Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program
Syncthing works brilliantly! The web UI is excellent, warns you when you're about to do something ill-advised, and stuff like QR codes makes adding clients and folders fairly easy. The separation between folders and devices is handled well. You can easily have half a dozen shared folders between several computers with any mix-and-match combination including which one is 'authoritative' and so on.<p>I used to use it on Android to keep my 'camera roll' synced to my desktop. I preferred setting the ignore file to exclude android's thumbnails directory, but otherwise it worked great. I'd take a photo with my phone and almost before I could open the shortcut on the desktop, boom, the photo was there, since the android client detects changes in the filesystem.<p>I also used it to sync my password database, and a cross-platform notebook app's database. Worked flawlessly for all of them.<p>Ditto for a folder shared between my MacOS laptop and Windows desktop.<p>Lots of controls, especially in the forked android client. Don't want the sync client to run on any network other than your home network? Done. Don't want your syncthing clients to try and do NAT transversal / discovery outside whatever network it's on? No problem.<p>The biggest bummer is that there's no iOS client. Had to switch to Nextcloud, which <i>so far</i> has been working OK, but the number of people that have problems with the iOS client is quite high (problems such as syncs being so slow it takes days to sync a camera roll), and it's generally sluggish and doesn't work in the background (yes, I know, Apple's fault.) However, Nextcloud does allow me to sync contacts and calendars (I think. I haven't tried to set it up yet.)<p>One warning: Sycnthing <i>really</i> does not like it when you delete the dotfile folder inside the shared folder(s). Don't do that :)