Syncthing-Fork

Nickola Hristov

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/nel0x/syncthing-android-gplay

Source code: https://github.com/nel0x/syncthing-android-gplay

How Syncthing writes to external SD card: https://github.com/nel0x/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/nel0x/syncthing-android-gplay/issues

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Ratings and reviews

Newly started using this app for syncing my Obsidian vaults on phone and computer. I like this app so far. Intuitive despite a learning curve, efficient and quiet useful. I like the fact that it doesn't send my data via cloud, but directly between the devices. It has provided an excellent alternative to obsidian sync for anyone who loves obsidian but can't afford to pay for the sync. I hope the app continues to work well. Thank you to the dedicated team behind this thoughtful app.

UPDATE: As of v1.29.4.0 the app no longer crashes randomly. Upgraded to 5 stars since this is essential to keeping my Obsidian vaults synced across all devices. ------ ORIGINAL: Great app and does its job flawlessly. However it keeps crashing pretty much daily. Device is Pixel 8. I can provide more details if necessary.

idk if I'm just dumb, but I cannot set a custom folder location for a folder on my phone and checking file permissions for the app leads me to notice that there isn't even a file or storage permissions that is asked for, meaning that it never has a chance to bring up the system file chooser dialog so it automatically defaults to storing everything under storage emulated with the default folder ID, which is a completely different behavior than what I needed this app to do. Pixel 9 Pro XL.

What’s new

★ Syncthing v1.29.4.0

Improved stability by addressing a major crash issue on Android 15.