Guides/Elba vs Tresorit
Elba vs Tresorit: team cloud vs personal folder
Tresorit is built for teams and compliance. Elba is built for one person and one folder. If you're deciding between them, you're really deciding what job you're doing.
Tresorit is right when
You need shared folders, granular permissions, audit trails, and an SLA.
Elba is right when
You need one folder sealed on your own machine and would like the whole program to fit in one HTML file.
Questions people actually ask
- Can Elba be used inside a company?
- For individual, per-user folders — yes. For team collaboration — no.
Take the island
Elba is one HTML file. It runs locally in a Chromium browser, seals a folder with AES-256-GCM, never phones home, and becomes open source on 1 January 2030.
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