Best alternatives to Hoodik in 2026

Most cloud storage — including plenty that calls itself 'encrypted' — decrypts your files on the server at some point, which means the provider technically could look, and a server breach could expose everything. Hoodik is built around a stricter promise: encryption and decryption happen entirely in your browser, so the server that stores your files only ever sees encrypted blobs, never the actual content. It's closer to mailing someone a locked box than mailing a letter and trusting the courier not to read it. Hoodik is a self-hosted cloud storage platform using AEGIS-128L encryption with a quantum-resistant hybrid key-wrapping scheme (X25519 + ML-KEM-768) — meaning it's designed to resist decryption even by future quantum computers, not just today's threats. It includes encrypted markdown notes with a WYSIWYG editor, shareable public links that decrypt only on the recipient's side, two-factor authentication, an admin dashboard, and chunked concurrent file transfers. It supports SQLite or PostgreSQL and S3-compatible storage, and deploys via multi-architecture Docker images. It's licensed CC BY-NC 4.0 (free for non-commercial self-hosting; commercial use requires a separate license), with an optional managed 'Hoodik Cloud' tier.