Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Syncthing
The 20 closest file synchronization software alternatives to Syncthing, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 9 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Syncthing? The closest matches are Dropbox, FreeTDS.org and Signal. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 4,032
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 21 ms
01 · Entity
About Syncthing
Syncthing syncthing.net
Syncthing
Wikidata: open source continuous file synchronization software
Summary by Claude
Free, open-source peer-to-peer software that continuously synchronizes files between a user's own devices or with other people, without a central server, using TLS encryption and device certificates.
- Who it’s for
- Privacy-conscious individuals, technical users and teams
- Business model
- Donations (nonprofit foundation)
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Syncthing’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Syncthing
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Syncthing, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Dropbox: Secure cloud storage, file sharing, and more
Discover Dropbox – secure, easy cloud storage for file sharing and collaboration. With Dash, save time and organize all your company content in one place.
Very close cos 0.904 - 02 Close cos 0.892
- 03
Signal >> Home
Say "hello" to a different messaging experience. An unexpected focus on privacy, combined with all of the features you expect.
Close cos 0.891 - 04 Close cos 0.889
- 05
WeTransfer | Skicka stora filer snabbt
Det enkla, snabba och säkra sättet att skicka filer till hela världen utan ett konto. Dela filer, foton och videor idag helt gratis.
Close cos 0.891 - 06
Let's Encrypt
Let's Encrypt is a free, automated, and open Certificate Authority brought to you by the nonprofit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). Read all about our work in our Annual Report.
Close cos 0.889 - 07
Best Password Manager for Business, Enterprise & Personal | Bitwarden | Bitwarden
Bitwarden is the trusted, open source password manager for individuals, teams, and enterprises. Securely store, share, and manage passwords, passkeys, and secrets. Free to start.
Close cos 0.889 - 08
Zotero | Your personal research assistant
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.
Close cos 0.888 - 09
Doxygen homepage
Source code documentation and analysis tool
Close cos 0.887 - 10
NTP: Network Time Protocol
The NTP Project conducts Research and Development in NTP, a protocol designed to synchronize the clocks of computers over a network to a common timebase.
Close cos 0.884 - 11
NLnet Labs - Home
Research & Development, Internet architecture, DNS, Routing, Stability and Security.
Close cos 0.884 - 12
The FreeBSD Project
free Unix-like operating system
Close cos 0.884 - 13
nginx
open source web server and a reverse proxy server
Close cos 0.884 - 14
The Linux Kernel Archives
Unix-like operating system kernel, basis for all Linux operating systems
Close cos 0.885 - 15
Building tools for shared knowledge - Creative Commons
family of public copyright licenses for allowing free use of a work
Close cos 0.883 - 16
iLovePDF | Online PDF tools for PDF lovers
iLovePDF is an online service to work with PDF files completely free and easy to use. Merge PDF, split PDF, compress PDF, office to PDF, PDF to JPG and more!
Close cos 0.884 - 17
curl
command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax
Close cos 0.881 - 18
Checking you are not a bot
open-source desktop environment software project
Close cos 0.881 - 19
OSF
tools that make open science practice easier
Close cos 0.883 - 20
development and dissemination of internet software and tools
Close cos 0.880
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to syncthing.net’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Syncthing uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Syncthing is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.4.1.min.js
- CSS & UI
- Bootstrap asset https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.3.1/js/bootstrap.min.js
- Font Awesome asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/5.13.0/css/all.min.css
- CDN
- Hosting
- GitHub Pages header server: GitHub.com
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX syncthing-net.mail.protection.outlook.com
- Email delivery
- Mailgun TXT v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:mailgun.org ~all
- DNS hosting
- Hetzner DNS NS hydrogen.ns.hetzner.com
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Syncthing adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on syncthing.net 11/20
- Google Workspace · not on syncthing.net 9/20
- Microsoft 365 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on syncthing.net 6/20
- Atlassian · not on syncthing.net 5/20
- Stripe · not on syncthing.net 5/20
- nginx · not on syncthing.net 5/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on syncthing.net 4/20
- Cloudflare · not on syncthing.net 4/20
- Amazon SES · not on syncthing.net 3/20
- Notion · not on syncthing.net 3/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on syncthing.net 3/20
- Slack · not on syncthing.net 3/20
- Zendesk · not on syncthing.net 3/20
- Mailchimp · not on syncthing.net 3/20
- Font Awesome 3/20