Cryptomator vs Rclone Crypt or something else?
Privacy Guides Community [Unofficial]
May 24, 2026
Thank you. That was helpful.
I think I’m going to use a combination of cryptomator and rclone crypt for now:
Cryptomator for my most sensitive files that don’t take up much space and are easy enough to keep in sync on my devices and I’ll use rclone crypt to keep a cloud copy of my larger files like photos and media.
Cryptomator seems to be a smidge more secure. But, with rclone crypt, I’ll at least be able to view my large files through rclone mount or command line pretty easily whereas cryptomator has crashed on me in the past if I try to work directly off a mounted rclone drive.
Rclone crypt will also let me be more selective about downloading/uploading individual files without having to first download the whole vault.
The information about OneDrive was also pretty useful. I remember trying to experiment with rclone crypt and it gave me warnings that many of my files weren’t able to sync properly, which I now realize was likely due to the file path being too long for OneDrive due to encrypting file and folder names.
I’m going to have to look more into how to do it so I don’t run into similar issues.
I think I remember reading that Cryptomator purposely encodes its file path lengths to be below a certain limit for maximum compatibility, which would explain why I never experienced any issues.
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