[treetalker]

How would one go about switching away from Dropbox to something else that would be free, private, and macOS/iOS compatible?

[thejohnconway]

Free? How are the servers going to run?

Syncthing is probably the closest bet. It doesn’t require servers, so it can be free. But it isn’t really a full Dropbox replacement.

[treetalker]

Yes, that was boneheaded of me (was just waking up when I wrote that). I should have written "FOSS".

[ffin]

The only real way to do this “for free” that I can think of would be to self-host on an old laptop. Unless you meant free as in open source.

[layer8]

5GB of iCloud storage is free, and if you turn on Advanced Data Protection, it’s end-to-end-encrypted: https://support.apple.com/en-us/108756