syncany/syncany

Health v2 · maintenance only

Flags: archived no_license

Adoption not part of the score

1640 stars · 218 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Syncany is an open-source cloud storage and file-sharing application that backs up and syncs folders to arbitrary remote storage backends (FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, S3, Samba) with client-side encryption. It uses a plugin-based storage system and offers both a GUI and CLI, but the project is discontinued and was never released as stable.

Use cases

• sync folders to my own ftp or s3 storage instead of dropbox
• encrypt files locally before uploading to cloud storage
• share an encrypted folder with friends using any storage backend
• back up photos to webdav or samba shares
• self-hosted file sync with pluggable storage providers

When to choose

• you need client-side encryption with flexible storage backends and are willing to maintain the code yourself
• you want an open-source Dropbox alternative that works with arbitrary storage plugins

When to avoid

• you need a maintained, stable product - the project is abandoned and was alpha quality
• you need reliable backup for important files
• you want active community support or recent security updates

Facets

application · maturity abandoned

cryptography backup file-system plugin-system cli gui privacy files self-hosted cloud-computing security cross-platform jvm cli file-sync cloud-storage dropbox-alternative client-side-encryption storage-plugins discontinued desktop

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