ShareFile

ShareFile

Progress Software
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About

Filestack revolutionizes content management with its powerful, easy-to-use API, offering developers a comprehensive solution for file and media handling. As the #1 developer service for uploads, it enables seamless content ingestion from any source, including web, mobile, and cloud storage. Filestack's intelligent processing capabilities transform, convert, and optimize files on-the-fly, while its high-performance CDN ensures lightning-fast, secure delivery of responsive content. With features like an embeddable viewer for in-app display and flexible storage options, Filestack streamlines the entire content workflow, from upload to delivery, empowering developers to create superior user experiences efficiently.

About

Securely share content and collaborate with clients and internal teams from any device or location with Progress ShareFile. Departments and small businesses need simple, secure solutions to collaborate with clients and each other. With ShareFile, use any device to securely access files, share data, and create time-saving workflows. Simple, quick set-up – no IT required. Share, send any size file on any device: Whether you're in the office or on the go, you'll have secure access to your files anywhere, any time with cloud storage. Know your files are always safe: Bank-level encryption protects your files, emails and attachments in transit and at rest. Collaborate securely: Audit trails and configurable permissions to know and control who is accessing your data. Optimize the client and employee onboarding process: Time-saving workflows reduce manual paperwork all within a single point of collaboration. Secure FTP site alternative: No software installations - for you or your clients

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Audience

Content Management software for everyone

Audience

Companies of all sizes

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

API

Offers API

API

Offers API

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

$69 monthly
Free - $0 forever
Start - $69 billed monthly
Grow - $199 billed monthly
Scale - $379 billed monthly
Enterprise - Custom tailored to your needs
Free Version
Free Trial

Pricing

$50 per month
Free Version
Free Trial

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 4.7 / 5
ease 4.7 / 5
features 5.0 / 5
design 4.5 / 5
support 4.7 / 5

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 4.6 / 5
ease 4.7 / 5
features 4.5 / 5
design 4.5 / 5
support 4.3 / 5

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • I appreciate that Filestack offers an easy integration via API, which really simplifies the process for me. I like how it abstracts away the file transformation bit, including functions like file resize, compress, and convert transformations. Filestack's built-in validation and security provide peace of mind, and I'm impressed by their cloud storage and CDN solutions. As someone constantly deciding between building things in-house or using third-party solutions, Filestack makes outsourcing file handling, storage, and CDN an attractive option.
  • Features a proprietary Content Ingestion Network (CIN) designed to make uploads, especially mobile uploads more reliable. Transformation tools via API. I can easily transform, resize, convert, optimize, and apply effects to images, videos, and documents before they are delivered. This includes format conversions like WEBP to JPG, In addition powerful AI features capabilities like object detection, explicit/unsafe content detection, image tagging, OCR.
  • Handles uploads, conversions, storage & delivery in one API — saves tons of time and reduces dev headaches.
  • Filestack makes uploading files so much easier. Its AI capabilities, like auto-tagging and OCR, save a lot of time, and the CDN support loads files quickly. Filestack is a great choice for smooth file handling!
  • I love that it has loads of source integrations, Built-in CDN, and AI features

Cons

  • Pricing is a very minor concern, for smaller usage it’s fine, but as file volume increases, the costs can mount up Onboarding is straightforward for basic use, but when trying to handle more specific requirements, I had to spend extra time understanding certain parts.
  • Complex workflows require to study closely the documentation to know everything that Filestack offer. in the early day it's important to monitor the billing to understand how much it cost. in particular when using CPU heavy features like AI and converting/resizing.
  • Limited free plan, some features are locked early.
  • Filestack gets expensive as your project grows. While the cost may be a concern for small teams or startups, the performance and reliability can justify it for bigger projects.
  • Filestack gets expensive as the project grows, and the cost can constrain the budget. Also, the docs are lacking

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • It is the security of all our data in a much more immediate way, that it is based on the cloud gives us confidence and the necessary storage to upload all our documents. It is a totally confidential and personalized system; we can create our own useful and unique workspace that allows us to customize in detail adjusting the options to our work requirements. Having access from any device has opened the doors and a million possibilities for each member of the work team to access the application and exchange or receive files properly, without any type of limitation or sending capacity. It allows us to classify the documents to maintain order and organization in all our work, separating by areas, making it much more comfortable for us to search through filters or mobilize the documents. It allows us to store data, everything we want to keep safe Citrix will do it through encryption, we know that it is 100% committed to security and that absolutely everything will be in the cloud under coverage, so if we need to store something immediately, we send it to Citrix and its protection will be assured. In Citrix ShareFile we store the entire database of our clients, we can transfer each data, organize and categorize and thanks to the security that it provides us, I know that the data of each of our clients will always be safe.
  • For our organization, Sharefile has been of complete benefit because it is perfect for making important and confidential contracts relying completely on the anti-hacking security it offers. Similarly, it has partnerships and integration with Office formats that makes it easy to synchronize and store files in the cloud to share with any employee who has access to the account.
  • Simple to manage. Simple for end my users to use. Simple for my users to use with their clients. Can layer security as deep as you want.
  • It has a good integration alliance with Office and allows us to work collaboratively with all the files we have synchronized without exception. Likewise, it is useful for sharing elements to manage confidential contracts with the security that the platform provides and avoids hacking or information leaks.
  • With Sharefile all our information stored in the cloud can be easily accessible, and we can create, in addition to our own folders for purely personal use, a file box for files that we do not need at the moment, but in the long term, and a trash, with files that eventually will be deleted.

