Software Alternatives & Reviews

Paragon ExtFS VS WinFsp

Compare Paragon ExtFS VS WinFsp and see what are their differences

Paragon ExtFS logo Paragon ExtFS

Provides MacOS and Windows machines native access to the Linux OS ext file system family.

WinFsp logo WinFsp

WinFsp, Windows File System Proxy, is a set of software components for Windows computers that...
  • Paragon ExtFS Landing page
    Landing page //
    2021-10-15
  • WinFsp Landing page
    Landing page //
    2021-10-08

Paragon ExtFS videos

Paragon ExtFS for UEFI - mounting ExtFS volume in UEFI environment with Paragon UFSD SDK for UEFI.

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Paragon ExtFS and WinFsp)
Cloud Storage
46 46%
54% 54
CD Image Creator
100 100%
0% 0
FTP Client
0 0%
100% 100
DVD Image Creator
100 100%
0% 0

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, WinFsp seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 1 time since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Paragon ExtFS mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Paragon ExtFS yet. Tracking of Paragon ExtFS recommendations started around Mar 2021.

WinFsp mentions (1)

  • EAC Exact Audio Copy Crashes upon accessing Windows filesystem - related to Dokany, Cryptomator, .Net, and WinFSP
    When WinFSP (often installed for Rclone) is installed opening any filesystem dialog from EAC will immediately crash the program (#162). To fix the issue either uninstall WinFSP or run fix162.bat. Source: about 1 year ago

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Paragon ExtFS and WinFsp, you can also consider the following products

DiskInternals Linux Reader - A freeware tool for extracting files from Ext2/Ext3/Ext4, hfs and ReiserFS partitions in Windows

WinSCP - WinSCP is an open source free SFTP client and FTP client for Windows.

HFSExplorer - HFSExplorer is an application that can read Mac-formatted hard disks and disk images. It can read the file systems HFS (Mac OS Standard), HFS+ (Mac OS Extended) and HFSX (Mac OS Extended with case sensitive file names).

Dokan - User mode file system library for windows with FUSE Wrapper

Linux File Systems for Windows - Plug hard disk with ExtFS/Btrfs/XFS partitions and work with media on Windows.

sshfs - This is a filesystem client based on the SSH File Transfer Protocol.