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24 alternatives to Neutron Sync

encrypted config file sync

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Neutron Sync launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Sync-in▲79

    Open-source file storage, sharing, collaboration & syncing

    Apr 2026 · sync-in.com · its alternatives →

  2. 2
    Portal▲92

    Zero-config P2P encrypted folder syncing, not the 2007 game

    2021 · its alternatives →

  3. 3SS

    i made sink. it's a simple little tool that continuously syncs folders between 2 devices. no cloud, no email, flash drives, no bs. it just uses your local wifi. run it on your machines, tell them to trust each other, and you're set. and if you manage to edit the same file at once, it handles the conflict and saves both copies. for anyone who just wants to get files from point a to b without the headache. hope it makes your life a bit less annoying. github: https://github.com/sirbread/sink binary:…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Phase▲159

    Open-source secrets management for developers

    2023 · its alternatives →

  5. 5OS

    https://github.com/acheong08/obsidian-sync Hello HN, I'm a recent high school graduate and can't afford $8 per month for the official sync service, so I tried my hand at replicating the server. It's still missing a few features, such as file recovery and history, but the basic sync is working. To the creators of Obsidian.md: I'm probably violating the TOS, and I'm sorry. I'll take down the repository if asked. It's not ready for production and is highly inefficient; Not competition, so I hope you'll be lenient.

    2023 · its alternatives →

  6. 6SY
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    Dotsync▲88

    A simple and concise dotfiles synchronizer

    2023 · its alternatives →

  8. 8IO

    Last month, we open-sourced Infisical (https://github.com/Infisical/infisical) - a simple, end-to-end encrypted tool to sync environment variables across your team and infrastructure. You can use it to store environment variables and inject them into your applications locally or into CI/CD and production infrastructure. It can be used with any language/framework and is platform independent with a super easy setup. We know secret managers exist but, in our experience, they’re too complicated, not comprehensive, not user-friendly, or a mix of all three — other…

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

  9. 9

    Help dev teams sync environment variables

    2022 · its alternatives →

  10. 10

    Your Dropbox alternative where nada is stored on the cloud.

    2019 · its alternatives →

  11. 11

    Hi HN, I've been building Nucleus, a lightweight Linux container runtime focused on two workloads: ephemeral AI-agent sandboxes and declarative NixOS services. It's a single Rust binary, no daemon. It is not a Docker replacement and not a strict subset of Docker either. I dropped the entire image-and-distribution half (no Dockerfile, no layers, no registry, no pull/push, no persistent storage layer) in exchange for going deeper on isolation and reproducibility. The rootfs is either a directory copied into tmpfs (agent mode) or a Nix-built closure mounted read-only (production mode). If…

    Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

  12. 12

    Smart sync & share creative projects instantly

    2017 · its alternatives →

  13. 13SR
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    EnvKey▲79

    Protect api keys and credentials. Keep config in sync.

    2017 · its alternatives →

  15. 15

    Encrypted filesharing through the IPFS network

    2021 · its alternatives →

  16. 16SA
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    Fast, private file sharing for teams and individuals

    2015 · its alternatives →

  18. 18AR

    From the cryptic terminal commands to the innumerable ways to shoot yourself in the foot, I always struggled to use TLS certificates. I love how much easier (and cheaper) Let's Encrypt made it to get certificates, but there are still plenty of things to struggle with. That's why we built Relay: a free, browser-based tool that streamlines the ACME workflow, especially for tricky setups like homelabs. Relay acts as a secure intermediary between your ACME client and public certificate authorities like Let's Encrypt. Some ways Relay provides a better experience: - really fast, streamlined…

    2025 · anchor.dev · its alternatives →

  19. 19

    Free secure cloud storage | proton

    2025 · proton.me · its alternatives →

  20. 20

    sync your .env files easily between devices in home network

    Mar 2026 · envsync.arnav.tech · its alternatives →

  21. 21LS

    Hi guys, creator of lockable here - the easiest way to think of lockable is as `flock` for when you don’t have a shared file system. You can use it to control concurrent access to resources or to ensure only a single instance of a process runs at any given time. Your processes can acquire, refresh and release locks via simple HTTP requests, so it’s language/framework agnostic. E.g. with `curl`: $ curl https://lockable.dev/api/acquire/my-lock-name { "response": true //or false, if the lock wasn’t available } $ curl…

    2022 · lockable.dev · its alternatives →

  22. 22GA

    Author of gocryptfs and co-maintainer of EncFS here. gocryptfs is a FUSE overlay filesystem for Linux like EncFS. But it is written from scratch in Go, uses modern crypto and fixes the security issues of EncFS while providing equivalent speed. Some of the key differences to EncFS are: * Just one security level roughly equivalent to EncFS "paranoia" mode, at the speed of "default" mode. * A design so simple it fits on one page ( this one: https://nuetzlich.net/gocryptfs/security/ ) * Explicit filesystem creation using "gocryptfs -init". No configuration prompts. *…

    2016 · its alternatives →

  23. 23

    Cloud/Self-hosted sync/backup app, zero-Knowledge encryption

    2020 · its alternatives →

  24. 24WA

    just wanted to share ward, a tool i hacked together to encrypt and manage sensitive files in a vault folder. it's written in bash and meant to be cloned and then stored using git or version control. you don't have to store it that way, it's just why i created it. what ward does: encrypts the files in ./vault/ into a single .gpg file, checks to see if your files have been tampered with, generates totp codes if you need them to recover critical accounts. how to use it: clone the repo, toss your files into the vault directory, and run yarn encrypt. now commit your new [private]…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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