FileSync Alternatives

FileSync is described as 'File/folder synchronization utility for keeping files up to date' and is a File Sync tool in the backup & sync category. There are more than 50 alternatives to FileSync for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and BSD apps. The best FileSync alternative is Meld, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like FileSync are rsync, Beyond Compare, Unison File Synchronizer and SyncBack.

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  1. Sync Folders icon
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    The Sync Folders Pro synchronizes any number of folders on the fly at the same time when there are changes, or connecting external drives at a set time or manually. The app sync folders with or without filter for folder names and / or file names.?

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  2. DropCopy icon
     5 likes

    Easily and quickly send files and folders to multiple destinations across your LAN by simply dragging files onto recipients in a popup window.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  3. SemanticMerge icon
     4 likes

    SemanticMerge - The diff and merge tool that understands C#, Vb.net, Java and now C

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. Folder Sync icon
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    An application to help you keep multiple pairs of folders in sync, quickly and easily. View differences between pairs of folders on screen using user defined coloured coding. Folder Sync allows you to utilise a fully automatic sync or manually manipulate the files yourself to...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  5. A graphical user interface for rsync, which looks-and-feels like a standard FTP client, but uses the rsync protocol ‘under the hood’ to boost transfer speeds.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  6.  4 likes

    cwRsync is a yet another packaging of rsync and Cygwin for Windows. You can use cwRsync for fast remote file backup and synchronization. Rsync uses the rsync algorithm which provides a very fast method for bringing remote files into sync.

    39 cwrsync alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. CompareMerge icon
     3 likes

    CompareMerge is a Mac OSX's software tool for file comparison and merging text-like files.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  8. DeltaCopy icon
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    Let's say you have to backup one file that is 500 MB every night. A normal file copy would copy the entire file even if a few bytes have changed. DeltaCopy, on the other hand, would only copy the part of file that has actually been modified.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Great for synchronizing large collections of media files such as MP3s, Videos, etc... without copying every file. Save time by only copying the files that are new or different. Use "Clone Mode" to synchronize a folder to match a master folder.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. Powerful folders and archives synchronization tool. Built-in support for zip archives and FTP. Can be used as backup tool, for folders comparison, and for CDRW verification. Produces HTML reports and printout of folders comparison result.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11.  2 likes

    Lsyncd watches a local directory trees event monitor interface (inotify or fsevents). It aggregates and combines events for a few seconds and then spawns one (or more) process(es) to synchronize the changes. By default this is rsync.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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