Insync
Paid desktop app that syncs Google Drive, OneDrive and Dropbox folders on Linux.
Our verdict
Insync solves a specific and annoying problem. Google and Microsoft never wrote a Linux sync client, so your Drive or OneDrive files are stuck in a browser tab. Insync gives you the folder on your desktop that you had on Windows.
It is a one-off purchase per account rather than a subscription, and it covers Google Drive, OneDrive and Dropbox. Multiple accounts, selective sync and automatic conversion of Google Docs files are all there.
Two things to weigh up. It is paid software in a field where free options are normal, and it is closed source, so you are trusting a company you have not heard of with access to your cloud storage. If you can move your files to Nextcloud or Syncthing instead, that is the cheaper and more open route.
What's good
- The only well-supported way to get a proper Google Drive or OneDrive folder on Linux
- Handles several accounts from different services at once
- Converts Google Docs files to Office or OpenDocument formats as they sync
What to know first
- Costs money, unlike almost everything else in this category
- Closed source, and your cloud account credentials go through a third-party program
- Installed from packages on their own site rather than an app store, so updates are manual
The details
- Cost
- Paid
- Open source
- No (Proprietary)
- How you install it
- .deb installer, .rpm installer
Windows apps it can replace
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