Koofr - European Based Cloud Storage Provider with a Generous Free Tier
I am in the process of de-Googling. I already moved my email to Fastmail. I
changed my default search engine to Kagi.
I am moving my photographs to Ente.
Today, I took advantage of an ongoing
sale at Stack Social to purchase a lifetime deal on 1 TB of cloud
storage with the Slovenian company, Koofr For $120. I've been paying a monthly
fee for cloud storage for more than 10 years and I'm delighted that is
coming to an end. My de-Googling project is based more on my desire to
preserve my privacy and protect myself from the US government, but I'm
happy to save a few bucks while doing it. For anyone who wants to try
out Koofr, they offer a 10GB account for free. If you just want an
offshore place to store documents, that is a healthy amount of storage,
but not enough if you are looking to have a safe place for photos, music
and larger backups. You can also subscribe to Koofr monthly with plans
starting at a trifling €.5 a month, going up in increments for an
additional 10, 25, 100, and 250 GBs before getting to TB and greater
options.
The Mac client for Koofr allows you to set up access to your storage as if it were a network drive. Koofr also sets up a folder in your home directory that is synced with its cloud servers. I like this much better than the default location in the ~/Library/Cloud Storage folder used by Google Drive, Dropbox and Box.com. You can add additional folders to sync with the cloud, something I typically do with my default downloads folder so that I can easily share those files between devices. If you have Dropbox, Google Drive or One Drive accounts, you can mount those providers inside of your Koofr vault, something I'm taking advantage of while I work on moving the files I want to secure over to European based storage, protected by European privacy laws which are much stricter than in the US. Koofr's search function will search the files on each of those services as well as itself. The Koofr app also allows me to set up local file sharing between computers on my home network where the data never goes to a could service, it's just a convenient feature to share data between devices.
I was also able to set up Koofr easily in my iOS file manager, FileBrowserPro, using WebDAV.
There is a Koofr client for iOS, Windows and Linux if you use those platforms.
Even free accounts can use use Koofr Vault for extra strong protection. Open source, client-side, zero-knowledge encrypted storage application by Koofr.
There are even more features than I have covered for collaboration, file recovery, data migration from Meta platforms, an image editor, duplicate file detection, drive space management and more.