Alternatives to rsync for all platforms with any license

Syncthing

Syncthing replaces proprietary sync and cloud services with something open, trustworthy and decentralized. Your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android Android Tablet ... BSD Self-Hosted Cloudron
Peer-To-Peer Decentralized File-search File-sync ... Mesh network Real-time sync Add a feature

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FreeFileSync

FreeFileSync is a folder comparison and synchronization software that creates and manages backup copies of all your important files.

Freemium $ $ $ Open Source Mac Windows Linux openSUSE CentOS ... Ubuntu Debian
Cloud sync File-sync Multiple languages Add a feature

394 Like
Rclone

rsync for cloud storage. Rclone is a command line program to sync files and directories to and from the cloud.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD Solaris ... FreeBSD NetBSD OpenBSD
Cloud sync File-sync Lightweight Support for WebDAV Add a feature

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GoodSync

GoodSync syncs files between your computer, mobile devices, FTP, SFTP, Amazon S3, Google Drive, SkyDrive, WebDAV, Azure.

Freemium $ $ $ Mac Windows Android iPhone Android Tablet ... iPad
2 way sync Support for 64 bit Direct P2P Sync End-to-end encryption ... File-sync Mirror Backup Multiple languages Portable Real-time sync Sync on Schedule Visual Comparison Support for WebDAV Add a feature

108 Like
SyncBack

SyncBack is a backup and file synchronization software that allows backing up and synchronizing files to the same or different drives, to different media (CD, DVD...

Freemium Mac Windows Linux Android Android Tablet
File-sync Add a feature

111 Like
- Only supports insecure remote backups, very irresponsible Guest • Nov 2015 • 0 agrees and 2 disagrees
Unison

Unison is a file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different...

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux
Bidirectional sync 2 way sync File-sync Well documented Add a feature

73 Like
Déjà Dup

Déjà Dup is a simple backup tool. It hides the complexity of doing backups the 'right way' (encrypted, off-site, and regularly) and uses...

Free Open Source Linux
Encrypted backups Incremental backup Schedule Backup Well integrated in Debian 9 Add a feature

50 Like
SyncToy

SyncToy is a free PowerToy designed by Microsoft, that provides an easy to use graphical user interface that can automatically synchronize local or network files and...

Free Windows
File-sync Add a feature

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Bvckup 2

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...

Commercial Windows
Archive Deleted Items Delta Backup File Versioning Support for FTP ... Incremental backup Portable Real-time backup VSS compatible Add a feature

57 Like
grsync

Grsync is a rsync gui, a graphical user interface for the rsync file synchronization and backup tool. It works on linux, solaris, windows, mac os x and maemo. It uses...

Free Open Source Windows Linux Xfce
No features added Add a feature

29 Like
Synkron

Synkron is an application for folder synchronisation and folder-backups that allows you to configure your synchronisations in detail. Despite having many features, the...

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux PortableApps.com
Multiple languages Portable Add a feature

75 Like
- Discontinued Last Update: 2014-10-11, see https://sourceforge.net/projects/synkron/
DirSync Pro

DirSync Pro (Directory Synchronize Pro) is a small utility for file and folder synchronization without bidirectional file-deletion. DirSync Pro can be used to...

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux
File-sync Incremental backup Add a feature

25 Like
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Back In Time

Back In Time is a simple backup tool for Linux inspired from FlyBack and "TimeVault".

Free Open Source Linux
No features added Add a feature

38 Like
Create Synchronicity

Create Synchronicity is a nice, lightweight backup program with a very user-friendly - yet powerful - interface, that synchronizes files and folders extremely quickly...

Free Open Source Windows
File-sync Folder Comparison Folder Mirroring Mirror Backup ... Portable Add a feature

30 Like
- Discontinued The project is no longer developed. Last version, 6.0, released in March 2012, can be still downloaded from the official website.
Toucan

Toucan is a small portableapp utility allowing you to synchronise, backup and secure your data with more options than the built in suite utilities. It is split up into 7...

Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com
Encrypted backups File-sync Incremental backup Multiple languages ... Portable Add a feature

28 Like