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Stars 4,853

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Forks 582

Last Commit 4 months ago

Programming language: C#

License: GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

Tags: File Sharing and Synchronization Distributed filesystems File transfer/synchronization

Latest version: v3.38

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Syncthing

9.9 9.5 SparkleShare VS Syncthing

Open Source Continuous File Synchronization
Nextcloud

9.7 10.0 L4 SparkleShare VS Nextcloud

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Seafile

9.1 6.4 L3 SparkleShare VS Seafile

High performance file syncing and sharing, with also Markdown WYSIWYG editing, Wiki, file label and other knowledge management features.
ownCloud

9.0 9.8 L4 SparkleShare VS ownCloud

:cloud: ownCloud web server core (Files, DAV, etc.)
Kinto

7.7 9.1 L3 SparkleShare VS Kinto

A generic JSON document store with sharing and synchronisation capabilities.
myDrive

7.1 0.0 SparkleShare VS myDrive

Node.js and mongoDB Google Drive Clone
Git Annex

6.9 9.9 SparkleShare VS Git Annex

DISCONTINUED. File synchronization between computers, servers, external drives
Syncany

6.7 0.0 L3 SparkleShare VS Syncany

DISCONTINUED. Syncany is a cloud storage and filesharing application with a focus on security and abstraction of storage.
Pydio

6.5 3.1 L2 SparkleShare VS Pydio

DISCONTINUED. Turn any web server into a powerful file management system and an alternative to mainstream cloud storage providers.
Samba

5.9 10.0 L2 SparkleShare VS Samba

https://gitlab.com/samba-team/samba is the Official GitLab mirror of https://git.samba.org/samba.git -- Merge requests should be made on GitLab (not on GitHub)
Z-Push

- SparkleShare VS Z-Push

An implementation of Microsoft’s ActiveSync protocol
Unison

- SparkleShare VS Unison

Unison is a file-synchronization tool for OSX, Unix, and Windows.
OpenSSH/SFTP

- SparkleShare VS OpenSSH/SFTP

Secure File Transfer Program.

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README

SparkleShare

SparkleShare is a file sharing and collaboration app. It works just like Dropbox, and you can run it on your own server. It's available for Linux distributions, macOS, and Windows.

You can support this project through 💕 GitHub Sponsors.

How does it work?

SparkleShare creates a special folder on your computer. You can add remotely hosted folders (or "projects") to this folder. These projects will be automatically kept in sync with both the host and all of your peers when someone adds, removes or edits a file.

Install on Ubuntu or Fedora

You can install the package from your distribution (likely old and not updated often), but we recommend to get our Flatpak with automatic updates to always enjoy the latest and greatest:

flatpak remote-add flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak install flathub org.sparkleshare.SparkleShare

Now you can run SparkleShare from the apps menu.

Note: by default SparkleShare uses an AppIndicator status icon on Linux. If you use GNOME on a distribution other than Ubuntu, please install the AppIndicator extension. If you don't use GNOME, you can start SparkleShare with --status-icon=gtk.

Install on macOS

Download the app from the releases page.

Set up a host

Under the hood SparkleShare uses the version control system Git and the large files extension Git LFS, so setting up a host yourself is relatively easy. Using your own host gives you more privacy and control, as well as lots of cheap storage space and higher transfer speeds. We've made a simple script that does the hard work for you. If you need to manage a lot of projects and/or users we recommend hosting a GitLab Community Edition instance.

Build from source

SparkleShare is Free and Open Source software and licensed under the [GNU GPLv3 or later](LICENSE.md). You are welcome to change and redistribute it under certain conditions. Its library Sparkles is licensed under the [GNU LGPLv3 or later](LICENSE_Sparkles.md).

Here are instructions to build SparkleShare on [Linux distributions](SparkleShare/Linux/README.md), [macOS](SparkleShare/Mac/README.md), and [Windows](SparkleShare/Windows/README.md).