ExpanDrive vs NetDrive

ExpanDrive is completely free for personal use. NetDrive starts at $21.90/year and has no free tier.

Mount every major cloud as a native drive.

ExpanDrive is a desktop app that maps Amazon S3, Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, SharePoint, Box, Backblaze B2, Wasabi, Nextcloud, SFTP, and WebDAV to a drive letter on macOS, Windows, and Linux. Stream files on demand, edit them in any application, and save back to the cloud. Free for personal use; $29/month for teams up to 10.

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Pick NetDrive if…

You need file locking on shared Office docs

NetDrive ships multi-user lock semantics. ExpanDrive doesn't expose file locking in the desktop tool: that capability lives in Files.com.

You need iOS or Android companion apps

NetDrive ships mobile clients. ExpanDrive is desktop only.

Pick ExpanDrive if…

You want the platform behind your desktop tool to be a serious one

ExpanDrive is built on Files.com: the #1-scoring MFT vendor on G2, 4,000+ customers, marquee references including Equifax, Rag & Bone, Cognizant, and Michelin.

You don't want to pay yearly for a desktop tool

ExpanDrive is free for personal use, with every major cloud service. NetDrive starts at $21.90/year and has no free tier.

You have a Linux box on your team

ExpanDrive runs natively on macOS, Windows, and Linux. NetDrive stops at two.

What none of these other tools can offer.

The drive letter is the part you see. The platform behind it, and the server-side companion, are the parts that decide whether the tool holds up at work.

The #1-rated MFT platform on G2, behind every connector.

ExpanDrive’s connectors are the same ones running across Files.com — the platform rated #1 in every attribute for Managed File Transfer on G2, with 4,000+ enterprise customers including Equifax, Rag & Bone, Cognizant, and Michelin. Fifteen-plus years of building cloud connectors, SOC 2 and HIPAA posture, SSO and audit logging when you grow into it.

  • #1 scoring application for MFT on G2
  • 4,000+ enterprise customers
  • Equifax, Rag & Bone, Cognizant, Michelin, and thousands more
  • SOC 2 audited, HIPAA-ready, GDPR posture
  • Backed by Files.com's Five Star Support — direct to a trained engineer, no triage queue

Mount every cloud on the server too.

ExpanDrive Server Edition runs as a system service on Windows Server and Linux, making every cloud available as a network filesystem to every user and every process on the machine. Re-share cloud storage as an SMB mount on your network. Multi-user file locking for Office documents. Headless installs, parallel transfers, and a multi-threaded engine built for the server.

  • Mounts as a network filesystem on Windows Server and Linux
  • Runs headless as a system service
  • Re-shares cloud storage via SMB
  • Multi-user file locking on shared Office docs
  • Included in Business at $29/month
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Questions about ExpanDrive vs NetDrive.

The questions buyers actually ask when they're choosing between us. Answered straight.

Really free. ExpanDrive is $0 for personal use, every major cloud service supported, no time limit. NetDrive runs a 7-day trial on monthly plans and a 14-day money-back on yearly and lifetime — nothing free past that. The cheapest paid path on NetDrive is $21.90/year or $49.95 lifetime; ExpanDrive personal is $0 indefinitely.

The platform behind the drive letter.

The cloud connectors mounting your drive on macOS, Windows, and Linux are the same ones that run on Files.com's high-performance cloud File Orchestration Platform — used by 4,000+ businesses including Equifax, Rag & Bone, Cognizant, and Michelin. None of the tools you might compare ExpanDrive against have anything like our team behind them.

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