Syncthing-Fork

4.4
534 reviews
10K+
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Everyone
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About this app

This is a fork of the Syncthing-Android wrapper for Syncthing that brings major enhancements like:
* Folder, device and overall sync progress can easily be read off the UI.
* "Syncthing Camera" - an optional feature (with optional permission to use the camera) where you can take pictures with your friend, partner, ... on two phones into one shared and private Syncthing folder. No cloud involved. - FEATURE CURRENTLY IN BETA STAGE -
* "Sync every hour" to save even more battery
* Individual sync conditions can be applied per device and per folder
* Recent changes UI, click to open files.
* Changes to folder and device config can be made regardless if Syncthing is running or not
* UI explains why syncthing is running or not.
* "Battery eater" problem is fixed.
* Discover other Syncthing devices on the same network and easily add them.
* Supports two-way synchronization on external SD card since Android 11.

Syncthing-Fork for Android is a wrapper for Syncthing that provides an Android UI instead of Syncthing's built-in Web UI. Syncthing replaces proprietary sync and cloud services with something open, trustworthy and decentralized. Your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it is stored, if it is shared with some third party and how it's transmitted over the Internet.

Goals of the fork:
* Develop and try out enhancements together with the community.
* Release the wrapper more frequently to identify and fix bugs caused by changes in the syncthing submodule
* Make enhancements configurable in the UI, users should be able to turn them on and off

Comparison between upstream and fork at the time of writing this:
* Both contain the syncthing binary built from the official source at GitHub
* Syncing functionality and reliability depends on the syncthing binary submodule version.
* Fork gets along with upstream and sometimes they pick up my improvements.
* Strategy and release frequency is different
* Only the wrapper containing the Android UI is addressed by the fork.

Website: https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android

Source code: https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android

How Syncthing writes to external SD card: https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android/blob/master/wiki/SD-card-write-access.md

Wiki, FAQ and helpful articles: https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android/wiki

Issues: https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android/issues

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Updated on
Mar 8, 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Files and docs
This app may collect these data types
App info and performance
Data is encrypted in transit
Data can’t be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.4
497 reviews
Den Noyb
February 11, 2024
Absolutely fabulous app! I just joined the SyncThing experience and am quite impressed. I am a software engineer with >40 years experience and amazed at the quality of the app and responsiveness of the author for this *free* software. I like this fork because it provides more info on the status of both sides. Keep up the great work!!
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Catfriend1
February 21, 2024
:-)
D H (DH)
September 2, 2023
Generally good app for keeping files updated from phone to Linux desktop to NAS and back again. Seems to constantly claim to be 138 bytes short of complete sync to all peers. Have tried creating and editing small text files, putting in some large audio files, etc. Sync happens as expected, and other side gets the update correctly, but GUI in local app is stuck 138B short. Feature request: trigger syncthing active by certain vpn (wireguard) profile active. Thanks!
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Catfriend1
September 7, 2023
:-)
A Google user
November 25, 2019
Great free and open source solution! Takes some knowledge to set up, but in the end, it does everything I need! I'd love to see a notification feature, such that if a connection hasn't been made in xx hr/days, I will be notified to fix the issue. Lost some data recently when my SD card corrupted and I didn't realize syncthing service hadn't been running on my server.
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Catfriend1
November 25, 2019
Hi, thank you for your feedback. Please continue at https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android/issues/569 (Ticket)

What's new

* Syncthing v1.27.4

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