Mobile app · Backup & sync
Phylum Drive
Phylum Drive is a file storage and sharing mobile app, available on Android: self-hosting on your own server, offline use and version history.
- Completely free
- Android
- Open source
Overview
Phylum Drive is a file storage and sharing mobile app, available on Android.
Features described in its F-Droid listing: self-hosting on your own server, offline use, version history and central authentication (LDAP, SSO…).
Services and protocols mentioned: Dropbox and Google Drive.
Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.
Excerpts that establish this information
- “Self-hosted Cloud File Storage Platform” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
- “Self-hosted Cloud File Storage Platform” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
- “Phylum is a self-hosted cloud file storage platform with offline-first web and native clients, meant as a replacement for Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
- “↺↻ File version history” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
- “ Auth backends (LDAP, OIDC)” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
- “🌍 Publicly share files/folders” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
- “Please note that this app requires a server to connect to.” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026
At a glance
All of Phylum Drive is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.
Its licence (AGPL-3.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.
Strengths
- Open source code
- No advertising
- Commercial use allowed
Sources and checks
- Facts collected from F-Droid (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, ads, commercial use, version) —
- Last technical check: 6 November 2026
- Listing written automatically from verified facts.
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