If I’m honest, Strongsync seems more like a new generation of ExpanDrive. Even the Strongsync webpage still listed Dropbox support as ‘coming soon’. Last night when I went to the website looking for information about the Dropbox integration, there was none. They have information about ExpanDrive and Strongsync intermixed, so it’s easy to be looking for Strongsync info and suddenly realize you are reading something about ExpanDrive instead. The website and company is clearly set up to sell one product (ExpanDrive) and now they’ve added a second one, but you see ‘ExpanDrive’ in a lot of places where it should be ’Strongsync’ - including when you go to authorize it to Dropbox. For example, moving a large folder from one folder to another gives you a ‘progress bar’ which basically tells you nothing other than ‘please wait’ with no clue how long it will take to finish. I’m sure they’ll get there eventually, but will it be a week? A month? 6 months? Then again, Google Drive doesn’t work at all on M1 Macs. The problem is that now it has been awhile, and they still have nothing to show for it, not even a beta. has been completely silent on this issue makes me think they realize it’s going to be awhile. ( Side note: The fact that Dropbox is still not native on Apple Silicon and that Dropbox, Inc.

The main benefit here is that you don’t need to have the Dropbox app installed, it’s native on Apple Silicon, and it is using Apple’s recommended “File Provider” APIs (or something, the point is that they’re doing this the way Apple wants you to do this). I started using this last night, so it isn’t a full review, just an initial impression.ĭropbox support in Strongsync seems to work every bit as well and as fast as Dropbox natively if you use “Smart Sync” and don’t have everything sync’d locally. The big question to me is - is there a meaningful benefit of Strongsync over Expandrive? Apparently now Strongsync supports Dropbox as well

Expandrive vs strongsync