# Current status of Syncthing on Android?
**URL:** https://forum.syncthing.net/t/current-status-of-syncthing-on-android/26973
**Category:** General
**Created:** [July 31, 2026, 12:29pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/current-status-of-syncthing-on-android/26973 "2026-07-31T12:29:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@clownus\_domesticus](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/clownus_domesticus)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2026, 12:29pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/current-status-of-syncthing-on-android/26973/1 "2026-07-31T12:29:18Z")
I stopped using syncthing-fork on Android after it was supposedly [handed over to a new developer under dubious circumstances](https://www.heise.de/en/news/Key-handover-in-the-dark-Syncthing-fork-community-raises-alarm-11107337.html).
What is the current status? Is there a trusted version of Syncthing on Android?
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### Author:  [@calmh](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/calmh)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2026, 7:41pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/current-status-of-syncthing-on-android/26973/3 "2026-07-31T19:41:46Z")
The repo is there for auditing. I’ve heard nothing to indicate there’s any form of scam or data exfiltration involved, rather than just an inept project handover to someone with different ideas of how to run a development project. 🤷
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### Author:  [@clownus\_domesticus](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/clownus_domesticus)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2026, 9:10pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/current-status-of-syncthing-on-android/26973/4 "2026-07-31T21:10:43Z")
So this one is the current recommended fork? → [GitHub - researchxxl/syncthing-android: Syncthing-Fork - A Syncthing Wrapper for Android. · GitHub](https://github.com/researchxxl/syncthing-android)
The nel0x one seems to have also been abandoned: [GitHub - nel0x/syncthing-android: Syncthing - A Syncthing Wrapper for Android. · GitHub](https://github.com/nel0x/syncthing-android)
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### Author:  [@SyncUser56](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/SyncUser56)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2026, 12:25am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/current-status-of-syncthing-on-android/26973/5 "2026-08-01T00:25:40Z")
Same here. Something doesn’t sound right. throughout my life my gut feeling has warned me several times, I learned to listen to it!
It appears to be more an opportunist interested being able to see what files & contents people sync. These days with the ever-growing more and more sophisticated and variations-on-a-theme of scams it wouldn’t surprise me if the latest scam emerging is placing an “official” person as front man.
No, not paranoid [yet] Just very careful and becoming ever so more!
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### Author:  [@acolomb](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/acolomb)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2026, 7:23pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/current-status-of-syncthing-on-android/26973/6 "2026-08-02T19:23:26Z")
Other wrappers to utilize Syncthing on Android devices have popped up since. I personally have good experience with BasicSync, then there is Syncup as a multi-platform choice also for iOS. And Syncthing-Tray has an Android port in the works.
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### Author:  [@mdonz](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/mdonz)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2026, 3:00am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/current-status-of-syncthing-on-android/26973/7 "2026-08-05T03:00:32Z")
I very much like Syncthing-Fork and was using it on several devices successfully for a long time. Their project handover process made me looking into alternatives (although I do “want to trust” that project ..) and have positive experiences with SyncUp since.
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### Author:  [@Semmu](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/Semmu)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2026, 11:54am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/current-status-of-syncthing-on-android/26973/8 "2026-08-05T11:54:44Z")
I can also vouch for [BasicSync](https://github.com/chenxiaolong/BasicSync), it has some advantages over Syncthing-Fork (better process handling, does not reimplement and duplicate Syncthing settings UI, etc.)
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### Author:  [@rogers11](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/rogers11)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2026, 2:59am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/current-status-of-syncthing-on-android/26973/9 "2026-08-06T02:59:09Z")
Why are you listening to your gut instead of checking the code, and why are you making insinuations without any evidence to back them up?
Yes, I know, that’s become the norm in some parts of the world.
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### Author:  [@SyncUser56](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/SyncUser56)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2026, 3:31am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/current-status-of-syncthing-on-android/26973/10 "2026-08-06T03:31:22Z")
You assume and project way too much. Maybe I’m not a “coder”? Could that be? Why is there widespread concern expressed about the “handover”? The highly ambiguous “Access” notice?
You last phrase “Yes, I know, that’s become the norm in some parts of the world.” Is an inappropriate snark with a mild derogatory undertone.
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### Author:  [@rogers11](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/rogers11)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2026, 3:57am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/current-status-of-syncthing-on-android/26973/11 "2026-08-06T03:57:43Z")
I think I’m the only one of the two of us who hasn’t been spreading assumptions. I simply asked why you’re criticising something without having any evidence to back it up. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a programmer or not.
And as for my second comment, I’ve got nothing further to add.
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### Author:  [@asdf8dfafjk](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/asdf8dfafjk)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2026, 9:37am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/current-status-of-syncthing-on-android/26973/13 "2026-08-10T09:37:06Z")
There you have it, if the original developer trusts it, so do I.
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### Author:  [@steko](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/steko)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2026, 9:37am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/current-status-of-syncthing-on-android/26973/14 "2026-08-11T09:37:55Z")
fyi that account is a new one, see [Does anyone know why syncthing-fork is no longer available on Github? - #264 by sams](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/does-anyone-know-why-syncthing-fork-is-no-longer-available-on-github/25661/264) steko
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### Author:  [@Arneko](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/Arneko)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2026, 5:24am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/current-status-of-syncthing-on-android/26973/15 "2026-08-12T05:24:22Z")
While I have also not heard about the software being scammy or misleading, just some… weird …communication style, the posts from the _new_ @Catfriend1 (account created some months ago just to put in a good word) and newly created user @asdf8dfafjk certainly are.
After reading this thread, I certainly have lost what little remaining trust I had in the traditional android APKs and will try out one of the alternatives and say good bye to the old wrapper - and I have been a Syncthing user pretty much from day 1.
Those accounts undermine the trust the parent project (vanilla Syncthing) has, they should be banned IMHO.
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### Author:  [@asdf8dfafjk](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/asdf8dfafjk)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2026, 4:48pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/current-status-of-syncthing-on-android/26973/16 "2026-08-18T16:48:00Z")
> [@Does anyone know why syncthing-fork is no longer available on Github?](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/does-anyone-know-why-syncthing-fork-is-no-longer-available-on-github/25661/265):
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> It would appear that @Catfriend1 has deleted their account and then started anew. Much as that isn’t an action I’d have recommended under the circumstances for the purposes of building trust, it does seem somewhat in-character. For what it’s worth, from what I can glean as an admin, both the old and new account had 2FA enabled and come from the same region of the world. person_shrugging Oh the drama. I guess a cool next step could be for researchxxl to rename their GitHub account, rebase the …
I think catfriend1 likes peace but the admin says (he is himself not sure) that the new account is same person as old account.
Also, i’m definitely not him
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### Author:  [@calmh](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/calmh)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2026, 7:10pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/current-status-of-syncthing-on-android/26973/17 "2026-08-18T19:10:36Z")
The fact is that the accounts & maintainers were reset – without continuity from the old to the new – so trust was reset at the same time. You can let them build up new trust over time. I don’t see this as materially different from any other new open source project that pops up. Use it or not, based on the same trust reasoning you would any other project.
Whether any given pseudonymous account represents the same or a different person now as before, I don’t see that it matters greatly. You didn’t know who they were before, you don’t know who they are now. You’ll need to treat it as a new identity regardless and judge them by their actions.
Or, shorter – previously someone you didn’t know used to maintain a thing. Now someone else you don’t know maintains the thing. Deal with it. 😎🤷