File & conversion tools / Syncthing
Syncthing
Syncthing is listed for: cloud storage.
Where it stands
3.4 / 5
Signals score
Not a hands-on test
Based on 2 of 3 signals
- Website health3.5 / 5 · weight 50%
Measured from the tool's public website
- Community3.7 / 5 · weight 20%
What people said in public discussions
Built only from what we can measure or quote without using the tool. How ranking works
Rank by signals
We have not run our own hands-on test on Syncthing yet. How tests work
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Measured signals
3.5 / 5 · measured 2026-11-08Read automatically from Syncthing's public website: how reliable, secure, private and open the site is. This is not a test of how well the tool does its job. How this is measured
- Reliability5 / 5The page answered and finished downloading in 25 ms.
- Security2 / 50 of 5 protective headers set.
- Privacy5 / 5No third-party tracking services found on the page.
- Transparency1 / 5No privacy policy linked; no pricing page linked.
Community feedback
3.7 / 5 · 42 commenters74% of the 42 people whose comments we could classify were positive. Read automatically from public Hacker News threads about Syncthing; the classifier is simple and can misread sarcasm, so check the threads. How this works
- Positive
“Syncthing is really amazing, I have been using it for nearly two years to sync notes on all of my device; three laptops, one iPad, raspberry pi and a pixel 2. The most difficult thing was finding a solution to work on…”
Read in the thread - Positive
“syncthing is excellent for sharing also between groups. I wish it worked better for occasional file sharing (for example to transfer files between phone/pc). You cannot "share to syncthing" until it's active, so if you…”
Read in the thread - Critical
“Browsing the FAQ I noticed: To further limit the amount of CPU used when syncing and scanning, set the environment variable GOMAXPROCS to the maximum number of CPU cores Syncthing should use Are they using an environment…”
Read in the thread - Critical
“Instead Syncthing literally stop syncing ALL folders because "oh no something went wrong". For whatever reason open source software always has these weird edge case engineering "solutions" that really aren't that great”
Read in the thread
Threads: Syncthing Android App Discontinued (2024, 277 comments) · Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program (2021, 230 comments) · Syncthing: Open Source Dropbox and BitTorrent Sync Replacement (2014, 184 comments) · Syncthing: A continuous file synchronization program (2023, 124 comments)
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Tasks and scores
- Cloud storageNot tested yet
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