Self-hosted alternatives to Google Drive

ZPan

Web drive and image host for your own S3-compatible bucket, with share links, WebDAV and team spaces

What a Google Drive user would miss

Real-time document co-editing and a sync client.

What it adds

Files go to your own S3-compatible bucket such as R2, uploads skip the Worker, and screenshot tools like PicGo and ShareX can upload to it as an image host.

• Yes Store and organize files in folders from any browser. Web file manager with folders, move, rename and copy.
• Yes Upload files and folders. Browsers upload straight to the bucket through presigned URLs, with multipart for large files.
• Yes Preview documents, images, PDFs and video in the browser. Image, video, audio and document previews.
• Yes Share files or folders by link with access controls. Share links with password, expiry and download limit, plus direct links.
• Yes Search for files. Search listed beside folders, previews and trash.
• Yes Shared spaces for teams. Team spaces with their own members, roles, files and quotas.
• No Real-time co-editing of documents. README says it is not a co-editing suite.
• Partly Desktop and mobile apps that sync files. WebDAV mount in desktop clients; dedicated sync clients are marked planned.

Sources:github.com/saltbo/zpan#readmezpan.space/docs/user-guide/files-and-folders/workspace.google.com/products/drive/

CloudPaste

Markdown pastebin and multi-storage file manager on Cloudflare Workers, mountable as a WebDAV drive

What a Google Drive user would miss

Co-editing, a sync client and per-person accounts, since access is one admin plus scoped API keys.

What it adds

It mounts R2, B2, S3, OneDrive, Google Drive, WebDAV and other storages side by side in one explorer.

• Yes Store and organize files in folders from any browser. File explorer over mounted storages with browse, rename, move, copy and directory operations.
• Yes Upload files and folders. Drag and drop, batch and chunked resumable uploads.
• Yes Preview documents, images, PDFs and video in the browser. 30+ formats including images, video, audio, PDF and Office files.
• Yes Share files or folders by link with access controls. Per-file and per-directory password, expiry and access limits.
• Yes Search for files. Search index per mount point.
• Partly Shared spaces for teams. API keys limited to storage paths for separate spaces; no per-user accounts.
• No Real-time co-editing of documents. Not listed.
• Partly Desktop and mobile apps that sync files. WebDAV mount in desktop and mobile clients; no sync client.

Sources:doc.cloudpaste.qzz.io/en/guide/featuresdoc.cloudpaste.qzz.io/en/guide/mount-managementdoc.cloudpaste.qzz.io/en/guide/index-managementgithub.com/ling-drag0n/CloudPaste#readme

R2-Explorer

Google Drive-style file manager for an R2 bucket, with uploads, previews and password-protected share links

What a Google Drive user would miss

Real-time co-editing, sync apps and per-person sharing permissions.

What it adds

Files stay in an R2 bucket in your own Cloudflare account, and the app can also show mail received through Email Routing.

• Yes Store and organize files in folders from any browser. Folders, right-click actions and an R2 bucket behind a browser dashboard; folder renaming is still on the roadmap.
• Yes Upload files and folders. Drag and drop, multipart uploads and folder upload.
• Partly Preview documents, images, PDFs and video in the browser. PDF, images, text, Markdown, CSV and Logpush files; Office documents and video are not listed.
• Partly Share files or folders by link with access controls. Single-file links with optional password, expiry and download limit; no folder sharing or named-person permissions.
• Partly Search for files. Prefix search added in v1.1.14; the README roadmap still lists file search.
• No Shared spaces for teams. Basic Auth users or Cloudflare Access, with no per-user spaces or permissions.
• No Real-time co-editing of documents. Text files can be edited in place only.
• No Desktop and mobile apps that sync files. Browser dashboard only.

Sources:github.com/g4brym/r2-explorer#readmegithub.com/G4brym/R2-Explorer/releases/tag/v1.1.14workspace.google.com/products/drive/