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Instead of Resilio Sync, I would suggest that people take a look at Syncthing. They have similar features but Syncthing is open source.

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I haven't tried Synthing in about a year, but to me Resilio and Syncthing look like they are from completely different classes of apps/they target different markets.

Syncthing is simply not designed for the mainstream. Resilio is. If Syncthing devs can fix that, I'll gladly start using it over Resilio with my non-technical friends.

How do you fix "not being mainstream"? What exactly is your issue with Syncthing?

There is no iOS app for Syncthing as far as I can tell

You can use fsync() [0] for that.

[0]: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fsync/id964427882?mt=8

Thank you! So as it is available on iOS, I need to adjust my comment to reflect what I mean. There isn’t a free, open-source, community-driven implementation for iOS, keeping with the nature of the project.

They're crowdfunding one: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/7699463-native-ios-port-...

(There's also a closed-source iOS app called fsync(), but I found it too slow/unstable to use.)

That’s great to know, and I can see there has been quite a bit of discussion the topic. I’m glad I’m not the only one that was missing an open implementation for iOS.

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