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iOS		syncthing
	Project
6	Mentions	130
1,764	Stars	59,372
1.6%	Growth	1.7%
9.8	Activity	9.5
6 days ago	Latest Commit	10 days ago
HTML	Language	Go
Apache License 2.0	License	Mozilla Public License 2.0

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

iOS

Posts with mentions or reviews of iOS. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-18.

Is DuckDuckGo application an open source project? I don’t see it in Github.
1 project | /r/duckduckgo | 3 Jul 2023

Apple iOS Browser https://github.com/duckduckgo/iOS
DuckDuckGo for Mac beta now open to the public
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Oct 2022

Yes, we plan to open source as we come out of beta. It's similar to our iOS app/browser, which is already open source here: https://github.com/duckduckgo/ios
[iOS] import bookmarks
1 project | /r/duckduckgo | 15 Apr 2022
SPO600 Lab1 - Code Review
2 projects | dev.to | 31 Oct 2021

To contribute to this project, contributors can either report an issue or require to create a pull request with a fix in their GitHub page with detailed description stated. Once one of the reviewers has reviewed the code and approved the changes, the code will be merge into the main branch.
I need an iOS browser app with WebUI
1 project | /r/iOSProgramming | 30 May 2021

DuckDuckGo App is Open Source and pretty trivial to setup if that's what you need: https://github.com/duckduckgo/iOS
Another Secure, simple and encrypted video conferencing tool that allows you to create a virtual private office.
2 projects | /r/privacytoolsIO | 24 Dec 2020

The DuckDuckGo iOS App also has a non-proprietary software license and their website works with proprietary JavaScript [software] disabled.

syncthing

Posts with mentions or reviews of syncthing. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-19.

Platform issues which disadvantage Firefox compared to first-party browsers
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Jan 2024

My biggest gripe with Firefox on Android is that sometimes I enter a domain in the address bar, press enter and nothing happens.
This behaviour seems to be erratic and only affects a few websites, such as https://forum.syncthing.net.
Closing the tab or using a different one doesn't solve the problem. I need to force close the app to fix this.
Why are Apple Silicon VMs so different?
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Dec 2023

Syncthing has had on their roadmap for 9.5 years to support iOS but hasn’t due to lack of interest by the developers to devote the time to make it.
https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/102
macOS is supported though.
And Syncthing via 3rd parties does support iOS.
Syncthing problems
2 projects | /r/Syncthing | 26 Sep 2023

I haven't been able to access https://docs.syncthing.net or https://forum.syncthing.net/ but I was able to access some of the docs via github. I think I've set it up according to the docs. The logs contain lots of messages like:
iCloud Drive silently deletes your content
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Sep 2023

Malware built into iOS makes it impossible to install Syncthing[0], which is a problem for most of the people who use iCloud tp sync their files.
[0] https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/102
Veilid is an open-source, P2P, mobile-ﬁrst, networked application framework
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Aug 2023

https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/8423
Why is There no Official Flatpak Version?
1 project | /r/Syncthing | 11 Jul 2023

They seem to have chosen Docker instead of Flatpak. You can get it with Docker by running:
The holy grail of note-taking: Private data, efficient methodology and P2P encrypted sync across all your devices
1 project | /r/Syncthing | 7 Jun 2023

syncthing is fully open sourced and distributed under MPL-2 licenses, while dropbox is not!
Keep SD Cards in sync
1 project | /r/SBCGaming | 24 May 2023
Continuous File Sync Written in Go Trending on GitHub
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 May 2023
Syncthing: A continuous file synchronization program
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 May 2023

You could try to force QUIC which should handle latency a bit better. The priority of TCP/QUIC will be configurable with the upcoming v1.23.5 release:
https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/pull/8868

What are some alternatives?

When comparing iOS and syncthing you can also consider the following projects:

SyncTrayzor - Windows tray utility / filesystem watcher / launcher for Syncthing

Nextcloud - ☁️ Nextcloud server, a safe home for all your data

syncthing-android-fdroid - Syncthing-Fork - A Syncthing Wrapper for Android. F-Droid release channel. DO NOT USE except for builds. Refer to https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android if you'd like to issue PR.

rclone - "rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Yandex Files

Baïkal - Baïkal is a Calendar+Contacts server

Samba - https://gitlab.com/samba-team/samba is the Official GitLab mirror of https://git.samba.org/samba.git -- Merge requests should be made on GitLab (not on GitHub)

syncthing-android - Syncthing-Fork - A Syncthing Wrapper for Android.

Seafile - High performance file syncing and sharing, with also Markdown WYSIWYG editing, Wiki, file label and other knowledge management features.

BookPlayer - Player for your DRM-free audiobooks

Git Annex

react-native-chart-kit - 📊React Native Chart Kit: Line Chart, Bezier Line Chart, Progress Ring, Bar chart, Pie chart, Contribution graph (heatmap)

Go IPFS - IPFS implementation in Go [Moved to: https://github.com/ipfs/kubo]