it sits right next to macintosh hd. your files look and open like normal, in the apps you already use. but they live in the cloud, so a 50 GB film takes no space on your mac.
icloud and dropbox download the whole file before you can open it. then it stays and fills up your mac. shunyadrive only grabs the part you’re watching. hit play on a huge video and it starts right away.
open a 50 GB film and wait for all of it. then it stays on your disk.
only the next few seconds are fetched, a megabyte at a time, just ahead of you.
it lives in your menu bar, quietly keeping everything in sync.
right next to macintosh hd, like any other drive.
done. they upload in the background and free up your mac.
right-click in finder, copy a link. videos play in the browser straight away.
search every file in your drive instantly. works offline too.
send a request link. their uploads land straight in your folder.
deleted something by mistake? bring it back, folders and all.
pick folders to keep on your mac for flights and bad wi-fi.
no window needed. drop it on the icon and it’s on its way.
shunyadrive watches for lag and backs off the moment you need the bandwidth, then speeds up again.
close the lid, lose the signal. nothing starts over.
if two macs save the same file, you keep both versions. nothing is overwritten.
pick the space you need. pay monthly. cancel any time.
not ready? start free with 5 GB. no card needed.
the file lives in the cloud. when you open it, shunyadrive fetches it a megabyte at a time, just ahead of where you’re reading or watching, and keeps a small cache that it trims automatically. your mac only ever holds the part you’re using.
yes. shunyadrive is a real drive in finder, so final cut, premiere, lightroom, logic, vlc, quicktime and anything else open files from it like any disk. no plugins, no special open dialogs.
you can still browse every file and search with ⌃⌥O. folders you keep offline open normally, and anything you save uploads as soon as you’re back online.
nothing gets overwritten. if two macs save the same file at once, you get both: the original and a “conflicted copy” named after the other mac.
shunyadrive measures your connection’s delay while it uploads. as soon as it sees your calls, games or browsing starting to wait, it slows down, then speeds back up when the line is free. you can also set a fixed limit.
one plan, priced per terabyte: $10 per TB each month, with 20% off your first month. change your size any time; the difference is prorated. cancel whenever you like, and your files stay readable while you download what you need.
a mac on macos 14 or later. on macos 26, shunyadrive runs as a native file system extension right next to macintosh hd.
files travel over encrypted connections, share links are unguessable and can be switched off any time, and request links let people send you files without seeing what’s already in the folder.
shunyadrive looks like a normal drive. open a film and it plays right away, because your mac only grabs the part it needs.
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