Elwood Documentation

The open source Dropbox alternative with Lighting fast, resumable uploads. Real-time, multi-user collaboration. Powerful role-based sharing. AI powered assistant (to the) file manager.

Getting Started

Step-by-step guides to setting up Elwood.

Support

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You should know!

Elwood is currently in public BETA. We are actively developing and improving the code & documentation. If you have any questions, please reach out to us at hello@elwood.software.

What is Elwood?

Elwood is an open source Dropbox alternative.

  • ✔️ Lighting fast, resumable uploads
  • ✔️ Real-time, multi-user collaboration
  • ✔️ Simple user management
  • ✔️ File previews for images, videos, and documents (text, pdf, markdown)
  • Public link sharing
  • Role-based access control (RBAC)
  • Unified search with external providers (S3, Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, etc)
  • AI chat based file manager assistant
  • Zero knowledge, end-to-end encrypted file storage
  • Desktop app
  • Mobile app

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