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EasySync

Synchronize your phone with your WebDAV server, the easy way.

Features

  • Synchronize images, videos, audio and downloads
  • Synchronize in both directions :
    • Files touched on your phone will be uploaded / deleted on your server
    • Files touched on your server will be uploaded / deleted on your phone
  • Basic auth (login with password) or Digest auth
  • Secure storage of your credentials
  • Preserve timestamps if you use Nextcloud as DAV server

Get it

On Google Play

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A free trial version (30 days) is also available here

On F-Droid

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FAQ

What is synchronized

  • Images, video, screenshots
    • If they are displayed in your gallery, they will be synchronized. This includes images and videos in DCIM/, Pictures/, Movies/ and Download/
    • If they are only available in a specific app but not in gallery, they won't be synchronized
    • Please note that messaging apps (messages, whatsapp, signal, etc.) generally offer you the choice between saving files in your gallery (in such case they will be synchronized) or not
  • Audio, music
    • All audio files that are visible in Alarms/, Audiobooks/, Music/, Notifications/, Podcasts/, Ringtones/ and Recordings/ will be synchronized
    • Beware that google's own voice recorder stores its files privately and offer its own cloud synchronization. They won't be synchronized by EasySync
  • Downloaded files
    • All downloaded files in Download/ will be synchronized, whether they are pdf, epubs, documents, images, etc.

What is not synchronized

Everything not explicitly stated above is not synchronized. More specifically:

  • Applications
  • Applications data/state
  • Messages
  • Contacts
  • Games progress
  • Wifi or network parameters
  • Android settings and phone customization

Can I choose what is synchronized

All files are synced unless you explicitly exclude folders.

Will it eat all my cellular data plan?

No, you can choose if you allow sync on cellular or only on wifi.

Will it eat all my storage?

No, you can select a subfolder on your NAS that will be synced. For example if you own 2 devices in your family, you can have one folder per device so they are synced independantly.

I am a nextcloud user. Does this replace nextcloud app?

When you configure EasySync you select a specific folder on your DAV server. This folder will be fully synced with your phone.

  • If you want to access files on your DAV server that are outside that specific folder, then you still need nextcloud app.
  • If you need per folder synchronization, then you still need nextcloud app.
  • If you want to use all nextcloud features (such as sharing), then you still need nextcloud app.
  • Otherwise it is probably not necessary.

Changes on android device side are not immediately reflected

  1. Please be sure to disable battery optimization permission (it will be shown on home screen if required). Disabling battery optimization will not drain your battery. It will just enable immediate sync of file changes.
  2. You may also enable Sync on cellular and/or Sync on battery in Synchronization settings ( available from home screen).

Changes on DAV side are not immediately reflected

In order to preserve battery we cannot detect quickly DAV changes. If you need immediate sync use " Sync now" button on home screen.

Use a self-signed or a custom certificate

You can add your own trusted certificate in android Settings > Encryption and Credentials

Supported Android phones

Supported WebDAV servers

It should work with any DAV compliant server.

WebDAV Server Preserves file creation timestamps Notes
Nextcloud ✅ Yes
owncloud ✅ Yes
SFTPGo ✅ Yes
Apache ❌ No
Hacdias Webdav ❌ No
Lighttpd ❌ No no etag support.
nginx ❌ No no etag support.
Photoprism ❓ Unknown Photoprism reads photos creation timestamps from exif data, so it will display correct timestamps

Supported WebDAV providers

WebDAV Provider Preserves file creation timestamps Notes
Mailbox ❌ No no etag support. Use https://office.mailbox.org/servlet/webdav.infostore as URL and /Userstore//Documents as remote folder.
kDrive ❓ Unknown

Sync is slow on Nextcloud

There are several reports of nextcloud DAV to be slow.

You can get drastic speedup (almost 10x) when using a device password instead of your user's password:

  1. Create a device password
  2. Go to DAV Settings in easysync, use your own login, but put the device password instead of your usual user password
  3. Enjoy 10x speedup

Donate

If you like this app consider making a donation

License

MIT

By using this application, you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions and legal disclaimer.

Roadmap

  • Fix: handle permissions rejected that cannot be asked anymore (the permission activity doesn't start)
  • Feature: check for low free space on dav or on device
  • Optimization: when new remote files are locally added during FullSync, a FileSync is trigged which is useless. See if we can avoid this

Update / add translations

  • Create/update app/src/main/res/values-xx/strings.xml
  • Create/update fastlane/metadata/android/xx/full_description.txt
  • Create/update fastlane/metadata/android/xx/short_description.txt

Replace xx with your ISO 639-1 language code. E.g. en for english, fr for french, etc.

For new languages:

  • Add a new locale entry to app/src/main/res/xml/locales_config.xml
  • Add a new locale entry to app/build.gradle in resourceConfigurations key

See also