SparkleShare alternatives and similar software solutions
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Seafile
High performance file syncing and sharing, with also Markdown WYSIWYG editing, Wiki, file label and other knowledge management features. -
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Syncany
DISCONTINUED. Syncany is a cloud storage and filesharing application with a focus on security and abstraction of storage. -
Pydio
DISCONTINUED. Turn any web server into a powerful file management system and an alternative to mainstream cloud storage providers. -
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)
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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).
Useful links
- sparkleshare.org
- @SparkleShare, @hbons
- Community chatroom on Gitter
- Wiki
Have fun, make awesome. :)
*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the SparkleShare README section above
are relevant to that project's source code only.