Cons

  • I find the integration with other important platforms of which I would like to guarantee the storage of data that I contain there but I have not been able to due to its lack of integration solidity. We had billing automatically and when we wanted to make some adjustments at the time it was difficult for us to do this and we had to contact support to solve it, being able to configure it on our own would be much better and more efficient. Managing the permissions is not that comfortable either, many times we need to adapt the permissions so that several colleagues are also administrators, and it is cumbersome to add them one by one as we want. It has not been an error or nothing else has happened to us, but we receive constant notifications that the system is being updated and we do not know why, why it is so constant or if it is an error. We do believe it is important that the interface be expanded with new and better tools that give us a much broader and more solid user experience when it comes to sharing, editing, and organizing files. Sometimes we find that it does not synchronize in real time, which interferes with our work, we must update many times until new data or documents appear. I think there are a couple of important points that I truly believe that if they are improved, it can make Citrix a perfectly safe and comfortable place to store each of our important data.
  • With the daily use of the application we have observed that when you have an estimated 20GB of storage usage, the platform becomes very slow and it is difficult to process certain functions. Similarly, when transferring files that exceed a weight of 1G Sharefile has an unexpected shutdown and very rarely deletes files that were previously synced.
  • There are no cons that I have come across thus far.
  • Although its specifications clarify that it has a capacity to share large files up to 100GB, we have found that the platform becomes slow and transfers are mostly cancelled. Also, we have had problems with synchronization and deletion of less heavy files without recovery option.
  • Sharefile has its own inbox for messages, but this cannot be connected to our main mailing service, so with Sharefile we cannot manage our Outlook or Gmail mailing lists automatically, forcing us to opt for purely manual management of our content.

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Company Information

Filestack
Founded: 2012
United States
www.filestack.com

Company Information

Progress Software
Founded: 1981
United States
www.sharefile.com

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Categories

Categories

Document Management Features

Access Controls
Archiving & Retention
Collaboration Tools
Compliance Tracking
Document Archiving
Document Assembly
Document Capture
Document Conversion
Document Delivery
Document Indexing
Document Retention
Electronic Signature
Email Management
File Recovery
File Type Conversion
Forms Management
Full Text Search
Offline Access
Optical Character Recognition
Print Management
Version Control

File Sharing Features

Audit Trail
Chat / Messaging
Collaboration
Document Management
Drag & Drop
Electronic Signature
Encryption
File Synchronization
Search
User Management
Version Control
Workflow Management

Content Management Features

Audio Content
Customizable Templates
Document Indexing
E-forms
Full Text Search
Image Editor
SEO Management
Text Editor
Version Control
Video Content
Website Management

Document Management Features

Access Controls
Archiving & Retention
Collaboration Tools
Compliance Tracking
Document Archiving
Document Assembly
Document Capture
Document Conversion
Document Delivery
Document Indexing
Document Retention
Electronic Signature
Email Management
File Recovery
File Type Conversion
Forms Management
Full Text Search
Offline Access
Optical Character Recognition
Print Management
Version Control

File Sharing Features

Audit Trail
Chat / Messaging
Collaboration
Document Management
Drag & Drop
Electronic Signature
Encryption
File Synchronization
Search
User Management
Version Control
Workflow Management

Integrations

Wufoo
AuthPoint
Bigtincan
BlueCamroo
Cloud FastPath
Cognito Forms
Data Identification Manager™
Desktop.com
Device Magic
Facebook
GitHub
Gmail
Google Drive
Microsoft OneDrive
QuickBooks Online
QuickBooks Online Advanced
Quickwork
ShareFile Virtual Data Room
Stackreaction
Symphony OCR

Integrations

Wufoo
AuthPoint
Bigtincan
BlueCamroo
Cloud FastPath
Cognito Forms
Data Identification Manager™
Desktop.com
Device Magic
Facebook
GitHub
Gmail
Google Drive
Microsoft OneDrive
QuickBooks Online
QuickBooks Online Advanced
Quickwork
ShareFile Virtual Data Room
Stackreaction
Symphony OCR
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