This is an implementation of a SparkleShare client for macOS built with modern SwiftUI. It covers most of the features of the discontinued SparkleShare. As the original C# app is not maintained anymore, this is intended as a modern replacement at least for macOS.
SparkleShare is a set of projects that allows to automatically sync directories to a remote file storage based on git. It can be used e.g. as a private alternative to commercial syncing or for easy project collaboration with version history and safe syncing included. Please use Dazzle for the initial setup of the git repositories to connect to.
Related projects are:
- Download the latest DMG from the Releases page
- Open the DMG and drag SparkleShare-Mac to your Applications folder
- Since the app is not code-signed, macOS will quarantine it. Remove the quarantine attribute by running:
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/SparkleShare-Mac.app
- Launch the app from Applications
- Menu bar icon with syncing status and progress
- Add existing local paths or clone remote repos (called "projects" in SparkleShare)
- Automatic sync: pulls every 5 minutes and on wake from sleep, pushes on local file changes (batched commits with a 5-second timeout after file changed have been detected to reduce intermediate commits)
- SSH key management with auto-generated keys
- Error list view (allowing to ignore common errors)
- Launch at login (enabled by default)
- Mobile Deployment: automatically re-deploy SparkleShare iOS to a connected device before the provisioning profile expires
Original SparkleShare features not currently supported:
- Dedicated Git LFS support
- Use notifications.sparkleshare.org to pull instantly when remote changes happened (which is based on https://github.com/hbons/TrumpetCat/)
- Show recent changes view (but can also be done with pure
git) - Invites and Client Side Encryption