title = 'Syncthing on Android via Termux'
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-Over the last few days, [Syncthing](https://syncthing.net)'s community-driven Android port known as Syncthing-Fork underwent a strange change. The original developer's GitHub repository for Syncthing-Fork now redirects to a new place, and it us unclear why or how the repository was handed over to another team. See [this F-Droid blog post](https://f-droid.org/en/2025/11/27/twif.html) which links to this [GitHub issue](https://github.com/researchxxl/syncthing-android/issues/16) and [this syncthing.net forum thread](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/does-anyone-know-why-syncthing-fork-is-no-longer-available-on-github/25661). While there doesn't seem to be any malicious code in the new repository as I'm writing this, the circumstances behind this sudden shift in developer made some people, including myself, uneasy and led to be exploring an alternative.
+Over the last few days, [Syncthing](https://syncthing.net)'s community-driven Android port known as Syncthing-Fork underwent a strange change. The original developer's GitHub repository for Syncthing-Fork now redirects to a new place, and it is unclear why or how the repository was handed over the another team. See [this F-Droid blog post](https://f-droid.org/en/2025/11/27/twif.html) which links to this [GitHub issue](https://github.com/researchxxl/syncthing-android/issues/16) and [this syncthing.net forum thread](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/does-anyone-know-why-syncthing-fork-is-no-longer-available-on-github/25661). While there doesn't seem to be any malicious code in the new repository as I'm writing this, the circumstances behind this sudden shift in developer made some people, including myself, uneasy, and led to me searching for an alternative.
It just so happens that [Termux](https://termux.dev/en/), everyone's favorite Android terminal emulator app that effectively functions as its own Linux distribution of sorts, has a package for Syncthing. Now, the setup process isn't exactly the most user-friendly. While the original (now discontinued) Syncthing Android port and subsequently Syncthing-Fork are definitely nicer wrappers that integrate better into the Android environment, this didn't stop me from exploring this path.