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Seafile

Open-source · self-hostable · replaces 1 SaaS tool on os-alt

haiwen/seafile · alive · ★ 14.7k · last commit 4d ago · 85 open issues

License: AGPL-3.0 — Community Edition is AGPL-3.0; Pro Edition adds search, audit, and S3 backend under a commercial license.

Good fit for Teams whose Drive use is dominated by sync — fast desktop client, very efficient on bandwidth, predictable performance at scale.

Weak at Web preview / co-edit story — Seafile leans on file sync rather than browser editing; integrates with OnlyOffice but less polished than Nextcloud.

In a terminal? npx -y github:SolvoHQ/os-alt-cli google-drive prints the Google Drive comparison table including Seafile. how the CLI works →

Replaces these SaaS

  • Google Drive · Cloud file sync + sharing for teams

    Deploy via the official `docker-compose.yml` from manual.seafile.com; create a library per Google Drive folder, install the Seafile desktop client, and drop the Takeout-exported tree under the local sync root. Seafile's killer feature is its block-level sync — it stores file deltas in librarys with content-addressed chunking, so re-uploads are fast and disk usage is low.

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