Add a drive

A drive in CloudMount is one configured storage location: your Google Drive account, an S3 bucket, a folder on an SFTP server. rclone calls the same thing a remote.

The wizard

1. Tap or click Add drive.
2. Choose a service. Popular ones are listed first: Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Nextcloud and ownCloud, SFTP, SMB, Amazon S3 and compatible storage, and Backblaze B2. Search for anything else; every rclone backend is there. Scan your network (Android) or On your network (Windows) lists the SMB, WebDAV and SFTP servers that announce themselves on your network, and choosing one fills in its address.
3. Name the drive. The name appears in the Files app or File Explorer. Use letters, numbers, spaces and . _ - + @.
4. Fill in the connection settings. The form is built from rclone’s own description of the backend, so its fields are the same as rclone config asks for, and each backend’s page here lists them with explanations under Options. Settings most people never need are under Advanced options. For S3, choose your provider first; it narrows the options and endpoints to that provider’s. For WebDAV, set the vendor so rclone handles that server’s quirks.
5. Review and save.

Drives using a wrapping backend, such as an encrypted drive, need Pro.

Signing in with your browser

Services that use OAuth, such as Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Box and pCloud, don’t ask for a password. CloudMount opens the service’s sign-in page in your browser instead. Sign in and allow access; the page hands the permission back to CloudMount on your device, which finishes adding the drive.

• The sign-in never passes through a CloudMount server. It goes to rclone running on your device, at http://127.0.0.1:53682.
• If browser sign-in doesn’t work, choose Add with a pasted token instead. Run the rclone authorize command CloudMount shows (Windows can copy it for you) on a computer with rclone and a browser, and paste the token it prints.
• When a sign-in expires or is revoked, the drive shows Sign-in needed (Android) or Sign in again (Windows). Use Reconnect or Sign in again on the drive; its settings are kept.

Shared client IDs

CloudMount signs in with rclone’s built-in OAuth client IDs, which every rclone user shares. Some services rate-limit those, and rclone has announced that its shared Google Drive client ID stops working during 2026. To avoid both, use your own client ID.

Testing the connection

Test connection tries the settings before saving, without writing anything, and explains common failures: a refused connection, an unknown host, a timeout, an untrusted certificate or wrong credentials. It isn’t offered for services that sign in through the browser, which are tested by signing in. Adding a drive whose test failed, or that wasn’t tested, asks first. A drive’s settings can be tested the same way before you save changes.

Questions during setup

A few services ask follow-up questions while being set up, such as a two-factor code for Internxt, or for iCloud the two-factor code or which phone number should receive it by text message. CloudMount shows these in a dialog. If a service needs an interactive step the app can’t show, set the drive up with rclone on a computer and import it.

Changing a drive later

• Edit connection (Android) or Drive settings (Windows) reopens the form. Password fields stay empty; leave them blank to keep the current value.
• Rename changes the drive’s name, and on Windows its folder too.
• Delete or Remove removes the drive from CloudMount. Files on the storage itself aren’t touched.

On Android, editing, renaming or deleting a drive resets other apps’ saved access to its folders. See When other apps lose access.