{"id":52543,"date":"2026-07-07T15:52:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=52543"},"modified":"2026-07-07T15:52:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:52:47","slug":"sunsetting-maestral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/07\/sunsetting-maestral\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunsetting Maestral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maestral.app\/\">Sam Schott<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/maestral.app\/\">\n<p>As of June 2026, Maestral is no longer actively maintained. The current version will continue to work until certificates expire.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2026\/07\/06\/maestral-retired\">John Gruber<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@daringfireball\/116874136968141533\">Mastodon<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2026\/07\/06\/maestral-retired\">\n<p>I don&rsquo;t know when these certificates are expiring. And I don&rsquo;t know what I&rsquo;m going to do when they do. I might try moving everything from my Dropbox account to iCloud Drive. That certainly seems worth trying before I resort to going back to Dropbox&rsquo;s own monstrosity of a Mac client.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>In theory, because Maestral is open source, someone could fork it and keep it going.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/maestral-archived\/\">Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/maestral-archived\/\">\n<p>I use Dropbox only for some relatively basic but necessary things, like hosting PDFs for this very website, which is why Maestral has been the perfect client for me. It is a testament to the effect of a good third-party app that I have stuck with Dropbox despite its corporate-focused strategy pivot.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I&rsquo;ve switched to iCloud Drive, which seems better, but not better than Old Dropbox.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/03\/when-dropbox-spawns-a-million-folders\/\">When Dropbox Spawns a Million Folders<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/19\/backblaze-no-longer-backs-up-dropbox\/\">Backblaze No Longer Backs Up Dropbox<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/14\/update-on-cloud-file-provider-extensions\/\">Update on Cloud File Provider Extensions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/27\/dropbox-on-ventura\/\">Dropbox on Ventura<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/23\/dropbox-and-maestral\/\">Dropbox and Maestral<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Schott: As of June 2026, Maestral is no longer actively maintained. The current version will continue to work until certificates expire. Via John Gruber (Mastodon): I don&rsquo;t know when these certificates are expiring. And I don&rsquo;t know what I&rsquo;m going to do when they do. I might try moving everything from my Dropbox account [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-07-07T19:52:51Z","apple_news_api_id":"21c61e6f-0856-48f5-819e-f2636181ca96","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-07-07T19:52:51Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AIcYebwhWSPWBnvJjYYHKlg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[47,2164,30,32,2742,2141,74,1451],"class_list":["post-52543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-dropbox","tag-file-provider-extensions","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-tahoe-26","tag-maestral","tag-opensource","tag-sunset"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52544,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52543\/revisions\/52544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}