spacedriveapp/spacedrive
Spacedrive is an open source cross-platform file explorer, powered by a virtual distributed filesystem written in Rust.
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Where it stands
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1 release in the last 90 days, the latest 29 days ago, with 117 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #5 in the weekly ranking the week of Dec 28, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Implements a cross-platform file manager using a virtual distributed filesystem written in Rust for unified multi-device file organization.
- Enables local-first peer-to-peer sync with content-aware deduplication and semantic search, preserving data ownership and privacy without central servers.
- Use for managing and synchronizing files securely across multiple personal devices without relying on cloud providers.
- Use for building custom file management workflows with WASM-based extensions for domain-specific functionality and AI-powered features.
- Use for developing privacy-focused applications that require offline-first file access and distributed content addressing across heterogeneous storage.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
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From the README
A file manager built on a virtual distributed filesystem
Spacedrive is an open source cross-platform file manager, powered by a virtual distributed filesystem (VDFS) written in Rust.
Organize files across multiple devices, clouds, and platforms from a single interface. Tag once, access everywhere. Never lose track of where your files are.
Computing was designed for a single-device world. The file managers we use today—Finder, Explorer, Files—were built when your data lived in one place: the computer in front of you.
The shift to multi-device computing forced us into cloud ecosystems. Want your files everywhere? Upload them to someone else's servers. The convenience came at a cost: data ownership. This wasn't accidental—centralization was the path of least resistance for solving multi-device sync.
Now AI is accelerating this trend. Cloud services offer intelligent file analysis and semantic search, but only if you upload your data to their infrastructure. As we generate more data and AI becomes more capable, we're giving away more and more to access basic computing conveniences.
The current system isn't built for a world where:
Spacedrive is infrastructure for the next era of computing. It's an architecture designed for multi-device environments from the ground up—not cloud services retrofitted with offline support, but local-first sync that scales to the cloud when you want it.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+687 stars over 87 days across 12 snapshot days; best day +23 on Oct 12.
Forks
1.4K+49
Open issues
66+19
Compared with peers in Mobile
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| elie222/rakazo | 7.8K | +958 | 75 | today |
| rustdesk/rustdesk | 128.9K | +859 | 75 | 1 day ago |
| spacedriveapp/spacedrive | 39.4K | — | 63 | 29 days ago |
| Category median | 38.3K | +1.0K | 75 | — |
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