FolderSync Pro

A Google user

5 years ago

I love it. It does everything I needed to do syncing folders from my phone to my PC, individually, on a schedule, with options like verifying that I'm on Wi-Fi and charging. The only negative was that I spent quite a while trying to figure out how to make it work because it wouldn't out of the box. I figured out that you have to enable SMB version 1 on the PC. Which Microsoft just disabled because it's very very old and has some vulnerabilities. I hope they update it to handle SMB v3 soon.

Ben Pearre

3 years ago

Indispensable but broken! Best thing out there 6 years ago, and perhaps still is, but today that's regrettable. Problems: long pauses on some files, complete failure and sync termination on others, no apparent reason, and the error log is useless. I think it might be due to Android 11 deciding to break Unix filename conventions and silently disallow formerly legal characters (undocumented AFAICT) or else some piece of the interface failing to escape a special character properly, but FolderSync handles this gracelessly. Developer's reply was "just rename all your files" (currently 6000 and counting). Transferring large files over slow flaky networks: rsync can resume partial downloads---it's trivial---but foldersync still has to start from scratch again. Bizarre UI decisions: after one folder pair fails to sync, you're given a button to retry all pairs, but not just retry the one that failed. There are two different sync status screens, and you get the less informative one if you enter through the default route. Etc. So: I can't live without it, but it's obsolete and broken and needs more than just a cosmetic overhaul.

Matt Wiseley

4 years ago

Finally got s3 to SD sync working. Defaults and error messages are unhelpful, so plan to do some research on your own to make it work. For example, it should prompt for the s3 region rather than having to enter a custom endpoint. And it should advise that SD access must be granted at the SD root folder... it lets you pick a subfolder and then gives access errors. Once I got over those hurdles, it's great.

Kakha Khmelidze

5 years ago

If there wouldn't be a few so major flaws, this app could be a strong number one in it's class. For example, it can't sync photos by its date of taken or real file generation time. It hasn't ability to reorder folderpairs. These two are most important features for me. Moreover, I need to mention about one more unpleasant flaw. Application deletes the original creation date and time of files during the sync. So, it can't copy group of files to another directories by their original creation date.

Richard Chang

3 years ago

Update: Not sure when this happened but this app now supports local sync to USB OTG storage devices (e.g., flash drives). Only app that I've have found that does that! Tested on two Samsung devices running Android 11 & 12. You can even sync between a flash drive and an SD card!!! Now I wish there was a way to name folder pairs. I have two folder pairs to sync and they look exactly the same on the list of folder pairs. :-|

Dylan Reed

2 years ago

Fantastic app! I was looking for something that would auto sync my game Saves to google drive without having to use the emulator cloud saver app. It defaults to Dropbox and I dont want to pay the subscription. Google Drive and Google Files had no option to auto sync a folder. I tried researching on it but no luck. It was telling me to download a software on my PC. This app was cheaper than the other one which was $9.99 for JUST google drive but this one has all cloud saves accounts. Very happy!!

M Henigman

4 years ago

The latest update of the app is fantastic. I no longer have to make sure the app is running in the background to sync or make sure my phone stays on while it syncs. Everything works in the background exactly as it should. I very highly recommend this app to anyone that needs to sync their mobile device to a server (I use the WebDAV protocol). I've already emailed the developer about what a fantastic update this has been. Keep up the great work. I've bought the app and would buy it again.

Raul Torres

4 years ago

Great app! Setting up is easy and contains lots of sync options. Definitely worth getting the pro version if you're looking to use multiple online accounts to sync across. It even allows for "offline" local syncing to any device internal storages. My only feature request is to allow modified inclusive folders within the source location to be removed when successfully synced. As it is now, it can only remove modified source files and thus ignores the remnant folders which are now empty.

Anand Thirumalai

1 year ago

Exceedingly simple to use. Terrific app! One thing they need to change pronto is an error in "connection" settings for sync'ing a folder. You can tell the software to only sync when the device is connected to a particular Wifi SSID. But it throws an error. If you then disallow that very same SSID, then it syncs just fine. They have programmed the inputs incorrectly for these two fields and they need to be switched.

Michael G

2 years ago

Update: 3-2023. This app is a must have for anyone who separates their photos and documents in different folders and backs up to a cloud service. I have different folders for photos labeled Home, Work, Friends, etc. I keep the photos in the right folder and this app then syncs them perfectly to the right folder in Google Drive. I can then delete from my phone what I want, but everything is on the Drive. Works great and keeps everything correct.

A Google user

6 years ago

Terrific so far. Been looking for an app that can auto download files that I put in a specific folder into my onedrive, this worked perfectly. Love the pro version for the very quick syncing! Thanks devs, the options are plentiful and the app is much better than other options. Great tool. edit: small thing, when you gave a lot of sync folders it gets tedious trying to edit them when the app doesn't remember window position. basically you have the scroll down a million times when editing.

Jerry Park

4 years ago

Works beautifully on incremental syncs and backup (webdav). Initial sync of large chunks of data tend to fail even with a stable Wi-Fi connection but I can't really blame the app without digging into the logs. A few retries were all that were required whenever that happened. The new UI (2020) is very clean and more intuitive. Thanks for your continued commitment to the development of the application.

Ray RedSpider

2 years ago

Your app needs to learn to stop being so hard on itself. I get notifications all the time that it failed to sync, but after it successfully synced everything. I'm not kidding, over and over I always get notifications saying sync failed, but everything syncs! It needs to learn to like itself and accept that it's very good at what it does. I fully understand low self esteem and being self critical, but honestly, this app works, and very very well. I just feel it doesn't give itself enough credit.

Beth Swan

1 year ago

Latest upgrade to their "new" V2 sync is a fail. Stopped syncing. Should we expect something else? That seems to be the standard now. Update: okay, we we CAN pick with sync engine to use, but only during folder pair setup. But not after it's established. V2 doesn't work for any of our devices, so beware.

Chuck Byard

1 year ago

Exclude subfolders is no longer in the options when creating folderpairs. I assume this is now supposed to be done with filters despite the old simplicity of just adding a check in the setup. Online folder sync documentation doesnt seem to tell you what to put in the filter to exclude all subfolders. I tried many different generic wild card operators none seem to work. I am surely not gonna make a filter for each subfolder.

Cody Flock

1 year ago

Good until Android 13 file permissions add it a nightmare to backup internal SD cards with this. Now it's just a constant battle with "To protect your privacy you can't do this....". The whole point of this was for me to not have to thin about missing backing up files on my phone, not have to manually add every file and hope something isn't missing.

John Paccione

1 year ago

Great app, but could use a feature... This may only be me, but can you add a function to leave the source directory structure intact once you sync out the files? I already understand that I can sync to a dated destination directory (which I also use), but the photos that are taken I put into separate directories with descriptions in the name. It's for inspection and the same directories need to be recreated every time I sync.