# Syncthing alternative running over reticulum

_General · started by falafool on Sun, Jun 14, 2026 1:57 PM_

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## Original post

**falafool** · Sun, Jun 14, 2026 1:57 PM

I've already asked for distributed cloud systems with strangers over at:
https://rns.recipes/forum/general/distributed-cloud-system-over-reticulum

And the suggestion was Bitbucket, but is that also a fit for a syncthing replacement? (as this is not done with strangers)

I mean at the end of the day everyone is using syncthing but no one really likes it. So I find reticulum might be a perfect match. Would also love to have some kind of versioning of deleted or changed files and use it on my phone.

Does something like this exist? Or is something in the works? Let me know and I'd love to throw syncthing away!

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## Reply 1

**welo** · Sun, Jun 14, 2026 6:29 PM

https://web.archive.org/web/20260517183445/https://git.quad4.io/RNS-Things/RNS-Filesync existed but it has since been deleted or switch names. Either way someone would probably have to rewrite an entirely new version cause it wasn't that well maintained.

You could maybe get away with using rngit depending on your use case

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## Reply 2

**welo** · Sun, Jun 14, 2026 6:36 PM

You could also tunnel tcp traffic through reticulum and then have syncthing use that, it would be possible. Though there's no real good ways of tunneling tcp traffic yet (the ways I've seen are very experimental at best), and it's probably not the most efficient thing ever.

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## Reply 3

**Ivan** · Sun, Jun 14, 2026 8:36 PM

Here it is now but I am currently reworking it and will integrate it as a tool in MeshChatX https://github.com/Quad4-Software/RNS-Filesync

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## Reply 4

**Necom** · Wed, Jun 17, 2026 5:58 AM

When you say you will integrate it into MeshChatX, I assume it will also be available as a standalone and not only via MeshChatX? I have this raspberry pi that I always keep running, with syncthing on it. That way if my other devices can't sync because they aren't running at the same time, they won't have conflicts because the pi records all changes and can sync all devices. I don't want to have to install MeshChatX on it, I mean I don't see how it would even run without a desktop environment. I suppose I could just keep the desktop environment running 24/7 but I prefer not to have it running unless I really need to access some kind of graphical application.

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## Reply 5

**Ivan** · Wed, Jun 17, 2026 5:43 PM

Yes I will keep it separate and integrate it like I do LXMFy bots.

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