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Alternatives to syncthing for syncing files with android
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I've been using Fork for years. Möbius on iOS has financial support from a 3rd party that uses Syncthing in their own processes, so I suspect it will stay around.
That said, Resilio Sync is the other most-viable option I know (and use).
It's a little less kind to battery with larger folder pairs, and uses more memory since it stores the index in RAM. But it's robust.