# Does anyone know why syncthing-fork is no longer available on Github?
**URL:** https://forum.syncthing.net/t/does-anyone-know-why-syncthing-fork-is-no-longer-available-on-github/25661
**Category:** General
**Created:** [November 13, 2025, 2:36pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/does-anyone-know-why-syncthing-fork-is-no-longer-available-on-github/25661 "2025-11-13T14:36:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@tomasz86](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/tomasz86)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2025, 10:28am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/does-anyone-know-why-syncthing-fork-is-no-longer-available-on-github/25661/218 "2025-12-28T10:28:16Z")
> [@rustycanb](#):
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> I’m on Android 15 and have not noticed excessive battery drain \< 1% after two hours, but termux does get killed by Android after that time
This doesn’t sound normal unless your device runs out of memory completely or the OS uses some kind of “battery optimisation” techniques that kill background apps (see [https://dontkillmyapp.com](https://dontkillmyapp.com) 😅). I’ve been using Syncthing via Termux on multiple Google Pixel devices running GrapheneOS for a long time, and I don’t remember it ever getting killed.
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### Author:  [@bege](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/bege)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2025, 9:52pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/does-anyone-know-why-syncthing-fork-is-no-longer-available-on-github/25661/220 "2025-12-28T21:52:40Z")
@nel0x Are you the next developer which got lost?
@calmh @AudriusButkevicius Do you plan to take Syncthing for Android into your repo?
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### Author:  [@nel0x](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/nel0x)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2025, 10:45pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/does-anyone-know-why-syncthing-fork-is-no-longer-available-on-github/25661/221 "2025-12-28T22:45:56Z")
@Labtitan because for now we have agreed on continuing development on @researchxxl’s Repository (and I don’t want mine to be a ‘competing’ repo) and @bege, yes they don’t have anything against it, hopefully it will be merged into the Syncthing Org by researchxxl sometimes in 2026.
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### Author:  [@calmh](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/calmh)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2025, 11:45pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/does-anyone-know-why-syncthing-fork-is-no-longer-available-on-github/25661/222 "2025-12-28T23:45:16Z")
> [@bege](#):
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> Do you plan to take Syncthing for Android into your repo?
There is an open invitation to bring the repo within the organisation.
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### Author:  [@rustycanb](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/rustycanb)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2025, 3:57am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/does-anyone-know-why-syncthing-fork-is-no-longer-available-on-github/25661/223 "2025-12-29T03:57:07Z")
@tomasz86 You’re correct, battery optimisation was killing Termux. Changing that to allow unrestricted background use resolved that. Over several hours Termux has now used 1% battery. I’ll continue to monitor battery consumption over 24 hours of Syncthing connection. Thanks for the insight.
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### Author:  [@bege](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/bege)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2025, 10:57am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/does-anyone-know-why-syncthing-fork-is-no-longer-available-on-github/25661/224 "2025-12-29T10:57:27Z")
I feel a bit left alone with a repo owner with very specific not user oriented ideas like removing root access. Currently I only can use your “competing” release.
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### Author:  [@kineita](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/kineita)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2025, 11:32am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/does-anyone-know-why-syncthing-fork-is-no-longer-available-on-github/25661/225 "2025-12-29T11:32:32Z")
Hi @nel0x , could you help me clarify this one - Syncthing Fork on Playstore will continue to maintain with build from @researchxxl ? Or Syncthing Fork on Playstore will be shutdown forever ?
Thank you
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### Author:  [@nel0x](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/nel0x)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2025, 12:09pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/does-anyone-know-why-syncthing-fork-is-no-longer-available-on-github/25661/226 "2025-12-29T12:09:54Z")
> could you help me clarify this one - Syncthing Fork on Playstore will continue to maintain with build from @researchxxl
Yes, thats the plan. However it gets build in the future it will not disappear on the Playstore.
