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Filestack

Overview

What is Filestack?

Filestack is a developer service for uploading files from anywhere onto the user's application. Filestack allows software developers to integrate more than 25 of the world’s leading cloud drives with just a few lines of code. End users can…

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Pricing

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Business

$49

Cloud

Premium

$299

Cloud

Pro

Custom

Cloud

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttp://www.filestack.com/pricing

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

Filestack Facebook Permissions Demo

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Demo ImagePicker with FileStack và AngularJS

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Filestack Workflow Tutorial

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Filestack OCR for Taxes

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Product Details

What is Filestack?

Filestack is a developer service for uploading files from anywhere onto the user's application. Filestack allows software developers to integrate more than 25 of the world’s leading cloud drives with just a few lines of code. End users can upload content from websites and mobile apps like Facebook, Instagram, and Dropbox or wherever that content is stored. Filestack enables developers to upload and store large files, transform and manipulate images and other file types, and deliver that content quickly, responsively, across any type of desktop or mobile device. Filestack is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas and has been used by more than 50,000 app developers around the world.

Filestack Features

File Sharing & Management Features

  • Supported: Document files
  • Supported: Image files
  • Supported: Video files
  • Supported: Audio files
  • Supported: File search

Additional Features

  • Supported: File Upload Widget to access files from anywhere
  • Supported: Integrations with Facebook, Dropbox, Google Drive and more
  • Supported: RESTful API to upload files
  • Supported: On-the-fly file transformations to crop, resize and more
  • Supported: CDN partnership for fast file delivery

Filestack Screenshots

Screenshot of The powerful file uploader to connect your users to 20+ cloud drives for fast, reliable uploading.Screenshot of Filestack Document Viewer to embed PDFs, PowerPoints, Excel Files and more directly on your website, without any heavy plugins.Screenshot of Only 2 lines of code to implement Filestack in your application.

Filestack Integrations

Filestack Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesAll
Supported LanguagesCzech, German, English, Spanish, Spanish (Mexican), Faroese, French, Canadian French, Hebrew, Italian, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Chinese (Taiwan), Greek, Spanish (Argentina), Finnish, Indonesian, Korean, Slovak, Ukrainian, Chinese, Serbian, Bulgarian, Malay, Hungarian, Vietnamese
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Filestack has been widely praised by users for its convenience and ability to solve various file upload challenges. Users have found it to be a reliable and off-the-shelf solution for cross-browser frontend file uploads, saving them engineering effort and allowing them to focus on their core business. Additionally, Filestack has been particularly helpful in offering asset hosting for applications, making it easy for users to upload assets and use them on their web presence. Customers have used Filestack to work with files of different types, including images and documents, and have found it invaluable for obtaining customer images with the exact sizing needed for creating gallery wrapped canvas prints. Another key use case is easy S3 uploads, which Filestack has enabled and proved useful for internal tooling.

Filestack is also highly regarded for its ability to transform word or PDF files into secure PDFs with digital signatures, providing an added layer of security for sensitive documents. Furthermore, users appreciate the benefit of not having to maintain upload code as it is taken care of by Filestack. This has made file and image uploading a breeze for users across various web and mobile apps. The product has also been instrumental in solving problems related to uploading large files and distributing them globally, offering reliable solutions that enhance user experience.

In addition to its primary use cases, Filestack has proven valuable for resizing photos uploaded by users, making them fit the gallery and optimizing them for mobile devices. Its image manipulation capabilities have been particularly helpful in enabling users to upload and sort images effortlessly. With Filestack's easy-to-use interface, users can manage, edit, manipulate, and store files and images with ease. The software's extensive functionality extends beyond simple uploading; it serves as a one-stop solution for file storage, sorting, transfer using a CDN - Content Delivery Network, as well as generating reports and storing them securely for end-users. Users have found Filestack useful in compressing images without losing quality, further enhancing their overall experience.

Overall, Filestack has received positive feedback for its simplicity, dependability, and comprehensive solutions. It has enabled users to save time, resources, and effort by providing an out-of-the-box file uploader with excellent support and ease of integration. Whether it's for uploading content to the cloud, removing code and dependencies, or connecting to various cloud sources for quick and easy uploads, Filestack has consistently proven to be a reliable and efficient tool for managing and storing files and media assets.

Seamless Integration: Many users have mentioned that Filestack seamlessly integrates with their existing workflows, such as WYSIWYG Editors and internal tooling for uploading files to S3. They appreciate the ease of integration and how smoothly Filestack can be incorporated into their systems without any complications. Reviewers find the integration process to be smooth and straightforward, allowing them to quickly set up and start using Filestack within their applications.

