Open and decentralized file synchronization - A Wrapper for Syncthing
4.36·1,881 reviews·500,000+ downloads
About Syncthing-Fork
Syncthing-Fork is a productivity app developed by nel0x.
Download Statistics
Syncthing-Fork has been downloaded 500 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 29 thousand times.
User Ratings
Syncthing-Fork is rated 4.36 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 1.9 thousand ratings.
App Information
Syncthing-Fork is FREE to download. The APK download size is 30.05 MB. The latest version available is 2.0.11.1. The last update was on November 8, 2025.
Technical Requirements
Syncthing-Fork requires Android 5.0+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play January 2019.
Description
🚀 Major Upgrade to Syncthing Version 2
⚠️ Important: After installing this update, do not close or force-stop the app on first launch! It will perform a one-time database migration that may take some time depending on the size of your setup. Interrupting this process can damage your configuration or data.
Before upgrading: Please create a full backup of your data and export the app's configuration.
This update represents a major version change from v1.30.0.3 to v2.0.9 of Syncthing-Fork. The internal database structure and configuration handling have been significantly updated.
To read more about the v2 milestone, please visit: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/releases/tag/v2.0.9
If you prefer to remain on v1 (not recommended), please switch to the builds available on GitHub at: https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android/releases
Disclaimer: This upgrade is provided as is without any warranty. The developer cannot be held responsible for any data loss or configuration issues resulting from this update.
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.
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Aside from the occasional file conflict from files that haven't changed, it works great. I don't believe the issue is unique to Android.
★★★★☆Adam Mills· Jun 26, 2026
I can hardly complain at all, it works so well when it works which is 99 percent of the time for me. I find it eats the majority of my battery on my phone, even on days of heavy streaming service usage, so -1 star there. This can be managed with timed syncs but if I edit my synced folder with that setting you have to disable it to get a manual sync to other devices immediately. I can only imagine this battery usage issue is because there is no low-cost way to scan for edited files on Android
★★★★★A D· Feb 24, 2026
Perfect with Obsidian.md. It took me a bit of tutorial work to get the android, iOS and Windows versions of Obsidian talking to each other, but this fork of Sync thing made it possible. Now I can play my solo RPGs across whatever device I've got on me for maximum convenience.
★☆☆☆☆eueug99· Jan 17, 2026
Deleted all other folder files on the picked directory without warnings, did not create a subfolder for it
★☆☆☆☆Jonathan Campbell· Jun 1, 2026
Unfortunately it's unusable with how limited its view of the Android directory it has for what I need. Was trying to use to sync a folder in my Termux directory, but it can't find it like Total Commander file manager can.
★☆☆☆☆Neil Mason· Oct 18, 2025
Unless you have a technical background, don't use this. You'll end up deleting all of your files from all devices. It's unreliable, clunky to set up, and the UI just isn't great. I'm surprised there's not a better version of this. Shame as it has a lot of potential, but it seems the default design is to let the app just remove all of your files with no versioning turned on by default. Be warned, great risk of losing all your files.
★★☆☆☆Gustav· Feb 18, 2026
Very glitchy. Great idea but it says "out of sync" when it works perfectly, and it says "up to date" when it's not. I display conflicts when there are no conflicts, and it says nothing when the app is broken.
★☆☆☆☆Jimz Phone· Jun 25, 2026
Complete trash. I've tried everything trying to sync it with another device and nothing happened except battery drain. It's total trash with no instructions.
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