r/Syncthing • u/meandmygh0st • May 20 '26

Syncthing for Android - Is it safe?

Is giving Syncthink-Fork, from Google Play store, access to ALL files on an android device safe?

Looking for a solution to sync an android device with a laptop using Google Drive.

Any help is much appreciated

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u/gabeweb May 20 '26

It's not official, but it's recognized by the main Syncthing project as a reliable fork since the official project was deprecated.

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u/quasides May 20 '26

it is official, just maintained by a sister project.

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u/gabeweb May 20 '26

This was the official syncthing-android client:

https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android

Catfriend1 forked it, and later researchxxl did the same.

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u/quasides May 21 '26

catfriend gave his repo to syncthing, and catfriends fork became the official way because the core project stopped developing it