Workspaces
Keep work, family and projects in separate folders, each with its own sharing and cloud settings.
Features
Everything it does. Nothing it reads.
What ShieldSync does with your files, and how it does it. One app for Windows, macOS and Linux.
01 — Nearby
Straight from one computer to the next.
Why send a file to a server in another country just to bring it back to the computer across the room? ShieldSync notices when your devices share a network and moves files directly between them, at the speed of your own network.
- Works with the internet down
- No account needed between your own devices
- Only the changed pieces of a file move
02 — Cloud
A vault we can't open.
When your computers are far apart, ShieldSync goes through your cloud instead. Every file is encrypted on your device with AES-256 before it uploads, and its name is hidden too. The keys are made on your device and never sent to us, so we could not read your files if we wanted to.
- 5 GB free, more on a plan
- Encrypted connections for every transfer
- A computer that was off catches up when it is back
03 — Online-only
Every file in sight, none filling your disk.
Files kept in your cloud still show in File Explorer and Finder, with their real names and sizes. Open one and it downloads on the spot. Mark a folder to keep it on this computer for good.
- Built into File Explorer and Finder
- Free up space on any folder
- On Personal and Pro
04 — History
Wind any file back.
When a newer copy of a file arrives from another of your computers, or from someone you share with, ShieldSync keeps the one it replaced. Open the file’s history to bring it back. And anything you delete waits in Deleted before it goes, so a slip of the hand is not the end of it.
- 30 days of history on Personal, a year on Pro
- Deleted files kept 30 days on Free
- Restore with one click
05 — Sharing
Share with people, not with us.
Invite someone by email, hand a folder to a device in the same room, or send a guest link. A link carries its key after the #, a part of the address that browsers never send to a server, so the person you send it to can open it in any browser, without an account, and not even we can see what it is.
- View or edit, chosen per person
- Stop sharing any time; nothing is deleted
- Guest links expire when you say: 3 at a time free, 50 on a plan
Guest links are made in the desktop app. Sending straight from this website is coming later.
And the rest
The small things you notice later.
Every one of these is in the app today.
Sync direction
Let a folder send only, receive only, or both, per folder.
A pause per device
Stop syncing one folder with one device without touching the rest.
Ignore patterns
Leave build output, caches and anything else you name out of a folder’s sync.
Activity
See who changed what, and when, on every item you share.
Conflict copies
Two people edit the same file at once? Both versions are kept, side by side, nothing overwritten.
Stop any transfer
Started a 5 GB upload by mistake? Stop it from the transfers list; nothing is lost.
Starts with your computer
ShieldSync runs quietly in the tray and keeps folders current in the background.
Your password stays put
Sign-in sends a verifier made from your password, never the password itself.
Works with
The tools you already use.
Your files stay in ordinary folders, so every app you have already works with ShieldSync. Nothing to change about how you work.
Windows
File Explorer
Online-only files appear in Explorer with their real names, and right-clicking an item offers ShieldSync’s actions.
macOS
Finder
Each workspace appears as a location in Finder, with files that download when you open them.
Linux
Your file manager
Workspaces are ordinary folders that every Linux file manager and app can use.
Every app
Anything that saves files
Editors, design tools, IDEs and games: if it saves to a folder, ShieldSync keeps that folder in sync.
Planned
S3-compatible access
Reach your encrypted cloud from scripts and tools that speak S3.
Planned
Headless servers
Run ShieldSync on a NAS or a home server without a desktop.
