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syncthing-android

Syncthing-Fork - A Syncthing Wrapper for Android.

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Syncthing-Fork - A Syncthing Wrapper for Android.

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It's been working very well for me, I completely replaced Dropbox, and on the VPS/phones [0] as well. The only slow bit I know of is when it's initially syncing too many files…

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bxparks·Dec 8, 2025
[Passed my edit window, so replying to self] Looks like the original repo of syncthing-android, (https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android), which was maintained by @Catfriend1, now redirects to the one maintained by @researchxxl (https://github.com/researchxxl/syncthing-android). The problem seems to be that no one in the syncthing community knows who @researchxxl is. The account was created only 3 weeks ago. There was no communication about how the transfer took place. Was the transfer actually authorized? Did @Catfriend1 get hacked? People are worried about a backdoor hijack attack similar to the XZ libary. There's a long discussion at https://forum.syncthing.net/t/does-anyone-know-why-syncthing.... It is too long and complex for me to follow. (I tried to get an LLM to summarize that thread for me, but the output was not helpful.
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) It is unclear what sycnthing-android users are supposed to do right now. I am staying at version 1.30.0.4 until things become more clear.
In Syncthing-Android have had a change of owner/maintainer
justsomehnguy·Nov 18, 2025
Thanks for the heads-up! For now it looks like the original developer of the fork [0] decided to retire their efforts including their whole GitHub account. User nel0x [1] is communicating with the new repo owner. https://github.com/researchxxl/syncthing-android/issues/16 >> Hi @researchxxl, I initially thought this might be Catfriend1’s new account, but apparently that’s not the case. >> That's one of the biggest challenges I think for getting started. It's not about if we are allowed to, but if you don't already have Catfriends1 key, we probably won't have any way of obtaining it :/ >> i got the key when the repo was transferred to me. >> Catfriend was on the lookout for a successor and I already knew him from another OSS project they did a while ago. we agreed and I was asked to create a new account after I got keys and creds to their o
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riginal account. it turned out to be a bad idea to reuse their name so I created a new one. [0] https://github.com/Catfriend1/ [1] https://forum.syncthing.net/t/does-anyone-know-why-syncthing...
In PSA syncthing-fork has changed owners
codethief·Sep 9, 2025
It used to work very reliably for many years and I used it for pretty much everything (photos, ebooks, notes, Signal backups, …). However, last fall it simply stopped syncing (traffic at 0 B/s) in 90% of the cases, no matter the file size, even though my devices see each other and Syncthing recognizes that files are out of sync. I have already reset and reinstalled Syncthing various times – no idea what's going on. My gut feeling says that it's the Android client[0], but I'll have to find the time to look into this more closely. [0]: https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android
In Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management
rmadriz·Jul 20, 2025
Others have already mentioned Syncthing[^1]. Here's what I'm doing on a budget since I don't have a homeserver/NAS or anything like that. First you need to choose a central device where you're going to send all of the important stuff from other devices like smartphones, laptops, etc. Then you need to setup Syncthing, which works on linux, macos, windows and others. For android there's Syncthing-fork[^2] but for iOS idk. Setup the folders you want to backup on each device, for android, the folders I recommend to backup are DCIM, documents, downloads. For the most part, everything you care about will be there. But I setup a few others like Android/media/WhatsApp/Media to save all photos shared on chats. Then on this central device that's receiving everything from others, that's where you do the "real" backups. I my case, I'm doing backups t
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o a external HDD, and also to a cloud provider with restic[^3]. I highly recommend restic, genuinely great software for backups. It is incremental (like BTRFS snapshots), has backends for a bunch of providers, including any S3 compatible storage and if combined with rclone, you have access to virtually any provider. It is encrypted, and because of how it was built, can you still search/navigate your remote snapshots without having to download the entire snapshot (borg[^4] also does this), the most important aspect of this is that you can restore individual folders/files. And this crucial because most providers for cloud storage will charge you more depending on how much bandwidth you have used. I have already needed to restore files and folders from my remote backups in multiple occasions and it works beautifully. [^1]: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing [^2]: https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android [^3]: https://github.com/restic/restic [^4]: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg
In Make Your Own Backup System – Part 1: Strategy Before Scripts
remram·May 19, 2025
SyncThing has some gotchas when it comes to sync, for example I've had files reappear when I edit them on one device and move them on another. It also seems to create "sync-conflict" files when there is no conflict at all (no modification on one side). I'd also quite like to be able to see the history of my notes sometimes... I also had this nice surprise literally today, all my synced folders stopped working and had to be re-added: https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android/issues/1430 But overall it has worked well, I am using it between 4 devices.
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