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Air Live Drive vs Rclone

Air Live Drive and Rclone both land on Depends.

Air Live Drive

airlivedrive.com

Depends

Confidence: Medium

Buy it if you juggle several cloud storages and want them mounted as local drives in File Explorer or Finder.

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Rclone

Depends

Confidence: High

If you're comfortable in a terminal and need flexible multi-cloud sync or migration, rclone is free and best-in-class.

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Air Live Drive versus Rclone
Compare	Air Live Drive	Rclone
Verdict	Depends	Depends
Best for	Multi-cloud users wanting Explorer access	CLI-comfortable sysadmins and developers
Who it's not for	Backup or sync needs . it maps drives, doesn't back up	Non-technical users wanting point-and-click
Privacy	No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.	Actively maintained with a disclosure process, but multiple critical 2026 CVEs . patch fast and never expose the API unauthenticated.
Support quality	Only third-party forum chatter found	Active free forum; paid support is separate
Public sentiment	Mixed: forum users call it a workable Mountain Duck alternative, while Redditors report slow file access and frustration.^⁹	Power users call it indispensable and unbeatable for cloud sync, while less technical users find it bloated, confusing, or a reason to give up entirely.
Biggest gotcha	Pro pricing not published in reviewed sources . confirm cost before checkout.^²	Never expose rclone's API publicly . unauthenticated RCE CVEs appeared in 2026

Pick Air Live Drive when

Multi-cloud users wanting Explorer access
Koofr, Mega, OneDrive jugglers
Editing cloud files in Photoshop or Word
Mountain Duck alternative seekers

When Air Live Drive is not a fit

Backup or sync needs . it maps drives, doesn't back up
Single-cloud users whose official desktop app already syncs files
Media streamers . Reddit reports minutes-long file-open delays
Teams needing enterprise admin or audit controls

Pick Rclone when

CLI-comfortable sysadmins and developers
Multi-cloud backup and migration jobs
Self-hosters scripting scheduled syncs
Bulk moves into S3, Drive, Azure

When Rclone is not a fit

Non-technical users wanting point-and-click
Teams needing out-of-the-box GUI and SLAs
Anyone unwilling to patch quickly . critical CVEs recur
Set-and-forget consumer backup needs

Sources

Air Live Drive official siteairlivedrive.com
official
Try the Pro version of Air Live Driveairlivedrive.com
official
5 tools that integrate your cloud storage into Windows File Explorer . PCWorldpcworld.com
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Set Koofr as a Local Disk on Your Computer with Air Live Drivekoofr.eu
official
Air Live Drive 2.4.0 adds Azure Blob Storage supportfacebook.com
official
Mountain Duck Alternative . Air Live Drive blogairlivedrive.com
official
Best software for mounting cloud service as local/network drive . Redditreddit.com
review
Google Drive mappers that can instantly play files . Redditreddit.com
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So.... alternatives? . RaiDrive forumwith.raidrive.com
review
AirLiveDrive's support . DOpus resource forumresource.dopus.com
review
Read Customer Service Reviews of www.livedrive.com . Trustpilot (different company)trustpilot.com
review
Suspected fake GitHub stars detected via clustered accountsgist.github.com
security
Inside The Gentlemen Ransomware Leak . SOCRadarsocradar.io
security
airlivedrive.com Reviews | scam, legit or safe check . ScamAdviserscamadviser.com
security
Rclone official siterclone.org
official
rclone/rclone on GitHubgithub.com
official