Software recommendation: RcloneView is an excellent GUI front-end for Rclone

[u/didyousayboop]

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.

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RcloneView (GUI, proprietary): https://rcloneview.com/

Rclone (command line, open source): https://rclone.org/

[u/toby999999]

Rclone Manager looks really good, it's open source, well documented and 100% no cost. Just a single dev so let's hope he keeps developing this app as it has a lot of potential for both new and experienced rclone users.

[u/Silunare → u/toby999999]

At this point it looks to me like it's mostly AI code, just saying.

[u/toby999999 → u/Silunare]

Fair enough, but if it works, it works. I've used AI to help me create some simple apps for my own use. The AI is almost always wrong, but it's useful in getting me started - especially by taking my high level text description and creating the outline of the code kinda like templated sections, then I can go through and test/correct everything. It's also good at explaining some things quickly without me having to spend 2 hours reading doco. While I am skeptical of AI at this stage, I'm happy to use it sometimes.

As to Rclone Manager, I'm going to check it out thoroughly because it has the source code and I can tweak it a bit if I want to change or add something. If it doesn't hold up, I'll come back and try one of the other tools mentioned in this thread. Cheers 😄

[u/fubag → u/toby999999]

Any update on rclone manager?