Efficient Upload Process: Users find the upload experience with Filestack to be seamless and hassle-free. They praise the file picker for its great performance and reliability, stating that it works flawlessly in facilitating the process of uploading files. The intuitive design and functionality of the file picker make it quick and efficient for users to select and upload their files without any difficulties or delays.

Time-saving Solution: Several reviewers have highlighted that Filestack saves them a significant amount of time by handling various file-related tasks efficiently. These tasks include uploads, conversions like PDF to image, securing permissions, and managing file transformations. By automating these processes, Filestack streamlines users' workflow, eliminating manual workarounds and reducing time-consuming tasks. Users greatly appreciate this time-saving aspect of Filestack as it allows them to focus on other important aspects of their work while ensuring reliable file management capabilities.

User Interface: Some users have suggested that the user interface of Filestack could be improved to make it more user-friendly. They have found it confusing and challenging to navigate, especially when managing multiple projects. These difficulties in usability have been a common point of feedback.

File Upload Delays: Several users experienced delays in file uploads, expressing frustration with the slow start-up time when using Filestack. This delay has hindered their workflow and caused inconvenience during the file upload process.

Removal of Free Tier Option: A significant number of users have mentioned the removal of the free tier option as a disadvantage for entry-level customers. The absence of this option has made it difficult for them to explore and evaluate Filestack without committing to a paid plan upfront.

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Excellent Functionality Effortlessly Delivered

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 06, 2021
LK
Vetted Review
Verified User
Filestack
3 years of experience
We use Filestack as a file uploader on our web and iOS apps. It works as promised. It is reliable and easy for our users to manage. FileStack got us started quickly with the conversion of our files. It was very easy to integrate with their APIs, and their conversion rate was excellent. As very flexible you can use your storage or your AWS bucket or [another service] to keep your files uploaded.
  • Easy to use
  • Easy to integrate
  • Very reliable
  • Multiple devices are supported
Cons
  • Tricky to navigate at first
  • No dashboard for the file conversion
  • Their script download used to fail on occasion
The integration is airy and the performance is amazing. Initially, we used our photo file uploader and it worked, but as our needs grew the developmental effort to support new needs took a lifetime. As a development manager, this was a big red flag because uploading files had become a hindrance and time-consuming away from other purposes.
File Sharing & Management (3)
96.66666666666666%
9.7
Video files
100%
10.0
Audio files
100%
10.0
File search
90%
9.0
Cloud Storage Security & Administration
N/A
N/A
Cloud Storage Platform
N/A
N/A
  • Ease of implementation
  • Software works flawlessly
  • Multiple Gateways
We were using Sucuri previously and we had a lot of problems with it, so we switched to Filestack and FileStack has made it possible to connect to cloud resources to download faster and easier. We were given a job to do the same thing that would take a ton of time and money, and it would not be so good. We are very excited to try more with what FileStack has to offer.

Filestack Stacks High in my Book!

Rating: 10 out of 10
November 18, 2021
W(
Vetted Review
Verified User
Filestack
5 years of experience
Filestack is used as our asset (image and video) upload tool that is built into our WYSIWYG editor within our CMS editor. It allows our team, as well as subscribers to our product, to manage their digital assets within our platform. It provides us with a seamless mechanism to upload images and videos to our websites.
  • Digital Asset Management
  • Seamless Integration into WYSIWYG Editor
  • Asset Size Restrictions
Cons
  • Insights and Usage Dashboards
  • Developer Dependencies
  • Pricing Structure
Perfect solution for digital asset management. It does require a bit of development to get the product optimized and ready for deployment, however, it is suitable for nearly every scenario where a user employs a CMS to manage images/videos. Absolutely a better option than building and maintaining your own asset repository.
File Sharing & Management (3)
100%
10.0
Video files
100%
10.0
Audio files
100%
10.0
File search
100%
10.0
Cloud Storage Security & Administration
N/A
N/A
Cloud Storage Platform
N/A
N/A
  • Decreased Development Load/Enabled Developer Bandwidth
  • Ease of Integration into CMS
  • Cost/Time Efficiency Boost
Ease of integration [was] that we had developers who were familiar with implementing Filestack. It also decreased the dependency and load of our Developers since the implementation instructions are fairly straightforward. Filestack is excellent at what it does (asset management) and Cloudinary/Akamai is primarily used to serve content and decrease latency as CDNs.
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