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Thank you for the reply!

Of course as a part of the Cryptpad team you have a bias, but if I'm looking to replace Google Drive and its functionality, is Cryptpad a good replacement, or is there another one, maybe Nextcloud(?), that could do it better (just user interaction etc wise, not E2EE)?

Would you have a list of things Cryptpad can and can't do compared to other solutions? It would make choosing the best replacement easier.




The choice depends of what you use and how you use Google Drive.

Nextcloud is great. It has the highest coverage towards the Google suite without e2ee.

I believe we at CryptPad have the highest with e2ee. If you go cloud e2ee is an important privacy and security factor.

If you self host it can also be depending on how you are able to protect your server.

CryptPad is more scoped around editing documents. I believe it's a simpler package around the pure google docs functionnality.

Nextcloud is better for storing many docs, photos etc.. And has file sync to your computer and a mobile app.

We don't have comparisons.. But maybe we should.

Here is an independent review of CryptPad: https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/02/07/cryptpad-r...




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