Alternatives to Syncthing
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. Syncthing itself: install Syncthing.
gobuster
Directory/File, DNS and VHost busting tool written in Go
ncc
Compile a Node.js project into a single file. Supports TypeScript, binary addons, dynamic requires
pywhat
🐸 Identify anything. pyWhat easily lets you identify emails, IP addresses, and more. Feed it a .pcap file or some text and it'll tell you what it is!
gdown
Google Drive public file downloader when curl/wget fails
reveal-md
reveal.js on steroids! Get beautiful reveal.js presentations from any Markdown file
inih
Simple .INI file parser in C, good for embedded systems
dwarfs
A fast high-compression read-only file system for Linux, FreeBSD, macOS and Windows
gcsfuse
A user-space file system for interacting with Google Cloud Storage
folderify
:file_folder: Generate pixel-perfect macOS folder icons in the native style. (Now with support for macOS 26 Tahoe!)
julius
Open-Source Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition Engine
gitwatch
Watch a file or folder and automatically commit changes to a git repo easily
sitefetch
Fetch an entire site and save it as a text file (to be used with AI models)
httm
Interactive, file-level Time Machine-like tool for ZFS/btrfs/nilfs2 (and even Time Machine and Restic backups!)
toast
Containerize your development and continuous integration environments. 🥂
UVtools
MSLA/DLP, file analysis, calibration, repair, conversion and manipulation
diffnav
A git diff pager based on delta but with a file tree, à la GitHub
alass
"Automatic Language-Agnostic Subtitle Synchronization"
lazyjournal
TUI for viewing logs from journald, auditd, file system, Docker and Podman containers, Compose stacks and Kubernetes pods with support for log highlig
s3ql
a full featured file system for online data storage
osslsigncode
OpenSSL-based Authenticode signing for PE, CAB, CAT, MSI, APPX, and script file
Aural Player
(Archived) An audio file player for macOS, inspired by Winamp
scrcpy
Display and control your Android device
go
The Go programming language
node
Node.js JavaScript runtime ✨🐢🚀✨
How we picked these
We match on what the tool does and how it installs, then order by how widely each project is used. We're not saying these are better or worse than Syncthing — that depends on what you're building. We're saying they're the projects people reach for in the same situations, and each one has an install command we checked against its documentation.
Syncthing is developed by its own authors and this page is an independent reference; we are not affiliated with or sponsored by any project listed, and nothing here is a paid placement.