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Paperclip vs Uploadcare: What are the differences?
What is Paperclip? *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.
What is Uploadcare? File uploads, media processing, and adaptive delivery for web and mobile. Uploadcare is a complete file handling platform for online business. Receive files from you users via File Uploader or File Upload API, implement image optimization and transformations with Image CDN API, and get HIPAA-compliant storage.
Paperclip and Uploadcare belong to "File Uploads" category of the tech stack.
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.
According to the StackShare community, Uploadcare has a broader approval, being mentioned in 19 company stacks & 17 developers stacks; compared to Paperclip, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.
Pros of Paperclip
Pros of Uploadcare
- Great team10
- Simple image upload with widget6
- Easy to integrate into any website5
- Awesome support5
- <a href="http://fixbit.com/">useful tool</a>1
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Cons of Paperclip
Cons of Uploadcare
- Upload widget is large (114KB)1
- no cons0