Eltima also offers a fully functional 15-day trial version for those who prefer to try before buying.Īfter installing CloudMounter and logging into one of the aforementioned accounts, your remote storage appears as a volume with a colorful icon on the desktop, which can be used to drag and drop files just like local hard drives. Not a bad deal, but if you’re the old school type who would rather buy once and own forever (or at least until the inevitable version 4.0 comes along) we’d recommend bypassing the Mac App Store and heading straight to the Eltima website to purchase a perpetual license for $44.99. Or you can pay $9.99 every three months or $29.99 annually for unlimited connections. You can download CloudMounter from the Mac App Store, which has the limitation mention above. If you want to access multiple cloud accounts or other services like Amazon S3, FTP/SFTP, WebDAV, or Box, you need to pay an additional fee. For starters, this ingenious menu bar utility is now free to download and use – as long as you can get by accessing a single Dropbox, Google Drive, or Microsoft OneDrive account, that is. Plenty has changed since we reviewed the original release of Eltima Software’s promising CloudMounter in 2016. CloudMounter 3.2: First one’s free, pay for more Be that as it may, applications like CloudMounter remain a worthwhile utility if you rely on cloud storage. Bandwidth is the principal concern, because even the speediest internet connections available to consumers aren’t nearly enough to transfer gigabyte-plus sized files as fast as attaching external hard drives to your Mac. Mounting cloud storage on the desktop is a great idea with a few inherent limitations built in.
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