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Egnyte vs ShareFile comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 29, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Egnyte
Ranking in Content Collaboration Platforms
15th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
ShareFile
Ranking in Content Collaboration Platforms
6th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.8
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
eSignature (Electronic Signature) (4th), Cloud Data Exchange Services (3rd)
 

Q&A Highlights

Sabre604 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 30, 2021
 

Featured Reviews

Jonathan Songoni - PeerSpot reviewer
A great solution for uploading files with good protection and security features
We use this solution to upload our files according to our activities for the project. All the files we create are uploaded or saved on Egnyte Connect to protect and securitize them Egnyte Connect is a great application to save files. All files are secure and available. If we are connected, we can…
David Donaldson - PeerSpot reviewer
Flexible plans, stable, and scalable
I used another solution at the same time, which was far worse. The American company I worked for used a similar file-sharing solution called LeapFile, a secure file transfer service. Personally, I found Citrix ShareFile to be much better than LeapFile, which was quite clunky. I later used a solution called Egnyte, which my company used as its main file transfer solution, though I'm not sure if it's still in use. The company moved to Egnyte because it is more of an enterprise-level solution. Egnyte was expensive, but it worked. I believe Citrix ShareFile is aimed at smaller to medium-sized organizations, making it a more appropriate solution than Egnyte due to its pricing.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It is scalable and stable."
"From a small firm perspective, Egnyte Connect is simple, it is easy to get users up and running the same day, and I have nothing negative to say about the software. I can't speak to how Egnyte Connect would operate in a midsize company or even a large Fortune 500 company, but, from our perspective as a small business, it is fantastic."
"Egnyte Connect is a great application to save files."
"It is a good storage solution."
"You can really do a lot of cool things with it in terms of being able to co-author and share documents with users that are not in your organization."
"It's easy to move files around, even to, for example, SharePoint."
"It provides a way to granularly choose which folders from the internet you want to sync to your computer. It is really useful for people who are working on teams that are working with files that are frequently changing. You can go in and pretty clearly see what changes have been made. It gives you a constant feed."
"The solution is scalable."
"The Enterprise Dropbox solution is highly integrated with Microsoft's Office 365 and Azure products."
"This provides us with a secure way of sending tax returns without having to use passwords."
"The solution would query the Active Directory, and if new accounts were identified, Citrix ShareFile would add them automatically."
"It's user-friendly for end users."
"Easy to manage and fully secure."
"Citrix has a very good file auditing features and security features."
"ShareFile gives you all of the features of cloud providers, but in an on-premises solution."
 

Cons

"You cannot delete a file when you have uploaded it in error."
"Before, when we were starting to use Egnyte, we were struggling with a lot of bugs with Egnyte desktop sync."
"If this solution had a better ability to search, that would be helpful. In addition, if there was an ability to collaborate, that would also be a benefit. At present, the vision control is had because if someone gets out of it, it locks. And, whoever saves last overrides everyone's work."
"It would be nice to see an integration of using an active directory to validate and authenticate users on our end as well as on the client user's end."
"The issue of my authorization token expiring pretty quickly was pretty annoying. On pretty much every update, it would expire on every computer. On every computer update, at the first opportunity, it would expire. When my computer got updated or the authorization got cut, my saved drives would get messed up. So, I had to reconnect them all. I was never able to set up a useful drive system with my local computer with Egnyte Connect. It would be a big improvement if there was a cached system so that when it loses connection, it can still save what kind of connections were set up, and when it reconnects, it repopulates all those. I don't know if that's even possible, but that's the feature I'd want."
"As of right now, I have everything that I and my team need."
"Some of our customers are facing issues if they've deployed in hybrid mode."
"DLP features are lacking and required because, especially with everyone working from home, security is now paramount when the data is on BYOD devices."
"The configuration on the mobile devices is a little clunky, in terms of setting up the application."
"There are sometimes scalability issues after updates."
"The user interface is not very intuitive."
"Everything they have should be integrated into one item."
"My only issue with this solution is the cost, which should be improved."
"They should integrate the solution with more email services."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I do not have experience with the pricing of this solution."
"As far as I understand, licenses are associated with the Egnyte platform. There aren't any licenses associated with Egnyte Connect."
"I give the cost of the solution a five out of five."
"If you are already a Citrix customer, I recommend having the Platinum licensing level, as it provides licensing for a number of various features that all integrate together."
"Citrix has a very good file auditing features and security features."
"You have to work hard in order to get the suitable licenses."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
25%
Computer Software Company
10%
Construction Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Computer Software Company
14%
Legal Firm
10%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

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Citrix RightSignature, Citrix ShareFile
 

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Sample Customers

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