SyncTime App Reviews

Bought this in a heartbeat after looking through other mediocre file syncing utilities on the app store. Does the job perfectly. Nice array of features and flexibility for the advanced user. Seems very stable and well maintained. I use this app to keep certain folders on my local hard drive in sync with backup copies I store on bare drives (accessed through a hard drive dock). I love the simple interface for seeing what is being added, overwritten, and copied prior to a sync. Right now Im only using manual sync, but the features for auto and scheduled syncing look great as well.

Does one thing and does it well! It can sync folders or whole drives. You can choose what to exclude. It can sync both ways or you can choose to have the source completing the target. You can choose to always confirm the sync operation (useful for deletes). It can keep syncing in the background and it’ll auto-mount your network drive if you want. You can have as many sync operations as you want, each with different settings. The UI is very simple — it’s just a list of sync operations. When there’s an error, it shows a detailed error log so you know what’s going on.

Setup an automatic sync with a windows share. After the initial sync, it failed to automatically detect new items.

Had to find a simple app to sync files from main computer to backup drive and to another computer after my expensive software would no longer work on macOS Sierra. This little gem works great!

Was using Synk Pro for years but their last update was in 2012 and the program no longers works with Sierra. So after spending about 2 hours digging around I found this simple little app that does the same thing as Synk Pro (less the archive backups). I’ve just completed about an hour of testing and it seems to work beautifully. I’ll be using it for Pro Tools backups to an external drive with auto 5 minute increments.

Works perfectly for syncing my desktop to a network drive at work. Love that they keep updating it. Great UI.

I have selected the ‘Overwrite existing items” “Only If Older” option and yet it overwrites existing files that have not changed. I am backing up 162gb of pictures and it takes a whole day to do copy all the files so this is not acceptable. I ran the first sync, and as soon as it finished I ran it again assuming it would not copy any files because nothing had changed. It started overwritting the files. Not good.

An sync error occur after version up. I request an immediate bug fix!

Hello! Thank you! Its great app! But can you create if it possible in new versions hide app from doc and sync in background. Thx a lot!

Thanks for very useful app!

This is a great little app to keep two folders syncd up. The interface is clean and provides a simple approach that anyone can use. As an early adopter I had a few problems on Lion but the support was great and resolved the issues quickly and communications with support were excellent. With the 1.1.2 version I have no problems on either Lion or Mountain Lion. While I am using Time Machine for backups, as a developer I also find a need to keep a second copy of project files on external storage and this great little app allows me to effortlessly do that. I do use other programs to share files remotely with others, but if you prefer to use a USB flash drive, this app would be the way to go. At home my kids are always crashing the instance of iTunes I have running on a mirrored NAS server so I plan to keep the last working copy I used of the library on my Mac protected so I easily restore it.

Really wanted this to work as my use case is quite simple - to keep 2 folders synced, one on my network drive, the other on a removable storage device. However, upon sync, there is some error stating that I cant copy certain files as I dont have the permission to do so, and it just stops there. Repaired disk permissions, didnt help. As a "normal" user, I dont understand why I dont get any errors if I were to copy a folder from point A to point B, but using this app results in that permission error. I cant do anything else at this point and had to give up. Clicking on the support link results in a gateway timeout error on the website.

I was able to use this and is perfect for my solution. Where I needed new files that are at the source that are not in the destination but having it still work where the destination has lot more than whats in the source. This allows me to encode my videos and sync them to my server.

Extremely well designed and does what it says - FAST! I use it to sync important folders to a USB flash drive as an offsite backup to supplement my regular time machine backups. I wanted to be able to manually control what I sync based on what I know Ive changed, but still have a level of automation that makes it fast and easy to use. Usync delivers on all counts! Great app!!!!!!

Never works

Ive been looking for a program that would Conform a backup drive to whatever exists on the source drive. That means Copy new files to the destination, Update changed files on the destination, and Delete files on the destination that no longer exist on the source. This program does that fast and accurately. The Problem: I have over 400 GB of Final Cut Pro X events and projects in a folder Movies. Every time I add events or projects, or change events of projects, my backup drive is no longer the same as the source. If I use Time Machine, it doesnt delete the old files from the backup that have been deleted/changed on the source, so pretty soon my 400 GB of source files is close to a Terabyte on Time Machine. With SyncTime I can make the backup directory be the same size with the exact same files. This doesnt protect me if I screw up and make wrong deletes/changes on the source and then sync, but the tradeoff is worth it. The FileSync program has other options, such as adding new/changed files but not deleting old ones on the destination. I dont use this, but I can see that it could be handy for some. Note: This program is integrated with Finder, which was initially confusing. When you start it, you get a dialogue box to create multiple syncs, but the menu bar at the top of the screen says Finder and not FileSync.

I have an iMac with an attached 1 TB WD Hard drive. My skill set is a little above a beginner (certainly not advanced). I partitioned that drive into a 600 GB Time Machine and a 400 GB “Sync” partition. My Time Machine (partion and back up) works well; though I also wanted a sync partition that I could simply use to view latest files w/o having to use Time Machine. I tried rsync and Synkron and could never get those programs to work. Finally I got the $10 DropSync program to sort of work; though there were various information files that I likely didn’t need to back up which sometimes synced and sometimes didn’t. After a while that program stopped working. Finally I tried the inexpensive (and easy-to-use) SyncTime. The set-up was straightforward for a novice like myself. There was a simple check box to “exclude hidden files”. The Destination tab had a simple box to enable “Remove items not on source” (so deleted files wouldn’t remain in back up). Even the “Advanced” tab was easy. I simply enabled “One-way sync: mirror source to destination” and “Once synched, keep synchronized in background”. The total set up time took ~ 15 minutes without having to read complicated help sheets.

This is a nice little sync app and I think it is great for a simple job. Being a slightly distrustful sync-er, I’d really like to see what is going on during the sync a lot more clearly — this just gives me a progress bar and the name of the file being currently copied. I’d like to see a scrolling list of the files being copied. This app also does a nice job of listing the files being removed, overwritten, and added which is great as far as it goes. I’d really like to be able to select a file and change the behavior of that file — for instance, click on a file in the remove list and tell it not to remove that particular file. Instead, I have to go into the exclude filter and type the name of the file which is clumsy and slow. So, overall I give it 4 stars — with those improvements I think it could get to a 5 for me. Seems to work just fine and probably great for most people who are more trusting that things are working the way they should!

I have been trying to sync folders on various systems from the bad old MSDOS days on,and have been afflicted with a succession of tedious geeky cranky programs in both the Windows and Apple world. My last one could do almost anything, if you had a week to figure out how. Suddenly, the problem is solved!! SyncTime is simple, elegant, intuitive and actually fun to set up and use. I thank whoever did this. One of life’s aggrevations has been resolved. Seriously, this is an Apple-worthy point and click program that presents a lot of flexibility in an uncluttered, elegant way. Someone put a lot of work into making this clean and simple for us. Thanks.

As someone with complex syncing needs I was really looking forward to this program working as I wanted. It sync’d a source to a target just fine, including the sub folders from the source to the target. However, my test includes deleting one of the sub folders in the target and re running the sync…the missing sub folder in the target was not detected until I delete the sync and create a new one using the same source and target.