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Stop Paying Rent to Move Your Own Files

You uploaded 2 TB of photos, videos, and backups to the cloud. Life was good — until you wanted to move them somewhere else.

Suddenly, you’re hit with egress fees, per-GB migration charges, and the realization that your cloud provider has been counting on you never leaving. It’s your data. But moving it costs real money — every single time.

AWS charges ~$0.09/GB for egress. That’s $184 just to download 2 TB of your own files. Want to use a SaaS migration tool? That’s another $10–20/month, with transfer caps. Prefer the open-source CLI route? Clear your afternoon — you’ll need it for YAML configs, credential files, and provider-specific quirks.

The trap: cloud providers charge you egress fees, SaaS tools charge subscriptions, and CLI tools cost you hours of setup time

Let’s talk real numbers. Over three years, here’s what you’ll pay using common approaches:

Approach3-Year CostCatch
SaaS Migration Tool~$360Monthly sub + data caps
Per-GB Service~$720+$0.03/GB, billed every transfer
DIY with CLI40+ hoursConfig per provider, no UI, breaks silently
BloberOne paymentUnlimited transfers. Forever.

The subscription model is designed to extract value from you month after month. The per-GB model punishes you for having more data. The CLI path trades money for your time.

Blober breaks the cycle. Pay once. Transfer as much as you want, as many times as you want. No meter running. No renewal emails. No “upgrade to unlock more.”

Cost comparison over 3 years: SaaS tools cost $360, per-GB services cost $720+, DIY CLI costs 40+ hours, Blober costs one single payment

Blober is a desktop app — not a SaaS, not a CLI tool, not a cloud service. It runs on your Mac, Windows, or Linux machine and connects directly to your cloud providers:

  • AWS S3 — buckets and objects, any region
  • Azure Blob Storage — containers and blobs
  • Google Drive — files and folders, including shared drives
  • GoPro Cloud — back up your action footage locally or to any cloud
  • Backblaze B2 — the affordable S3 alternative
  • Dropbox — personal and business accounts
  • Cloudflare R2 — zero-egress object storage
  • Wasabi — hot storage without the cold fees
  • DigitalOcean Spaces — all regions, auto-detected
  • Local Disk — any folder on your machine

Your files never touch a middleman server. Blober streams directly between your machine and the provider APIs. Browse your cloud storage visually, select what you want, pick a destination — done.

If a transfer gets interrupted (bad WiFi, laptop closed, provider hiccup), Blober picks up where it left off. No re-uploading. No duplicate files.

Blober connects 10+ cloud providers in one app: AWS S3, Azure Blob, Google Drive, GoPro Cloud, Backblaze B2, Dropbox, Cloudflare R2, Wasabi, DigitalOcean Spaces, and local disk

Here’s what switching to Blober actually looks like:

Before: You’re juggling browser tabs, CLI sessions, and a spreadsheet tracking which files went where. A SaaS tool emails you that you’ve hit your 1.2 TB monthly cap. You Google “rclone config azure” for the third time.

After: You open Blober. Connect your accounts. Drag from source to destination. Walk away. It just works.

No account required to transfer. No internet needed for local-to-local moves. No data ever leaves your machine unless you’re sending it to a cloud provider you chose.

Before and after comparison: monthly subscriptions, data caps, and files routed through servers vs. one-time payment, unlimited transfers, and 100% local execution with Blober
  • Photographers & videographers moving terabytes of footage from GoPro Cloud or Google Drive to cheaper archival storage
  • Developers & DevOps engineers migrating between S3-compatible providers without writing scripts
  • Small businesses consolidating cloud storage without paying an enterprise migration service
  • Privacy-conscious users who want their files transferred directly, not through a third-party cloud
  • Anyone tired of paying monthly fees to tools that move files you already own

Your data. Your machine. Your rules.

One payment. Unlimited transfers. No expiration.

Download Blober → blober.io