How CelDrive works

Three steps. Fully managed. Setup is automatic the moment you sign up.

Sign up

Free Starter tier: 10 GB, no credit card. We provision your private cloud bucket automatically in seconds. Upgrade later, your data and devices come with you.

Install on your computers

Open the setup wizard, pick your operating system (macOS, Linux, Windows), and follow the on-screen guide. It takes about a minute per device. Add as many devices as your plan allows.

Use it like a normal folder

A ~/celdrive folder appears on every computer you've added. Drop files in, take files out. To free up local space, run celdrive reclaim wizard (or click "Reclaim space" in the app). It moves your biggest folders into the cloud and leaves symlinks so apps that hardcode paths keep working. Toggle memory, compute, and GPU sessions from the same dashboard.

The whole experience runs in the CelDrive app: no terminal, no config files, no cloud dashboards. View the cheat sheet →

Why this matters: what changes when you remove the ceiling

The pain isn't abstract. It's the moment a 30 GB AI model won't download. It's the fan spinning up to render a video. It's closing Slack to free a gig of RAM for one more browser tab. CelDrive turns those cliffs into non-events. Same computer, no ceiling.

Before CelDrive

"Storage Almost Full": every new download forces another delete
Heavy work crawls: exports, builds, AI runs leave you waiting and the fan howling
RAM is a zero-sum game: close Slack / Spotify / Mail to keep 40 browser tabs alive
Battery dies by lunch: anything heavy running locally drains a full charge
Old laptop feels obsolete, but a new one is $2,400 you'd rather not spend

With CelDrive

Endless room: the reclaim wizard frees 240 GB+ on day one by moving big folders into your cloud bucket
Heavy work runs elsewhere: celdrive compute run ships exports, builds, and AI runs to a faster cloud VM
RAM gets reclaimed: idle apps pause and free 1–4 GB of memory, wake in a click
Battery lasts: the heavy lifting runs in the cloud, not your lap
Keep the laptop, upgrade the workflow: no hardware, no reinstall, no data migration

94s → 0s

Heavy build, offloaded to the cloud

$120/mo → $0.00/hr

GPU SaaS subscription vs pay-by-the-second on demand

– → 0

Local disk freed by extending into the cloud

$2,400 → $0/mo

Hardware upgrade you don't have to buy

How the pieces fit together

One CelDrive app on your computer (macOS, Linux, Windows). One private cloud host in the region you pick. One S3-compatible bucket scoped to your account. Your data, your region, your keys. We provision and run it for you, but we never share it across customers.

Install on every computer you own. About a minute each.

Two ways to install. Use whichever feels familiar. Same outcome, same folder, same account.

Visual setup wizard (recommended)

Sign in at app.celdrive.com, click "Set up a device", pick your computer (Mac, Windows, Linux), and follow the on-screen steps. The wizard checks the install for you and shows a green checkmark when your CelDrive folder is ready.

Open the wizard →

One-line install (for terminal users)

If you live in a terminal, run one of the commands below on each computer. Same setup, same account, no extra steps.

macOS / Linux

$ curl -fsSL https://celdrive.com/install.sh | bash

Windows (PowerShell)

PS> iwr -useb https://celdrive.com/install.ps1 | iex

macOS

Native NFS mount. No kernel extension, no reboot, works on Apple Silicon and Intel

Linux

FUSE mount on any modern distro (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Arch, NixOS)

Windows

PowerShell installer + WinFsp mount + Scheduled Task auto-start on Windows 10/11

iOS & Android

Native apps shipping next. Join the waitlist

Ready?

Get started free. 10 GB, no credit card, no time limit.