Pydio Cells
Self-hosted document sharing and collaboration platform for the enterprise
Overview
Pydio Cells is a self-hosted file sharing and collaboration platform written in Go, designed as a modern document management alternative to Dropbox and Box for organizations. It offers fine-grained permissions, workspaces, in-app messaging, and an admin console, with sync clients for desktop. It targets teams that need secure, on-premise file collaboration.
Where it falls short of Dropbox
- Smaller community and ecosystem than Nextcloud/Seafile
- Some enterprise capabilities are gated behind the paid Cells Enterprise edition
- Microservices architecture makes setup and troubleshooting more complex than simpler apps
- Office/document co-editing relies on external integrations
We list the gaps honestly so you can decide if the trade-off is worth owning your data.
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