contacts VS TbSync

Compare contacts vs TbSync and see what are their differences.

TbSync

[Thunderbird Add-On] Central user interface to manage cloud accounts and to synchronize their contact, task and calendar information with Thunderbird (by jobisoft)
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contacts

Posts with mentions or reviews of contacts. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-24.

TbSync

Posts with mentions or reviews of TbSync. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-12.
  • Our Fastest, Most Beautiful Release Ever: Thunderbird 115 โ€œSupernovaโ€ Is Here
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Jul 2023
    What I mean is that if you have an Outlook account, and you want to use Thunderbird for it, you will need to sync your Outlook calendar with Thunderbird. Outlook uses Exchange ActiveSync instead of CalDav/CardDav for this syncing.

    The way to give Thunderbird these capabilities are by installing these two connected addons [1, 2]. At least till June 2022, I could see meeting invites from colleagues in Thunderbird. I would also see the translucent event in the calendar in Thunderbird. But accepting the invite would not work [2]. Also creating and sending Outlook calendar events from within Thunderbird didn't work. So, I always had to open the web Calendar to do these things. Thunderbird was only good for meeting reminders.

    There is a new major release of the addon since then, so it is possible that the bug is fixed.

    > I apparently don't get event invites from Outlook Calendars then

    Obviously if your email/calendar account is something else, then you have no problem. If someone sends an invite to my gmail, from their outlook, I can accept it fine from within Thunderbird, because Thunderbird/gmail are communicating using Caldav (I think).

    > Which clients do work with that then, only Outlook itself?

    I will use Thunderbird as much as possible till it is pried from my cold dead hands!

    [1] https://github.com/jobisoft/TbSync/

    [2] https://github.com/jobisoft/EAS-4-TbSync/wiki/About:-Provide...

  • EteSync not working with Thunderbird partially
    1 project | /r/EteSync | 7 May 2023
  • Synchronise CardDAV contacts to iPadOS, OT
    2 projects | /r/Thunderbird | 13 Oct 2022
    I use TbSync with DAV-4-TbSync to integrate my iOS contacts with Thunderbird.
  • ProtonContacts and synchronization with Android
    1 project | /r/ProtonMail | 23 Apr 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing contacts and TbSync you can also consider the following projects:

rainloop-nextcloud - Rainloop plugin for Nextcloud

Google-4-TbSync - This provider add-on adds Google synchronization capabilities to TbSync. Only contacts and contact groups are currently managed, using Google's People API.

headless-wp-starter - ๐Ÿ”ช WordPress + React Starter Kit: Spin up a WordPress-powered React app in one step

DAV-4-TbSync - [Thunderbird Add-On] The CalDAV & CardDAV provider for TbSync to sync contacts, tasks and calendars to Thunderbird.

Monolog - Sends your logs to files, sockets, inboxes, databases and various web services

vdirsyncer - ๐Ÿ“‡ Synchronize calendars and contacts.

laravel-totem - Manage Your Laravel Schedule From A Web Dashboard

tsdav - WebDAV, CALDAV, and CARDDAV client for Nodejs and the Browser

calendar - ๐Ÿ“† Calendar app for Nextcloud

files_pdfviewer - :book: A PDF viewer for Nextcloud

LookOut-fix-version - Fork of LookOut (fix version)