See how Shade stacks up against Resilio Sync across real-time access, search, and sharing.
Key takeaways
Shade is designed for media. Resilio isn't.
Shade allows users to work with large media and files, access them in real time, and search and preview them. Resilio only offers real-time syncing but does not provide real-time video playback.
Shade takes 5 minutes to set up.
Shade is designed to be completely easy to set up—it doesn’t require large amounts of configuration and also works with your storage, whether in the cloud (BYOS) or locally.
Built for everyone on the team, not just IT.
Your IT managers are not the only ones using the application. Shade is a system built from the ground up to make every party happy and easy to use.
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Use Something that Scales with Your Team
Resilio is difficult to maintain. Not only does it have large setup constraints and require configuring each computer to make it work, but it does not offer the full capabilities that every party (IT managers, creative directors, editors) in your team needs. Your creative director is not going to care about the P2P sync feature—he needs the asset that he wants to find.
Shade bridges the gap between a technically mature solution and a user experience designed for creative tools and teams to work with their files, find exactly what they need, and share files without having to bother IT. Shade offers complete feature parity to Resilio when it comes to file syncing and virtual mounting—you can work as if you’re in the same room. Shade also provides AI search, external file sharing, and more.
Multimodal AI search for your files.
Shade is designed from the ground up to be the most super-powered search engine for multimodal assets. We believe that file systems are designed to help us access our files, search, and share them—that is why we built Shade to be able to search and share petabytes of files. So Shade solves the whole gamut—instead of using Resilio along with a separate DAM, search, or spreadsheet tool, use Shade to help resolve all of your search, access, and sharing needs.
Client delivery matters.
Delivering items to your clients is always a chance to wow them. Resilio is fundamentally an internally facing tool with an outdated UI. Shade is designed to be used across the team internally and externally. With Shade-published links, you can quickly deliver the last mile to clients, ask for feedback, and more. External collaborators also receive great experiences via ShadeFS’s mounting and web sharing.
When to use Resilio Sync over Shade
Shade takes the best of Resilio Sync, the ease of Dropbox, and our AI search and wraps that into one product. Resilio Sync is good if you already have that infrastructure set up across all your computers and know it will be used internally. Otherwise - choose a modern alternative like Shade.
