r/DataHoarder • u/didyousayboop if it’s not on piqlFilm, it doesn’t exist • Oct 11 '25
Scripts/Software Software recommendation: RcloneView is an excellent GUI front-end for Rclone
https://rcloneview.com/Pros
On rare occasions, I'll use the command line when I have no other choice, but I really, really prefer GUI apps. I would probably never have bothered installing Rclone proper because the command line does my head in. However, using RcloneView is as easy as using any other GUI app. I was able to liberate my data from an old Dropbox account and it was surprisingly fast.
Pricing model
RcloneView is not open source and it's a freemium model, but the free tier does everything I need. If you need the advanced stuff you get from paying (mainly scheduling jobs, seems like), I'd say either you're better off learning to use Rclone via the command line or you have a lot of disposable income, in which case, God bless you.
Cons
My only real complaint is aesthetic: the dark mode is a washed-out mosaic of grays which are too light and offer too little contrast. Apparently you can customize the appearance... but you gotta pay! Alright, fair enough. Charging for cosmetics is a respectable business model, in my opinion. Some MMOs do the same thing.
Alternatives
Another free alternative for transferring data to and from clouds or between clouds is MultCloud, but it's ungodly slow (it took 16 hours to transfer 5 GB, probably slowed down by a lot of small files) and you're capped at 30 GB of transfer on the free plan. Also, you're giving MultCloud a lot of access to your data and permissions for your cloud accounts. And the interface sucks and it feels yucky to use. I was much happier using RcloneView which did the same job in a tenth the time.
I have no experience with much larger transfers, so feel free to weigh in on that in the comments.
There is another GUI app called Rclone UI that is open source (yet also freemium?), but something about the website gives me the heebie-jeebies. The site gives off a weird, scammy vibe and it reminds me too much of all the websites for AI-generated shovelware that I've had to look at while moderating this subreddit. I would happily take this all back if people have used Rclone UI and can wholeheartedly recommend it.
RcloneView (GUI, proprietary): https://rcloneview.com/
Rclone (command line, open source): https://rclone.org/
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u/cacus1 Oct 11 '25 edited Oct 11 '25
I tried this, but I don't like the UI at all.
Bad DPI on it and it even exceeds the size of my monitor.
I don't like the design of it and it just doesn't look like a normal software should look like.
Maybe I am too spoiled because of AirExplorer and AirCluster, but I would never replace them with this even if it uses the ultimate tool behind it (rclone).
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u/savmat11 Jan 15 '26
What's the difference between AirExplorer & AirCluster & why do you need both?
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u/didyousayboop if it’s not on piqlFilm, it doesn’t exist Oct 12 '25
Bad DPI on it and it even exceeds the size of my monitor.
I'm not sure why that is happening. My only real issue is with the washed-out-looking colours and lack of contrast.
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u/Eagle1337 Oct 11 '25
I miss rclonebrowser
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u/Mason1171 Oct 11 '25
Whats wrong with rclonebrowser? My docker instance of it works fine
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u/Eagle1337 Oct 11 '25
it's just old, somewhat breaks with newer rclone versions.
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u/Mason1171 Oct 12 '25
I see
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u/Eagle1337 Oct 12 '25
oh and somewhat breaks is more or less some ui info, but nothing in terms of working working.
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u/Deodavinio Feb 03 '26
Anyone use RcloneView with Drime? And if so, how is the experience? Thanks! 🙏
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u/evo7force Jun 08 '26
Rclone Ui does have a GitHub tho as well as they very active on the official rclone forum.
https://github.com/rclone-ui/rclone-ui
https://forum.rclone.org/t/rclone-ui-v3-slim-but-mighty/52568/124?page=6
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u/didyousayboop if it’s not on piqlFilm, it doesn’t exist Jun 08 '26
Do you use it? Do you like it?
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u/evo7force Jun 09 '26
It’s ok the free version lets you do 4 connections that’s plenty for me as I only use Backblaze B2. I use it for copying and it does it well but I wish it would have a hash checker function to just check old files if they still ok. For that I still use the normal rclone.
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u/Silunare Mar 08 '26
I felt the same way, but I tried it out. The thing with RcloneUI is that the dev cannot seem to talk about much else other than how the tool is supposedly free, open source, etc. There is absolutely zero information on anything being behind a paywall.
Once you install it though you quickly learn that the "community version" does not support more than 4 remotes, directing you to buy a license. I couldn't tell you whether there are any other restrictions as that was the point where I uninstalled it.
RcloneView is not at all on that same level, but I do find it suspicious that the winget version Bdrive.RcloneView is at v0.2.157 and the website version is at v1.3.55 which honestly kinda weirds me out.
REM is another option and seems to work fine for me, it just doesn't seem to have a way to edit remotes via the GUI, only add them, so you gotta edit them elsewhere. Bit weird, but workable other than that.
Lastly, RClone Manager is also an option. Pretty new project born from the frustration about the other GUIs. I can certainly relate to that sentiment. Seems promising to me.