NordLocker

NordLocker is used to keep sensitive files in end-to-end encrypted 'lockers', both stored locally on your device and synced to its cloud. It comes from Nord Security, the team behind NordVPN and NordPass, and it's less a Dropbox replacement than a digital safe: a place for the documents you'd never want exposed — IDs, contracts, private photos, backups — protected against unauthorised access, theft and ransomware. You drag files in, they're encrypted automatically, and only you hold the key.

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There's a free 3 GB plan to test it. Paid storage is priced from US$14.99/mo for the top 2 TB tier, with a smaller, cheaper tier below it; as with the wider Nord family, first-year promotions discount the opening rate and the price rises at renewal, so it's worth reading the fine print before you sign up. Zero-knowledge encryption is included on every plan, free ones too. For sheer capacity it's not the cheapest here, but you're paying for Nord's security engineering.

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Yes — it's built by Nord Security, the established company behind NordVPN and NordPass, with zero-knowledge end-to-end encryption on every plan: your lockers are encrypted on your device before anything leaves it, using strong modern cryptography. It's a legitimate, audited security vendor with a real track record in the space. The honest context is that the storage product itself is younger and narrower than the big cloud names — deliberately so, since it's designed as a secure vault rather than a full-featured cloud. On security, it's solid.

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Not exactly — they're siblings, not owner and subsidiary. NordLocker and NordVPN are both products of Nord Security, the Lithuanian-founded company that also makes NordPass. So they share one account ecosystem and the same security engineering, but each is a separate app with its own purpose.

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Yes — the free plan includes 3 GB of end-to-end encrypted cloud storage, plus unlimited local-only lockers on your own device, which don't count against that cloud allowance. It's enough for your most sensitive documents, and free users get exactly the same encryption as paying ones. For larger backups you'll need one of the paid tiers, which start from US$14.99/mo, but the free plan is a real, usable vault.

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It's a vault, not a full cloud suite, and that shows: there's no sharing-links ecosystem like Dropbox's, no document editing, no file version history, and web access is more limited than rivals'. The free tier is small at 3 GB, and pricing climbs after the first-year promotion. There's also no Linux client. None of that is really a defect — it's the trade-off for a focused, encryption-first product. Use NordLocker for what it is, a secure store for sensitive files, and it does that job very well.

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