Syncthing-Fork
Thomas Reiser Productivity
Wrapper for Syncthing - Open and decentralized file synchronization
- Rating
- 4.3
- 2.1K ratings
- Downloads
- 567K+
- on Google Play
- Price
- Free
- No in-app purchases
- Updated
- Aug 14
- 2026 · v2.1.3.0
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About 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.
* "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.
* Android 8, 9 and 10 support.
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:syncthing/syncthing
* 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/Catfriend1/syncthing-android
Source code: https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android
How Syncthing writes to external SD card: https://github.com/Catfriend1/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/Catfriend1/syncthing-android/issues
Please help with the
Translation: https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/syncthing-android-1
* 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.
* Android 8, 9 and 10 support.
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:syncthing/syncthing
* 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/Catfriend1/syncthing-android
Source code: https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android
How Syncthing writes to external SD card: https://github.com/Catfriend1/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/Catfriend1/syncthing-android/issues
Please help with the
Translation: https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/syncthing-android-1
What’s new
Version 2.1.3.0 · Updated August 14, 2026
★ Syncthing v2.1.3.0 For more information on this milestone, please have a look at: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/releases/tag/v2.1.3
User reviews
Great open source app
Nice stuff. Great control over syncthing activity.
Great fork however it stopped working when my s10e upgrades to 11 and had to revert to non fork :( Great thanks anyway Thomas
Fantastic app. Best android front-end for syncthing. Developer is exceptionally helpful, and works hard to make this app as useful as possible. Syncthing can be a little hard for newcomers, but this app's take on the interface helps immensely.
Excellent app. Easily finds other devices and works perfectly in a multi device environment. Some have complained about problem with permissions for SD card. It would be nice if the app could handle that, but an easy workaround is to use Android\media\AppFolder for saving files.
This is a marvellous app. It allows me to keep my data sychronized between three Android devices and my Linux desktop computer. It works reliably and unobtrusively in the background with no noticeable impact on performance. It is simple to set up and it has good monitoring tools. I use it to synchronize my book coll...
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