pCloud
The Swiss-based cloud drive with a lifetime-plan following.
Live-tested Verified against a live server
What Mountit does with it
- Mount
- Read and write, in Finder
- Offline cache
- Metadata cache, read-ahead and write-back — the same volume stack as every other service
- Encryption layer
- Available on this connection: client-side, rclone-compatible crypt over the data before it leaves your Mac
- Editions
- Both. Either edition mounts it through File Provider, so it appears in Finder — and, on Standard, in the Files app on iPad and Vision Pro
The engineering ledger lists pCloud among the services run against a
real server. Which of those two things it says is read out of docs/BACKEND-COVERAGE.md in the app repository when this site is
built, not typed here — so the level above moves when the ledger does, and the
build stops rather than leave the paragraph above it saying something else.
The conformance record
Covered by its own live suite. No conformance lane runs against this service; a live test suite of its own in the app repository covers it instead. Every service’s standing, side by side.
pCloud questions
Can Mountit mount pCloud?
Yes — pCloud is one of the 38 services selectable in the app. It mounts read-write, with the same cache, read-ahead and write-back as every other service.
What we will not do is claim it works before it does: this page carries the ledger’s evidence level for pCloud, and it changes the day the evidence does.
Which edition do I need?
Either — this service is in both editions. The difference is the surrounding app, not the protocol: Mountit Pro is the unsandboxed build with the block protocols; Standard is the Mac App Store build, and on iPad and Vision Pro every service appears in the Files app. Both mount this service through File Provider.
What is special about the EU region?
pCloud operates a separate EU endpoint, which refuses the password-in-a-query-parameter pattern the generic client used — one reason Mountit carries its own implementation. Sign-in uses digest authentication, and two-factor delivery by SMS, push or recovery code is supported per connection.