Thank god I stumbled on this before I paid for the full version!
I have spent the last few days researching all of the available sync clients and services and thought that I had finally decided on odrive being the best of them all. Then last night while showing photos on my phone I realized I had not yet downloaded the odrive mobile app, and would definitely need it to open my files since my buying decision was based mainly on end-to-end encryption with zero-knowledge storage. Imagine my surprise when there wasn’t one! Not only that but it has been over a year and a half now since they “started working on it” and still nothing.
This is a fatal error on odrive’s part and it goes without saying that it renders the entire service 100% useless. Why would you offer file encryption without any way for your users to then open them on their devices?
Here are my sync app requirements:
End-to-End Encryption
Zero-Knowledge Storage
Mobile App
Sync External Folders (keep existing file structure)
Selective Sync
Windows Explorer Integration
Moderator note: Edited to remove competitive advertisement. This isn’t the place for that.
The mobile app is under development and should be released alongside the release of the next generation of odrive. I don’t have a delivery date to give, but these new releases are our top Engineering priority.
I’m just wondering what the status is with regards to releasing an mobile version of oDrive? I’ve had a quick look through the forums and you’ve eluded to working on a version…
With apps like Affinity Photo for iOS, a version of oDrive to sync and unsync files to/from my iPad Pro would be incredible. Would mirroring the desktop versions functionality on a mobile device even be possible?
Hi @SaucyWeeTart,
We have mobile apps for both iPhone and Android that are under development, currently. They are part of the next generation of odrive and will be released when that drops.
I don’t have a timeline to give, but the current state of the mobile apps already provide full browsing, download, and upload functionality. The iOS app also has integration into the iOS 11 Files app. We are working to get all of this stuff released as quickly as we can.
Can you confirm if the mobile apps will have camera hook functionality, to allow automatic photo upload to a specific (or even multiple) cloud locations? This is really the only reason I have the mobile apps for my current cloud storage on my phone (over using the web interfaces).
Hi @yukihyou,
Automatic photo upload isn’t scheduled to be part of the first release, although you can upload photos manually. The product team knows that automatic upload is something a lot of folks want, so I wouldn’t be surprised if it makes it in a later release.
I am just wondering if the Android app is completed. I’ve taken a lot of photos with my Samsung Galaxy S7. The phone memory is almost full so I need to back them up to cloud. Though it’s OK to save them on computer but I want to double secure them by storing on both local and cloud. Currently I have uploaded and shared some great photos to [FunForMobile] which is a great website too. Hope to hear good news from you soon.
Hi @outletclarisonic,
The mobile apps will be released as part of the next generation odrive product. We are just waiting for all of the pieces to come together.
Is there any update on this? It’s been another two months without any news… Is there a “TestPilot” version that some of us could test out and provide feedback ?
Hi. I found the mobile app in the Play Store, so I downloaded it. There’s no user guide or anything, and from looking on here it doesn’t seem like it’s a fully-launched product yet. Can you fill us in? I rely on odrive from the desktop, and integrating that with mobile properly would be great. In particular, can I configure odrive as a browsable drive on my phone? Where are the local files held?
Hi @bazeley.tom,
The odrive mobile app that is out is part of the odrive2 platform, so it requires you to create an account on odrive2, even if you already have one on odrive1. You can then link the storage you want and access it all from your phone.
The app stores its cache in a Documents/odrive_cache folder.