07-18-2026, 01:48 PM
Well, it's not a true analog, but Nextcloud is pretty much it. You do have to run a client to sync to local folders, but once that is set up you are good.
EDIT: That isn't entirely true actually. Nextcloud is at its heart a cloud service, so the files have to live on a server. So it does mean that in the case of running your own server, you will always have +1 copies of whatever those files are (one on each client that you use like normal folders, and one in the server that is "locked" away because of sophisticated file versioning and all the things that cloud file servers do).
The closest thing you have to dropbox is probably SyncThing. I've used it a lot to sync files with my phone. I don't know how dropbox works these days, but you put SyncThing on each client and connect them together over the local network. It can work over the internet, but your will need to set up a VPN tunnel for that purpose.
EDIT: That isn't entirely true actually. Nextcloud is at its heart a cloud service, so the files have to live on a server. So it does mean that in the case of running your own server, you will always have +1 copies of whatever those files are (one on each client that you use like normal folders, and one in the server that is "locked" away because of sophisticated file versioning and all the things that cloud file servers do).
The closest thing you have to dropbox is probably SyncThing. I've used it a lot to sync files with my phone. I don't know how dropbox works these days, but you put SyncThing on each client and connect them together over the local network. It can work over the internet, but your will need to set up a VPN tunnel for that purpose.