Driveflow

Driveflow downloads Google Drive folders at full speed. You sign in, pick a folder, and get the files as they are. No 2GB zip-splitting, no stitching anything back together. You can find it at usedriveflow.app.

Why I built this

I needed to transfer terabytes of video files to my brother. I initially thought I could upload them to Google Drive and he could download them from there. He then told me he hates using Google Drive for this because it splits large folders into multiple zip files capped at 2GB, which is painful to stitch back together manually.

Downloads

• drive-download-20260721T181813Z-1-001.zip

  1,615 KB/s - 96.2 MB of 2.0 GB, 16 hours left

• drive-download-20260721T181813Z-1-002.zip

  1,598 KB/s - 95.8 MB of 2.0 GB, 17 hours left

• drive-download-20260721T181813Z-1-003.zip

  1,642 KB/s - 95.4 MB of 1.9 GB, 18 hours left

• drive-download-20260721T181813Z-1-004.zip

  1,587 KB/s - 96.0 MB of 2.0 GB, 19 hours left

My regular approach would've been to upload everything to Google Cloud Storage and send him a terminal command to download it with the Google Cloud CLI, but this much data egress would've cost me $100..... no thank you.

After googling for the best solution, I came across rclone, which can download folders at full speed without creating any zip files. This would've required setting up rclone on my brother's laptop, which is a bit annoying to do for a non-dev configured laptop. Then I thought, why not vibe-code an app with proper Google auth so he can choose the folder from Google Drive and just download it?

Driveflow

Really large files

Saving to /Volumes/Archive

Speed

186 MB/s

Copied

90 GB of 1.1 TB

Left

49 min

• Really large folder428 GBDone
• Really large folder214 GB
• Really large files640 GB

This worked perfectly and reminded me that.... you can just build things.