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### Author:  [@kineita](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/kineita)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2025, 12:35pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/does-anyone-know-why-syncthing-fork-is-no-longer-available-on-github/25661/227 "2025-12-29T12:35:12Z")
Thanks for your effort @nel0x , I think it will be the best if @researchxxl include your playstore link to @researchxxl’s github repo like recognize and clarification for you.
I’ll continue to use your build on Playstore, it also help everyone want to use app on Playstore and don’t need reinstall other app on Playstore as well. Btw if you need support from Android development, please ping me I’m Android dev like you 🙏
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### Author:  [@researchxxl](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/researchxxl)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2025, 3:50pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/does-anyone-know-why-syncthing-fork-is-no-longer-available-on-github/25661/228 "2025-12-29T15:50:24Z")
hey @nel0x i am happy we now aim to work together to get the best for the community and users of the app :)) i very welcome your contributions - meanwhilst there are two or three new contributors on the repo and with a handful of people imo we have great options to do coding supporting and publishing together with each contributors strenghts in different places
i am currently busy testing.. uh.. researching different variants of translation config to reinstate the translation of the app via a fixed branch and freq pulls
just let me know if you need anything to open the way for our working together =)
if you require i can also add bundlerelease to the release process - just saw if comparing our repos that this was the main diff between them you give users aab and me giving out apk artifacts
please choose freely and alter any time you see fit: what is your main aim to contribute?? am i guess right you focus on publishing the google play artifacts?? would you also have interest in coding and support aid??
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### Author:  [@researchxxl](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/researchxxl)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2025, 3:54pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/does-anyone-know-why-syncthing-fork-is-no-longer-available-on-github/25661/229 "2025-12-29T15:54:50Z")
> [@bege](#):
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> I feel a bit left alone with a repo owner with very specific not user oriented ideas like removing root access.
i am sorry for that!! did not intend to leave you alone but the root feature really was unmaintained for years and i do not have magic powers or four research hands to do it.. maybe give @nel0x a little bit to land and settle in the new situation and we could politely and calmly ask them if there is interest to maintain at least the aged code for the google play release branch - if there will be any - so the minority of root users still has a way to load a build including the feature?? sure.. they would need to test from time to time but the code removed did not look huge nor complicate so feasible if they wanna take the time
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### Author:  [@nel0x](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/nel0x)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2025, 5:17pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/does-anyone-know-why-syncthing-fork-is-no-longer-available-on-github/25661/230 "2025-12-29T17:17:54Z")
> [@researchxxl](#):
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> if there is interest to maintain at least the aged code for the google play release branch
I mean if we put in the work to maintain it would there be any reason to not include it in the ‘main’ flavour - thus not diverge in a GPlay-specific capability? Generally I can take this feature under my umbrella, but I don’t use a rooted device myself too, so this feature would be on a ‘best effort’ basis …
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### Author:  [@acolomb](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/acolomb)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2025, 5:28pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/does-anyone-know-why-syncthing-fork-is-no-longer-available-on-github/25661/231 "2025-12-29T17:28:19Z")
I was previously working with @Catfriend1 on the translation setup. We can integrate it with the existing project on Hosted Weblate again, which has the advantage of easier sharing between different Syncthing components.
However if the repository is going to move into the syncthing organization, I’d like to wait for that so we can make a clean setup and not move around willy nilly.
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### Author:  [@bege](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/bege)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2025, 5:32pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/does-anyone-know-why-syncthing-fork-is-no-longer-available-on-github/25661/232 "2025-12-29T17:32:59Z")
Can we continue this issue in the respective github issue? [Full Device Storage Access · Issue #60 · researchxxl/syncthing-android · GitHub](https://github.com/researchxxl/syncthing-android/issues/60)
I am ready to test root access.
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### Author:  [@bege](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/bege)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2025, 5:35pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/does-anyone-know-why-syncthing-fork-is-no-longer-available-on-github/25661/233 "2025-12-29T17:35:33Z")
Just removing it was not a good idea. Searching for help - now found with @nel0x - and leaving it for now is the better idea IMO.
