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What is Elwood

Elwood is an open source Dropbox alternative.

• [x] Lighting fast, resumable uploads
• [x] Real-time, multi-user collaboration
• [x] Simple user management
• [x] File previews for images, videos, and documents (text, pdf, markdown)
• [x] Desktop app
• [ ] Mobile app
• [ ] Public link sharing
• [ ] Role-based access control (RBAC)
• [ ] Unified search with external providers (S3, Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, etc)
• [ ] AI chat based file manager assistant
• [ ] Zero knowledge, end-to-end encrypted file storage

Elwood is currently in public BETA. We are actively developing and improving the code & documentation. If you have any questions, please reach out to us at hello@elwood.software.

📦 Demo

You can try out the latest version of Elwood at demo.elwood.software, with these credentials:

• demo@elwood.software:demo

🚀 Development

To develop locally, you will need to have the following installed:

• Docker
• pnpm
• Node.js
• Deno
• Supabase CLI

To get started, run the following commands:

1. git clone https://github.com/elwood-software/elwood.git
2. supabase up
3. ./scripts/seed-storage.ts
4. pnpm install
5. pnpm dev
6. open http://localhost:3002
7. login with:
8. admin@elwood.local:admin
9. member@elwood.local:member
10. no_member@elwood.local:no_member

:raised_hand: Support

• Community Forum: Good for developer discussion, help debugging, ask questions. Not sure, start here
• Discord: Join our Discord Server
• GitHub Issues: Good for bugs and errors in running Elwood locally
• Email Support: Good for saying hi

🏛️ License

Distributed under the Apache-2.0 license. See LICENSE for more information.

📧 Contact

Elwood - support@elwood.software