What is Filestack?

Filepicker helps developers connect to their users' content. Connect, Store, and Process any file from anywhere on the Internet.
Filestack is a tool in the File Uploads category of a tech stack.

Who uses Filestack?

Companies
36 companies reportedly use Filestack in their tech stacks, including WeTravel, QuizUp, and Teachable.

Developers
46 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Filestack.

Filestack Integrations

GitHub, Google Drive, Dropbox, Amazon CloudFront, and OneDrive are some of the popular tools that integrate with Filestack. Here's a list of all 10 tools that integrate with Filestack.
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Filestack's Features

  • Connect your app to everything from Dropbox to Gmail in just 2 lines of code and let Filepicker.io handle the mess of uploading files - we give you a clean, short URL that is easy to store and read from.
  • Your files are stored in your existing S3 bucket. We handle all the complicated javascript and backend APIs to give you a clean and elegant way of saving files directly to your S3 bucket.
  • To make it even easier to work with user content, we enable image post-processing. This way, regardless of what type of file a user uploads from the Cloud or their local device, you can be sure it's in exactly the right size. To convert an image, take the filepicker url and append /convert, along with query parameters specifying what you want to change.
  • Pick Widget (supports Box, Computer, Dropbox, Evernote, Facebook, Flickr, FTP, GitHub, Google Drive, Skydrive, Picasa, Gmail, Instagram)
  • Drag-Drop Widget
  • Export Widget
  • Drag-Drop Pane
  • Custom Logo and CSS
  • Multiple Administrators
  • Insights and Analytics
  • 99.9% Uptime
  • Email and Phone Support

Filestack Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Filestack?
Cloudinary
Cloudinary is a cloud-based service that streamlines websites and mobile applications' entire image and video management needs - uploads, storage, administration, manipulations, and delivery.
Uploadcare
Uploadcare is file management platform and a CDN for user-generated content. It is a robust file API for uploading, managing, processing, rendering, optimizing, and delivering users’ content.
Paperclip
It is intended as an easy file attachment library for ActiveRecord. The intent behind it was to keep setup as easy as possible and to treat files as much like other attributes as possible.
CarrierWave
This gem provides a simple and extremely flexible way to upload files from Ruby applications. It works well with Rack based web applications, such as Ruby on Rails.
Uppy
Uppy is a sleek modular file uploader for web browsers. Add it to your app with one line of code, or build a custom version with just the plugins you need via Webpack/Browserify. 100% open source, backed by a company (Transloadit).
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