GoodSync AlternativesTop File Sync Tools & Backup Clients like GoodSync

GoodSync is described as 'Professional software for file backup and synchronization. It automatically syncs files across various platforms such as computers, mobile devices, or drives, with or without cloud-based services' and is a very popular File Sync tool in the backup & sync category. There are more than 100 alternatives to GoodSync for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iPhone apps. The best GoodSync alternative is Syncthing, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like GoodSync are FreeFileSync, Duplicati, Rclone and rsync.

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  1. Syncthing icon

    Syncthing

     876 likes

    Open-source, peer-to-peer service offering encrypted file synchronization, ensuring data privacy and user-autonomy without relying on cloud storage or central servers, suitable for various uses.

    132 Syncthing alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
    • Termux
    • Terminal
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    Syncthing vs GoodSync Comments
    Tupã Negreiros
    Negative
    6

    Although Syncthing is a great file synchronizer, do not completely replace Goodsync, as it does not sync files on the same computer and has no option to move files (delete at source).

    bjarte
    Positive
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    I agree with the above comment. While being a great tool for its use, this is not the same kind of tool as GoodSync. This is more of a backup tool. When running Syncthing on two directories on the same computer that was already in sync, it wasn't able to see that the files where already there and copied everything over again in addition to creating a lot of zip files instead of copying the actual files.

    • Syncthing is Free and Open SourceGoodSync is Freemium and Proprietary
    • Syncthing is Lightweight and Privacy focusedGoodSync is not according to our users
  2. FreeFileSync icon

    FreeFileSync

     612 likes

    Open-source software for syncing and backing up files across Windows, macOS, and Linux by transferring only essential data.

    107 FreeFileSync alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • PortableApps.com
    • Chocolatey
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    FreeFileSync vs GoodSync Comments
    Guest
    Negative
    3

    Only ftp and sftp connection are available in FreeFileSync. GoodSync has WebDAV, Azure, Amazon, Google Drive, Dropbox and more!

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
    Positive
    3

    In a quick test, I can tell it behaves almost identically to GoodSync. Seems to be a good program.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    John Edwards
    Negative
    -3

    FreeFileSync is a disaster, it took 24hs to copy over all the files, GoodSync does it in 3hs (clean backup to empty local folder). And what's worrisome: it always finds some new 2-3 GB every time i compare the folders even though i didn't make any changes on the remote directory.

    • FreeFileSync is Freemium and Open SourceGoodSync is Freemium and Proprietary
    • FreeFileSync is Lightweight and Privacy focusedGoodSync is not according to our users
  4. Duplicati icon

    Duplicati

     354 likes

    Duplicati stores encrypted, incremental backups with AES-256 encryption and GPG, compatible with Windows, Linux, MacOS. Supports cloud services like OneDrive, Google Drive, and includes a built-in scheduler, auto-updater. Run backups through a web interface or command line.

    138 Duplicati alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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    Duplicati vs GoodSync Comments
    Guest
    Negative
    -2

    It only allows backup local files to FTP, I needed the other way around i.e. backup FTP files on local directory.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Duplicati is Freemium and Open SourceGoodSync is Freemium and Proprietary
    • Duplicati is Privacy focusedGoodSync is not according to our users
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    Rclone

     176 likes

    Rclone ("rsync for cloud storage") is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers.

    94 Rclone alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Oracle Solaris
    • FreeBSD
    • NetBSD
    • OpenBSD
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  7. rsync icon

    rsync

     271 likes

    rsync is a software application for Unix which synchronizes files and directories from one location to another while minimizing data transfer using delta encoding when appropriate. An important feature of rsync not found in most similar programs/protocols is that the mirroring...

    131 rsync alternatives

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    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Cygwin
    • Haiku
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    rsync vs GoodSync Comments
    Tupã Negreiros
    Negative
    0

    rsync is great, but for me the biggest flaw is not having two-way synchronization.

    • rsync is Free and Open SourceGoodSync is Freemium and Proprietary
    • rsync is Privacy focusedGoodSync is not according to our users
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    Restic

     67 likes

    restic is a program that does backups right. The design goals are: Easy, Fast, Verifiable, Secure, Efficient, Free.

    63 Restic alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Arch Linux
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
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    SyncBack

     143 likes

    SyncBack allows for backing up, synchronizing, and restoring files on Windows. It offers a free version, SyncBackSE and Pro for more features, including local networks and cloud backups. Ideal for individuals and large organizations like hospitals, ensuring data protection and recovery.

    100 SyncBack alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
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  11. Kopia icon

    Kopia

     38 likes

    Kopia is a fast and secure open-source backup/restore tool that manages filesystem snapshots in a remote storage. It features client-side encryption, compression, backup policies. command-line interface and more.

    18 Kopia alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  12. Unison File Synchronizer icon

    Unison File Synchronizer

     96 likes

    Unison is a file-synchronization tool for POSIX-compliant systems (e.g. *BSD and GNU/Linux), macOS and Windows, with the caveat that the platform must be supported by OCaml. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or diffe.

    54 Unison File Synchronizer alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Snapcraft
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    odrive

     85 likes

    Unify all your storage. odrive makes it easy to access, sync, and share all your files from one place. Integrations to 20+ services, desktop sync, CLI (inc. Linux), placeholders, zero-knowledge-encryption, web client, advanced sharing, and more.

    63 odrive alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Raspberry Pi
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  14. Bvckup 2 icon

    Bvckup 2

     78 likes

    Simple fast backup for Windows. At a glance - small and very lean, very fast delta copier, excellent user interface, device tracking, shadow copying, move/rename detection, run-as-a-service mode, robust support for multi-million item backups with terabytes of data, intelligent...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  15. Mountain Duck icon

    Mountain Duck

     36 likes

    Mountain Duck lets you mount server and cloud storage as a disk in Finder on macOS and the File Explorer on Windows. Open remote files with any application and work like on a local volume.

    37 Mountain Duck alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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