Spacedrive
by Spacedrive · Local-first app for files, devices and cloud storage in one index
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Homepage
Overview
Spacedrive connects the files, drives, devices and cloud storage you own into one local-first app you can browse and search. The current version is a native Rust rewrite, GPU-rendered and Mac-first, where every photo, file and note is stored as a record on one index. It runs on your own computer, with optional agents you enable to do work across your data.
- Best for
- People whose files are spread across laptops, NAS, phones and cloud storage and want one local index.
- Pricing
- No prices are shown; the site states only that the new version is bought once, with no subscription, cloud or account.
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Local-first: runs on your machine, no account and no telemetry
- Indexes devices, drives and cloud storage in one library
- Native Rust and GPU-rendered; 129,000 photos scroll at 60fps
- Bought once rather than by subscription
Trade-offs
- New native app is Mac-first; the site says a demo is still coming
- Site admits the product has not yet caught up to the description
- No cloud or account, so nothing syncs or backs up off the machine
- Open-source Spacedrive is a separate project from the paid app
How Spacedrive markets itself
A structured read of the promise, proof and page design on Spacedrive’s captured homepage.
Homepage capture
“Take back your data.”
- Angle: Open source / ownership
- Hero: Product screenshot
Pricing
Published plans and prices from Spacedrive’s own pricing page.
How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
MCP support
Whether an agent can drive the product through the Model Context Protocol, and how much setup that takes.
Documentation
Publicly reachable docs — coverage, freshness, code samples and machine readability.
Agent friendliness
How readable the site is to an automated client: llms.txt, structured data, server-rendered content, crawler access.
Changelog
A public, dated record of what shipped and when — the clearest signal that a product is still alive.
Marketing site structure
Whether the site answers a buyer's questions: clear positioning, the pages that matter, and accessibility.
Page speed
How fast the site loads for real visitors: Chrome UX Report 75th-percentile LCP, INP and CLS, with a Lighthouse mobile run standing in where a site has too little traffic for field data.
Operational trust
Status page and incident history, security disclosure, compliance and data-processing documentation.
Measured, but not part of the score
Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.
Openness
Source availability, self-hosting, data export and open standards. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — paid SaaS is not worse for being paid SaaS.
Maintenance
Release cadence and repository activity. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — it is only measurable for open repositories.
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Where this comes from
The Spacedrive pages BenchRank reads when it scores the product — its documentation, release notes, status and security pages, and its repository where there is one.
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