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### Author:  [@joshbgosh10592](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/joshbgosh10592)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2025, 4:01am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/does-anyone-know-why-syncthing-fork-is-no-longer-available-on-github/25661/234 "2025-12-30T04:01:57Z")
The researchxxl repo now states in the release notes to “ **Please pay attention to the package ID while upgrading”** but it doesn’t say what to do or how to determine which to use. Obtainium sees both the syncthingandroid\_release and syncthingfork\_release for v2.0.13.0, but which do we choose?
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### Author:  [@kineita](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/kineita)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2025, 6:01am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/does-anyone-know-why-syncthing-fork-is-no-longer-available-on-github/25661/235 "2025-12-30T06:01:11Z")
Hey @researchxxl, I don’t think we shouldn’t create seperate package name it will be fragmentation for syncthing …
I’m happy when you’re inviting @nel0x to join project for releasing on Playstore but …. please make it official build in syncthing project instead of only a branch.
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### Author:  [@GonBThis](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/GonBThis)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2026, 1:35pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/does-anyone-know-why-syncthing-fork-is-no-longer-available-on-github/25661/236 "2026-01-04T13:35:58Z")
I’m a pretty basic user so i don’t understand the technicalities, but a few months back i remember there was a change in the app id where Obtainmium would throw a warning about the app id not matching and could not update it -iirc the change was related to the transition from v1 to v2 and preventing the app conflicting with something.
You had to go on Github and follow Cat’s instructions on migrating your config and pick one based off of your preference, if you’re like me you probably went with the syncthing-fork id.
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### Author:  [@buck2202](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/buck2202)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2026, 6:01am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/does-anyone-know-why-syncthing-fork-is-no-longer-available-on-github/25661/237 "2026-01-06T06:01:08Z")
I was inadvertently left behind on catfriend’s 1.x (I don’t auto-update, and v1 was pulled from fdroid), and have been silently following this the last month or so.
I’m genuinely thinking to leave syncthing-fork in favor of termux or syncthingtray for the near term (I’m glad to see things seeming amicable, but wow has there been a lot of whiplash ), but I am curious–with catfriend’s repos gone, do the v1→v2 migration instructions still exist anywhere? Or were they lost when catfriend’s v1 repository was deleted?
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### Author:  [@monozygote](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/monozygote)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2026, 10:01pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/does-anyone-know-why-syncthing-fork-is-no-longer-available-on-github/25661/238 "2026-01-12T22:01:15Z")
I was [concerned about this much before](https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/23419-stacked-cryptographic-filesystem-on-android-possible-can-cryptomator-do-it/4) this “controversy” unfolded. I was only casually looking for solutions back then but now I’m seriously/actually doing it.
Basically don’t trust syncthing-fork (or even syncthing if you want but I was mostly concerned about the forks/3rd-party stuff) and only share encrypted stuff - so even if there’s a leak (due to malice/incompetence/…) you are better protected (depending on your threat model ofc).
Setup:
- Linux: Use `gocryptfs` to initialise/point to an encrypted dir (/path/ciphtertext) and fuse mount it to plaintext dir (/path/plaintext). Point syncthing to `/path/ciphtertext`
- MacOS: use `gocryptfs` again - use macFUSE or whatever it’s called now, or use `lima` to run a linux VM and share ciphertext and plaintext dirs between host/guest.
- Android: Use `DroidFS` - in its settings allow it to create the document provider mounts for plaintext that you can now see via your system-picker/file-picker.
Use syncthing to only sync the ciphertext dir. Since this is not a block-device encryption and per file encryption only the diff gets sync-d, just like it would with regular files. Now even if syncthing-fork or whatever goes rogue, it only touches encrypted stuff so it’s not that bad.
I use GrapheneOS (evident from the link above) so I additionally storage-scope it to just that root dir which contains encrypted files/dirs. Working OK so far.
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