[Syncthing](https://syncthing.net/) is the free version that doesn’t need a subscription. People on here seem to swear by it, I haven’t gotten around to ripping the bandaid of migrating to it yet though.

I hate that even though I paid for the service, the web version still has a banner ad asking me to upgrade. It's so stupid that the "share" button on mobile goes to dropbox's own share and "export" (Android's share and what I usually want) is buried deep in a menu. Also photos, the whole reason I got dropbox (to switch away from Google photos) is a terrible experience. The web photos page is awful, you can't see albums made on mobile and it's slow. Also I have a bug I can't fix where on desktop if photos are downloaded for offline, the thumbnails disappear.

It's frustrating that so many developers have taken such a strong mobile-first approach to the detriment of the desktop; especially something like Dropbox.

I share all these grievances. I hope Drew Houston is reading this.

For a Linux user, you can replicate Dropbox trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.

Syncthing or the open source Maestral client for Dropbox that makes Dropbox just a synced folder again.

Both are pretty robust in my experience.

https://syncthing.net

https://maestral.app

Yeah Dropbox turned greedy by not standing out among competitors. Even OneDrive or Google Drive (free) are good alternatives

Mega cloud

Mega, OneDrive