Your files.
Your photos.
Free cloud storage.
Nimbus is a clean, fast alternative to Google Drive and Photos — free to use, with nothing to install. Create an account, upload your files and photos, and get them back on any device. No subscription, no credit card, no company mining your library. And it’s fully open source.
to sign up and use — no subscription, no card
source under Apache 2.0 — read every line
encryption at rest; private by default
ads or trackers mining your library
How it works
Three steps, and there’s nothing to install.
Create your account
Sign up in seconds with email and a password, or continue with Google or GitHub. Every file and folder is scoped to you — accounts never see each other.
Upload anything
Drag files or whole folders right onto the page. Big files upload in resilient chunks, and a dropped connection pauses and resumes on its own.
Organize, share, find
Folders, stars, and colors; a photo timeline; share links when you need them; and search, Recent, and an activity feed to find anything fast.
What it does
Everything below is built and running today.
Uploads that finish
Files or whole folders, in resilient multipart chunks. A Drive-style tray lets you pause, resume, and cancel — and network drops auto-resume when you're back online.
Photos, done right
A date-ordered photo timeline with a full-screen lightbox — zoom, slideshow, cast to a TV — plus in-browser editing and automatic thumbnails.
Share on your terms
Public, expiring, or named-recipient links for any file or folder. Send what you want, to whom you want, for as long as you want.
Find it fast
Search with filters and saved searches, a Recent view, duplicate detection, and an activity feed that remembers everything you've done.
Private by default
Your files are isolated per account, encrypted at rest with AES-256, and reachable only through short-lived signed URLs. No ads, no tracking.
Bring your old life
Import a Google Takeout export — resumable, and it restores real photo capture dates from Takeout's metadata so your timeline is right.
About
Built with by Ankush Khakale
I’m a student and developer who got tired of watching free cloud credits go to waste while good storage stayed locked behind subscriptions. So I built the alternative — in the open, one reviewed pull request at a time.
Nimbus is the result: a real, working Drive and Photos replacement that anyone can use for free and anyone can read, learn from, or contribute to. If it’s useful to you, a star means a lot.
Roadmap
What’s next for Nimbus
- Connect your own cloud — run on your own AWS free credits (planned)
- A native mobile app — the web UI is already responsive
- Offline read-only access (service worker cache)
- Password-reset email delivery
Start in seconds.
Create a free account and move your files and photos into a cloud that doesn’t charge you or mine your data.