Compared · checked 14 September 2026

HushOS vs Google Drive

Google Drive is the drive most people already have. It is generous and everywhere, and Google can read everything in it.

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Side by side

	HushOS	Google Drive
Can the company read your files?	No, never. Every file and its name is locked on your device before upload. We cannot read either.	Yes. Files are encrypted on Google’s servers with Google’s keys. Client-side encryption exists only on some Workspace business plans, set up by an administrator.
Your password	Never sent to us. Checked on your device with OPAQUE.	Sent to Google to sign in, as with any Google account.
Sharing	With people, by wrapping the folder key for them on your device under X25519 and ML-KEM-768 together, so it stays shut to a quantum computer later; or by a link with an optional password and expiry. Stopping a share changes the keys.	With people or by link, with viewer, commenter and editor roles. Google can read what you share.
Free storage	2 GiB, and more for every friend you invite.	Up to 15 GB, shared across Drive, Gmail and Photos.
Open source	Yes, all of it: the app and the server, under the AGPL. You can read it or run it.	No.
Run it yourself	Yes, for free, with a Docker Compose guide.	No.
Apps	Web app that installs on any phone or computer. Desktop and mobile apps coming very soon.	Web, Windows, Mac, Android and iOS, with Docs, Sheets and Slides built in.
How it is paid for	None. Paid for by people who buy more storage, and by nothing else.	Storage plans, and Google’s advertising business more broadly.

Choose Google Drive if

You want to write documents and spreadsheets together with other people, in the browser, at the same time. Google Docs is very good at that and HushOS does not do it.
You need a lot of free space today. Fifteen gigabytes is far more than the two HushOS starts you with.
You live inside Gmail, Android or Chromebooks, where Drive is already there.

Choose HushOS if

Nobody but you can read your files or their names. Not Google, not us, not a system training on them.
Your password is never sent anywhere.
The code is public, and you can run the whole thing on a machine you own.
Stopping a share actually stops it: the keys change, so what was shared stays shut.

Moving from Google Drive

Download the folders you want from Google Drive (Google Takeout gives you everything at once), then drag them onto your HushOS Drive. Folders come across with their structure, and uploads pick up where they left off if you close the tab.

What this page says about Google Drive was checked against its own published pages on 14 September 2026. Services change; if something here is out of date, tell us on GitHub and we will fix it. What it says about HushOS is explained claim by claim on the security page.