Which syncthing app is recommended nowadays? Does anyone know their trade-offs? The screenshot is from F-Droid, with the first three on the list updated quite recently.
I'm mostly interested in reputation, stability and no additional security overhead compared to upstream Syncthing project. (But still auto-disabled sync when on low battery, or without WiFi.)
And a reminder. The old Syncthing Android is out-of-date for 17 months now. Repeating this a little bit in case someone didn't notice yet.
Syncthing-fork is the fork of discontinued official app. I use it, and it's nice. SyncUp also looks good.
I'm using Syncthing-fork. Works fine for me.
I switched to BasicSync a few days ago. No idea about reputation.
It's a thin wrapper around Syncthing, which just gives you access to the web-UI, and can pause syncing depending on different conditions, like whether you're on battery or a mobile connection.
Just feels like a sensible approach to me. I don't need a native UI for setting up the syncing once in a blue moon. Obviously, you still don't know that it isn't malware, but I don't need to trust the author as much that they'll keep maintaining it, because it's magnitudes less work to do so. And it's just as well easier for a fork to succeed, should the author disappear.
Alternatively, run Syncthing in Termux.
Used to use fork, it works.
Honestly, grab Termux and install the official Linux version.
Still using Syncthing-Fork.
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