aria2 VS rclone

Compare aria2 vs rclone and see what are their differences.

aria2

aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink. (by aria2)

rclone

"rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Yandex Files (by rclone)
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aria2 rclone
114 960
33,246 43,262
1.7% 2.3%
7.7 9.8
4 days ago 5 days ago
C++ Go
GNU General Public License v3.0 only MIT License
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aria2

Posts with mentions or reviews of aria2. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-29.

rclone

Posts with mentions or reviews of rclone. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-13.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing aria2 and rclone you can also consider the following projects:

syncthing - Open Source Continuous File Synchronization

Cryptomator - Multi-platform transparent client-side encryption of your files in the cloud

rsync - An open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer. It also has useful features for backup and restore operations among many other use cases.

Duplicati - Store securely encrypted backups in the cloud!

s3fs-fuse - FUSE-based file system backed by Amazon S3

yt-dlp - A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader

axel - Lightweight CLI download accelerator

aws-cli - Universal Command Line Interface for Amazon Web Services

restic - Fast, secure, efficient backup program

BorgBackup - Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption.

onedrive - OneDrive Client for Linux

Duplicacy - A new generation cloud backup tool