What are your thoughts on filen? I don’t seem to be able to find a community for them here, but it seems like a pretty solid up and coming company for secure cloud storage options.
Film is a nice, up and coming company. I tried their services, all works. Client-side encryption is definitely a great feature. The downside for me was how the iOS app literally kills the battery.
I like them. You get 40GB for free, so that’s appreciative. Opening documents can take some time, especially on mobile, but I don’t have any major complaints generally.
I’ve noticed this too. I have to open the app for sync to start happening. I raised this concern to their customer support and they quickly responded saying they’ll pass it to the dev team. Fingers crossed they add a fix soon.
I’ve never seen anyone say they’re dissatisfied. I’ve seen claims that lifetime plans are a bad business model and I’ve seen one of the owners say they are careful to limit them. Their apps suck but I use them as an off site archive for my most precious data and while I wouldn’t let them be my only backup they have yet to cause me issues in several years.
I actually emailed their support asking about the lifetime licensing, and they did mention they calculate/ limit the lifetime licenses to be sustainable. I hope they are able to succeed and be around for a while with their price modeling. Maybe lifetime won’t be for sale for much longer
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