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Filestack vs Paperclip: What are the differences?

Developers describe Filestack as "Easy, Powerful File Uploads". Filepicker helps developers connect to their users' content. Connect, Store, and Process any file from anywhere on the Internet. On the other hand, Paperclip is detailed as "*A file attachment management for ActiveRecord *". 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.

Filestack and Paperclip can be categorized as "File Uploads" tools.

Paperclip is an open source tool with 9.06K GitHub stars and 2.06K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Paperclip's open source repository on GitHub.

Tilt, CodeCombat, and Binary.com are some of the popular companies that use Filestack, whereas Paperclip is used by ChooseYourBoss, Tam Development LLC., and Florence. Filestack has a broader approval, being mentioned in 35 company stacks & 21 developers stacks; compared to Paperclip, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.

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      What is Filestack?

      Filepicker helps developers connect to their users' content. Connect, Store, and Process any file from anywhere on the Internet.

      What is 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.

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