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Northlight Vault

All your cloud storage.
One place.

Browse files across Google Drive, OneDrive, and Dropbox in a single desktop app — without switching tabs, signing in and out, or losing track of where anything lives. Free during early access.

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Free during early access · Windows only

Northlight Vault application icon

What it does

One view, three services

Google Drive, OneDrive, and Dropbox — all visible in a single interface. Browse folders, find files, and open them without switching apps or accounts.

Read-only by design

Vault is a browser, not an editor. It finds and opens your files — it doesn't move, rename, or delete anything. Your files stay exactly where they are.

Desktop, not browser

A proper Windows desktop application. Open it from your taskbar. No browser tab to lose, no sign-in prompt every session. It's just there when you need it.

See it in action

Northlight Vault showing the connected accounts sidebar with Google Drive, OneDrive, and Dropbox all linked as Elizabeth Lemoine (elizabeth@bynorthlight.ca), with the Documents folder selected and showing empty Northlight Vault showing the Documents folder with files listed including PDFs, Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, and spreadsheets from connected cloud accounts Northlight Vault showing the Northlight Projects subfolder inside Documents, containing subfolders and project files from connected cloud accounts Northlight Vault Help menu open showing options including View Changelog, Check for Updates, About Northlight Vault, and version number v1.0.0, with a welcome banner visible

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Supported cloud services

Google Drive

My Drive, Shared drives, Shared with me

OneDrive

Personal and Microsoft 365

Dropbox

Personal and Business accounts

Full transparency

What Vault does

  • Browse files and folders across all connected accounts
  • Open files in their native app or in your browser
  • Search across services by filename
  • Stay signed in between sessions

What Vault doesn't do

  • Move, rename, or delete your files
  • Store or sync files locally
  • Upload or edit documents
  • Share files or manage permissions

Frequently asked questions about Northlight Vault

Yes. Vault is free during early access. We'll be transparent about pricing if that changes — and early access users will hear first.
Windows only, currently. macOS support is on the roadmap but we're not committing to a timeline. If macOS matters to you, let us know — it helps us prioritise.
No. Vault connects to your cloud accounts using their official authentication (OAuth). Your login credentials are never stored by Vault — authentication happens directly through Google, Microsoft, or Dropbox. Files are not downloaded or cached locally.
No. Vault is read-only by design. It can browse and open files, nothing else. We made this an explicit design decision — not a missing feature.
Vault is built by Northlight Advisory Services — a Canadian strategy, advisory, and AI firm. It started as a tool we built for ourselves and decided was worth sharing. You can learn more at bynorthlight.ca.
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Free during early access. No account required beyond your existing cloud services.

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Windows · Free during early access