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  3. Paperclip vs Uploadcare vs tus.io

Paperclip vs Uploadcare vs tus.io

OverviewComparisonAlternatives

Overview

Uploadcare
Uploadcare
Stacks73
Followers122
Votes27
Paperclip
Paperclip
Stacks80
Followers44
Votes0
GitHub Stars9.0K
Forks2.4K
tus.io
tus.io
Stacks11
Followers31
Votes0
GitHub Stars1.7K
Forks108

Detailed Comparison

Uploadcare
Uploadcare
Paperclip
Paperclip
tus.io
tus.io

Uploadcare is file management platform and a CDN for user-generated content. It is a robust file API for uploading, managing, processing, rendering, optimizing, and delivering users’ content.

It is intended as an easy file attachment library for ActiveRecord. The intent behind it was to keep setup as easy as possible and to treat files as much like other attributes as possible.

Open protocol for resumable file uploads

Stores files in Uploadcare Storage or connects to your AWS S3 buckets; Delivers content in an instant across 5 continents with Uploadcare CDN; Takes minutes to integrate thanks to series of guides for most popular Web platforms, programming languages, and frameworks; Well-documented and provides live chat or email support; Provides on-the-fly image processing and tools for editing images in desktop and mobile browsers; Lets you resize, crop, rotate, enhance, extract colors, detect faces, and whatnot; Provides REST API to manage your cloud storage; Lets you upload files from multiple sources using File Uploader, raw API, libraries or plugins; Provides HIPAA-compliance and PHI protection;
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HTTP-based;Production-ready;Open source;Minimalistic design;Extensible;Community-owned;Backed by Vimeo & Transloadit
Statistics
GitHub Stars
-
GitHub Stars
9.0K
GitHub Stars
1.7K
GitHub Forks
-
GitHub Forks
2.4K
GitHub Forks
108
Stacks
73
Stacks
80
Stacks
11
Followers
122
Followers
44
Followers
31
Votes
27
Votes
0
Votes
0
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 10
    Great team
  • 6
    Simple image upload with widget
  • 5
    Awesome support
  • 5
    Easy to integrate into any website
  • 1
    <a href="http://fixbit.com/">useful tool</a>
Cons
  • 1
    Upload widget is large (114KB)
  • 0
    no cons
No community feedback yet
No community feedback yet
Integrations
React
React
Stripe
Stripe
Google Drive
Google Drive
Squarespace
Squarespace
Django
Django
WordPress
WordPress
Shopify
Shopify
Zapier
Zapier
Rails
Rails
Ruby
Ruby
No integrations available
Uppy
Uppy
Transloadit
Transloadit
Amazon S3
Amazon S3
Google Cloud Storage
Google Cloud Storage

What are some alternatives to Uploadcare, Paperclip, tus.io?

Transloadit

Transloadit

Transloadit handles file uploading & file processing for your websites and mobile apps. We can process video, audio, images and documents.

Bytescale

Bytescale

Bytescale is the best way to serve images, videos, and audio for web apps. Includes: Fast CDN, Storage, and Media Processing APIs.

Uppy

Uppy

Uppy is a sleek modular file uploader for web browsers. Add it to your app with one line of code, or build a custom version with just the plugins you need via Webpack/Browserify. 100% open source, backed by a company (Transloadit).

Filestack

Filestack

Filepicker helps developers connect to their users' content. Connect, Store, and Process any file from anywhere on the Internet.

CarrierWave

CarrierWave

This gem provides a simple and extremely flexible way to upload files from Ruby applications. It works well with Rack based web applications, such as Ruby on Rails.

Shrine

Shrine

Shrine implements a plugin system analogous to Roda’s and Sequel’s. Shrine ships with over 25 plugins, which together provide a great arsenal of features. Where CarrierWave and other file upload libraries favor complex class-level DSLs, Shrine favours simple instance-level interface.

FilePond

FilePond

A JavaScript library that can upload anything you throw at it, optimizes images for faster uploads and offers a great, accessible, silky smooth user experience.

CameraTag

CameraTag

With one line of code you can easily start collecting videos for applications ranging from video-comments to talent competitions, political action, virtual interviews, talent scouting and more.<br>

Flatfile

Flatfile

The drop-in data importer that implements in hours, not weeks. Give your users the import experience you always dreamed of, but never had time to build.

jQuery File Upload

jQuery File Upload

It is a File Upload widget with multiple file selection, drag&drop support, progress bar, validation and preview images, audio and video for jQuery. Supports cross-domain, chunked and resumable file uploads. Works with any server-side platform (Google App Engine, PHP, Python, Ruby on Rails, Java, etc.) that supports standard HTML form file uploads.

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