Productivity/File Sync

Syncthing

Continuous, encrypted peer-to-peer file sync between your own devices — no server or cloud account in the loop.

Activity score (0-100) — weighted from the 4 sub-scores below. Calculated automatically from the GitHub API, refreshed weekly.

Community

100

Development

100

Maintenance

Risk

86,662 GitHub stars Last commit: 1 days ago Last release: 12 days ago Open issues: 394 License: MPL-2.0

Hardware

RAM minimum128 MB

RAM recommended512 MB

CPU idlenear 0%

CPU recommended1 vCPU

ARM supportFull

Access & auth

Needs reverse proxy✗ No

OIDC support✗ No

LDAP support✗ No

Multi-user✗ No

Mobile appBoth

Operations

MaturityStable

Maintenance burdenLow

Setup difficultyMedium

Backup methodN/A — sync tool, not versioned backup. Pair with Restic/Duplicati for real backups.

Leaving the cloud

Migration difficultyEasy

Replaces

DropboxGoogle Drive (sync client)Resilio Sync

Relationships

Install via

BinaryDocker ComposeNative

Recommended backup

Native/Manual

Our notes

Genuinely decentralized — no central server to run or trust; devices sync directly, or via a relay if they can't reach each other. The trade-off is it's sync, not backup: delete a file on one device and it deletes everywhere. Official Android app is solid; iOS support is third-party and paid (Möbius Sync) or rougher (Syncthing-iOS).