there are some unofficial Google Drive clients are available but they are either premium or not very productive.

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So to solve the problem, I came up with the list of 5 cloud storage services that let you sync your files right from your Linux desktop through their official client app for Linux.

1. MEGA

The first one in our list is MEGA cloud storage. One of the best cloud storage services, MEGA provides 50GB of cloud storage for FREE! Yes! You heard that right! It’s 50GB free space.

MEGA Linux Client

The best in MEGA for Linux users is that it provides Linux client for syncing files right from your desktop. The client always runs in the background and keep your files up-to-date.

Services Availability Free Storage 50GB Upgrade Up to 4TB Linux Client Yes Mobile Client Yes ( Android, Apple, Windows Phone, Blackberry

2. SpiderOAK

Zero Knowledge here & If you want privacy, then SpiderOAK is the best one for you. SpiderOAK is known for its Zero Knowledge based system for storing users’ data. You can learn more about what here . Here is the quote from Edward Snowden speehch in which he mentioned SpiderOAK.

Dropbox is hostile to privacy, unlike ‘zero knowledge’ SpiderOak. – Edward Snowden

Services Availability Free Storage 2GB for 60days trial Upgrade SpiderOAKONE up to 5TB Linux Client Yes Mobile Client Yes ( Android, iPhone

3. Dropbox

The World famous Dropbox has always been the alternative to Google Drive and Microsoft’s OneDrive. Dropbox provides 2GB of free space and allows to extend up to 1TB for personal use.

Services Availability Free Storage 2GB Upgrade up to 1TB for personal use Linux Client Yes Mobile Client Yes

4. Yandex Disk

Yandex Disk is cloud storage from the Yandex search engine. Signing up with Yandex provides you many free services such as Mail, Maps, Images and more. Yandex Disk provides 10GB of free space.

Services Availability Free Storage 10GB Upgrade up to 1TB Linux Client Yes (CLI) Mobile Client Yes (Android, iPhone, Windows Phone) Yandex Linux client is only CLI(Command Line Interface). So you will have to learn some very simple commands to link and sync your Yandex account from a client.

yandex-disk token username Enter Yandex PasswordSync folder yandex-disk start -dir directory path

5. Bitcasa

Bitcasa is last but not least. It provides 5GB cloud storage for free and allows to upgrade to massive 10TB through premium plans. Bitcasa has Linux client but currently, it’s only for Ubuntu 14.04.

Services Availability Free Storage 5GB Upgrade up to 10TB Linux Client Yes (only for 14.04) Mobile Client Yes (Android, iPhone)

What Is Your Alternative To Google Drive On Linux?

I am very excited to know what’s your favorite alternative to Google Drive on Linux. Please let us know by taking the poll below or tell us if you use any other Cloud storage on Linux. I know there are tons of cloud storage services so let us know which one you use on Linux.