WebDrive Reviews

Summary: Reliable program great features at a great price. I have been using it for almost three years. I have remotely all my data and my work on the laptop. Highly recommended!!

Positive: Reliable program great features at a great price. I have been using it for almost three years. I have remotely all my data and my work on the laptop.

Negative: No cons. Reliable program great features at a great price. I have been using it for almost three years. I have remotely all my data and my work on the laptop.

Summary: When the pandemic first started, we needed a quick solution for remote work for our team. WebDrive was the answer. We were able to set up the service with our NAS and send out easy to follow instructions for our team.

Positive: Quick integration and ease of installation makes it a quick roll out to multiple team members. Great product.

Negative: One user reported some synchronization issues, but this was isolated and appears to be due to slow internet speeds at one of our user's home office.

Summary: We have been using this platform for many years, and are very happy with the product. Having road-tested some other players in the market initially, WebDrive wins hands down!

Positive: WebDrive provides us with a reliable and fast remote connection to our office server. Easy installation and setup, and user-friendly interface.

Negative: Nothing has presented as an issue for us during the time we have been using Webdrive.

Summary: I spent over 45 years in IT and enjoy using software tools to do my work. I have a need to work with files remotely and Webdrive has provided a single tool source for reaching files over multiple sources of data that I have in the cloud.

Positive: Ease of connecting various cloud sources to a specific drive letter so I can use Explorer or Directory OPUS in an easier manner.

Negative: Some of the options are a little mysterious as how they affect performance etc.

Summary: It works excellent. Great work from the South River Technologies engineers. For us it leaves nothing to be desired.

Positive: We use WebDrive already for several year for access from Windows to a few unix file systems. It works great. The tool is simple to install, very easy to use and extremely reliable.

Negative: For us, none, it does exactly what we want it to do.

Summary: I've been using WebDrive for years. It makes it so much easier to edit my websites' files by just opening them straight into my IDE instead of downloading, editing and then uploading back to my server.

I can't remember my website editing before WebDrive.

Positive: Easy to use.
Treat a remote FTP server as if it was a drive on your computer.
Open, edit and save remote files with ease.

Negative: None, that I can think of at this time, it's always performed perfectly.

Summary: We went looking for a WebDAV client 10+ years ago and decided on using WebDrive. This application has worked very well for us.

Positive: It's a very simple yet powerful client. The ability to quickly connect from the icon in the notification area is nice!

Negative: Nothing now that the latest version doesn't require a system reboot after an installation/upgrade.

Summary: Great program that makes your remote ftp files accessible from anywhere. Looks and feels like local network drives and works as advertised.

Positive: My wife is a real estate broker. Her laptop is her full time travel companion and PC of choice for its mobility and convenience. However, our home PC is where our DATA storage drive is located. The problem with home networked DATA storage for laptops is you end up with data in multiple locations, duplicated and/or scattered across multiple PCs. For far too long, data files would be saved on her laptop while working with clients and then either never make it to the home DATA drive or copied over and the files aren’t synched if an update is made to a file at one location or the other. After searching for options, WebDrive has been our solution of choice for several years. I already had an FTP site setup where I can access my files from anywhere, but WebDrive is perfect for people who aren’t as “techy” and just need things to connect and work like you are on your home network. It starts and connects automatically as soon as her laptop has internet connectivity (WIFI or mobile hot spot). All files reside at one location and are backed up daily within my regular backup process for my home network. We continue to pay for the WebDrive service because it works and is extremely easy to use.

Negative: Remote data files are always at the mercy of the internet connection speed in which they are accessed. We have Gigabit Fiber (up & down) from Century Link at home and as long as your remote internet speed is reasonable, there is no lag in data transfers and editing.

Summary: Overall, I find the software easy to use, and after quite a bit of testing reliable. I use it to sync a fairly large document tree to my PC.

Positive: I use it to create a drive for a site accessible to scp. I don't have a lot of tools available on the site so web drive allows me to sync to the site from my PC.

Negative: The site is not always available, so I always need to confirm when to sync.

Summary: It is a great solution and streamlined our internal and external data access requirements. Very satisfied with it.

Positive: Webdrive is providing an excellent solution to give us seamless offsite access to our central NAS data server. It is ticking all the boxes for us and is highly recommended. Everything is working as expected and we never experience any connection issues while utilizing the WebDrive solution.

Negative: There are really no cons we can mention with using this product.

Summary: Simply put, WebDrive is the easiest and most streamlined way for me to manage the web projects I work on every day. I've used it for -- wow, I don't know, but probably in excess of 15 years if I had to guess. Haven't found anything else that comes close to it for seamless interaction between my various editors and the web server.

Positive: Working on remote files as if they were local. Seamless integration with standard OS browse, open, and save functions. Supports lots of services and transfer protocols. Autoconnect on system startup.

Negative: Transfers sometimes seem slower than more traditional SFTP (but still faster than local save then upload).

Summary: Great!

Positive: S3 and ftp drive mounting capability. I am able to mount almost every type of cloud and ftp drive imaginable.

Negative: None thus far. I have been happy with the product completely.

Summary: I've had a positive experience with the product and support.

Positive: 1. enables access to cloud and company servers as a network drive
2. one interface to all my files, werever they are located
3. set it and forget it

Started using Webdrive about 10-12 years ago to connect to company ftp server. I'm now at a company that uses Sharepoint, so I connect to that, but also to S3 and Onedrive. I probably use this software every day.

Negative: Upgraded to the new version for the first time in 5 years. There are now so many features and settings, that it can be a lot to navigate. Their support is really helpful though, so that was a plus.

Summary: Overall, this is an essential piece of software for anyone who stores data in the cloud. I highly recommend it.

Positive: WebDrive enables Windows Explorer level access to my scattered cloud storage providers. This is a huge benefit because the files are not stored/synced/duplicated locally like the OneDrive software does. They are genuinely kept in the cloud. It's like adding terabytes of storage to your PC.

Negative: I've been a WebDrive customer for years. Several times now after my support expires and my version is no longer current, the OneDrive functionality is lost. I have to re-purchase WebDrive and update the software to the latest version to fix the issue.

Summary: The launch of the most recent WebDrive I considered farcical and untested by serious users. I provided 6 points of missing features compared to the 2019 version, and to be fair you re-instated most of those.
But as I say, the 2019 version remains sold in that even the task tray icon lets me know I'm uploading.

One feature I've asked for numerous occasions but has always been ignored is that of an audible notification of upload... as a web developer I dream of something which can do this so I can refresh my web browser, I use WebDrive hourly, every day, looking at the tray icon to ensure it's uploaded. A simple beep would be more ideal.

So although WebDrive is my MOST USED software ever, I'm sticking with the 2019 version.

Rated 4 stars because the new version isn't as good as the old 2019 version.

Positive: Looks a bit better than previous versions, but originally the new version had less features until I complained.
WebDrive itself is an awesome concept, I can't live without it... but I'm using the older version.

Negative: Task tray icon on newer versions has lost its indication of upload/download. This I relied on extensively since the popup is very buggy again (stops working, I had 2 tickets for old version with same bug which was finally fixed in that!).
So new version now often means I have no idea of activity, so reverted back to 2019 version which I find better.