Syncthing-Fork vs Syncthing-Lite
Side-by-side comparison of two open source alternatives
Syncthing-Fork
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. * "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. Please seek help on the forum and/or social media apps first before creating issues on the tracker. Website: https://github.com/researchxxl/syncthing-android Source code: https://github.com/researchxxl/syncthing-android How Syncthing writes to external SD card: https://github.com/researchxxl/syncthing-android/blob/main/wiki/SD-card-write-access.md Wiki, FAQ and helpful articles: https://github.com/researchxxl/syncthing-android/tree/main/wiki#readme Issues: https://github.com/researchxxl/syncthing-android/issues Please help with the Translation: https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/syncthing-fork/app/
Syncthing-Lite
⚡ Revival of the app which was abandoned years ago. ✅ Safety warning: Please always ensure that you have backed up your data by other means and that this backup is up to date before using this app. The app is still in early development. ⚠️ We assume no liability for data corruption or loss, although we make every effort to deliver quality. This is an Android app which you can use as a client to access Syncthing shares offered by remote devices. It works similar to file sharing apps accessing their server. This is a client-oriented implementation, designed to work online by downloading and uploading files from an active device on the network instead of synchronizing a local copy of the entire folder. Due to that, you will see a sync progress of 0% at other devices which is expected. This is useful for devices where you don't want to download the entire contents of a shared folder. For example, mobile devices with limited storage available where you like to access a syncthing shared folder. This is quite different from the way the Syncthing-Fork app works. Please note that for technical reasons you can't reconnect via relay connection for some minutes after the app was closed. This may happen due to removing from the recent apps list, force close or an interrupted connection to remote device. This constraint does not apply for connections directly established through the local network. Source code: https://github.com/researchxxl/syncthing-lite
| Feature | Syncthing-Fork | Syncthing-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| License | MPL-2.0 | MPL-2.0 |
| Install sources | F-DroidGitHub | F-DroidGitHub |
| Categories | Cloud StorageBrowser | Cloud StorageBrowser |
| Features | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking |
| Platforms | Android | Android |
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