Dokan is described as 'When you want to create a new file system on Windows, for example to improve FAT or NTFS, you need to develop a file system driver. Developing a device driver that works in kernel mode on windows is extremely difficult' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are seven alternatives to Dokan for Windows, Linux, Mac and BSD. The best Dokan alternative is ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Dokan are WinFsp, macFUSE, BeeGFS and Lustre.
ImDisk is a virtual disk driver for Windows NT through Windows 10. It can create virtual hard disk, RAM Disk, floppy or CD/DVD drives using image files or system memory.
WinFsp, Windows File System Proxy, is a set of software components for Windows computers that allows the creation of user mode file systems. In this sense it is similar to FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace), which provides the same functionality on UNIX-like computers.
BeeGFS (formerly FhGFS) is a parallel cluster file system, developed with a strong focus on performance and designed for very easy installation and management.
CBFS Connect allows you to present any data source as a fully-featured Windows filesystem—be it database records, local or remote files, dynamically-generated content, or anything in-between. Without writing a single line of driver code, you'll be able to expose your data as...
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ImDisk is a virtual storage driver. Dokan is a tool for developers to create user space storage drivers. One is like a Uber car that comes with a driver already, the other is like just the car.