My use case was probably simpler than some peoples use of syncthing as I just use it for backing up photos/messages/settings and dont need it to be instant.
My only issue with FolderSync is that its proprietary but its the only option i found that worked well. The various rclone frontends that exist also didnt work nicely with the webdav server I use so I settled on it, its very polished so I dont mind too much.
10 euros for an Android license for or $28 (yes they use two currencies on one page) for a desktop license. The free ad supported version on the play store has over a million downloads.
[Edit: The GitHub repos are called "syncthing-android". The Android apps are called "Syncthing-Fork" or "Syncthing-Fork Wrapper", which adds to the confusion.]
If I recall, there used to be a syncthing-android app on Google PlayStore. That was discontinued by @imsodin in Oct 2024 (https://forum.syncthing.net/t/discontinuing-syncthing-androi...).
There was a version of sycnthing-android on F-Droid. I don't remember who maintained that. I have version 1.30.0.4 installed. But I cannot find any information about that version anymore.
The current version on F-Droid is 2.0.12.1. That seems to be maintained by a fellow named @researchxxl. Apparently @researchxxl claims to have inherited the source code and signing keys from a person named @Catfriend1 (Not sure who that is, the maintainer of version 1.30.0.4?)
There is another fellow named @nel0x who seems to be maintaining a different version of synchthing-android? (Edit: Here it is, https://github.com/nel0x/syncthing-android, which says that it is a fork of the one maintained by @Catfriend1).
Can confirm same case here. App was installed from f-droid, no longer linked to the store.
I wish this would be made clear and have the option given on startup. Many use cases only need local discovery, maybe throw a VPN in there if you want to roam networks.
embedding-shape•2h ago
sevg•1h ago
I thought this comment was strange at the end of Catfriend1’s post:
> I’ll review the progress from time to time and if I find anything malicious going on, I’ll let you know here.
That’s absolutely not something you say when you trust the person you’re handing things over to :s
sneak•1h ago
sevg•1h ago
bgbntty2•1h ago
Trust is not transitive, nor should it be. We (the users) trust the previous maintainer. They trust the new one. We don't (naturally). The old maintainer says they'll review the new one's work, so we'll have trust the old maintainer (mostly).
Not that the whole trust system can't improve in various ways in general. But for now we have to trust someone.
sevg•59m ago
The statement didn’t seem reassuring.
It’d have been reassuring to hear something like “This person has been a committer for X period, and has demonstrated Y and Z.”
> They trust the new one.
Well my point is it doesn’t sound like they actually do trust the new maintainer. Maybe just poor choice of words, but it didn’t fill me with confidence.
altairprime•35m ago
I suspect a lot of folks would be horrified at how typical the former maintainer’s approach to trust is in actual reality. It ends up being necessary because there are maybe a single digit number of people in the world who are willing to commit to long-term project maintenance (beyond their own pet peeves, anyways) at all, and with the general hostility towards compensating anyone for their work in software, it’s not like a maintainer can afford to hire and develop a protégé. This is how maintainership worked in CPAN for decades and, barring a culture shift towards paying project maintainers for their maintenance effort, it’s how it’s going to continue working in most projects as us maintainers grow tired and fade out.