Maestral Archived After Its Developer Ends Maintenance

Overview

• The Maestral project has been archived by its creator and will no longer receive maintenance or updates.
• The developer says he no longer uses Dropbox and has stepped away from the project.
• The existing macOS build continues to work now but will stop functioning once its signing certificates expire.
• Because Maestral is open source the code can be forked, but the project was largely a one‑person effort and a sustained fork is not assured.
• Users must choose between staying with Dropbox’s official client, seeking or creating a community fork, or migrating data to alternatives such as iCloud Drive.