Maestral
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
0warn against
Jan 1, 2026first mention
Jul 8, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I replaced the official client by Maestral years ago”
switched from Dropbox official clienton “Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down”
“I use the open source client https://maestral.app/ on the Mac for workstation use”
Mac workstation useron “Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use y…”
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“Maestral is a cross platform implementation of the Dropbox client API which I use on low end Linux machines”
“Works like a charm for me.”
switched from Dropboxon “Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own you…”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Threads where it came up
- Nothing at all like the bloated app that Dropbox's Mac client has grown into 1 mention
- Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down 1 mention
- Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead 1 mention
- Show HN: Replacing my OS process scheduler with an LLM 1 mention
- Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC, put Linux on it 1 mention
Data: maestral.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 5
“I used to recommend https://github.com/samschott/maestral but it appears to have been archived and no longer maintained”
“I replaced the official client by Maestral years ago”
“I use the open source client https://maestral.app/ on the Mac for workstation use”
“Maestral is a cross platform implementation of the Dropbox client API which I use on low end Linux machines”
“Works like a charm for me.”