Thank you! What’s the shortcomings of the web app? And did you have any problems syncing with Thunderbird at all or smooth sailing?
I think Etesync was removed as a PG recommendation a while ago with people saying that it only worked well on Android but not on other platforms. Maybe that’s been improved now and if so, a re-listing could be considered in the future.
It’s alpha quality in terms of performance, featureset and development.
etesync-dav syncs with Thunderbird but there’s up to 10s latency when updating events which can be annoying.
It looks like there have been zero updates to the desktop bridge and iOS apps since I stopped using the service, which means the issues I identified here are still present.
It’s not reliable. Android is the only platform where it works as advertised. After losing important changes/additions to my calendar multiple times (and almost missing an event because of it) I moved on.
This was a great service. Sad to see the current state, but a good reminder of the importance of being able to migrate away from a service provider smoothly. Might be worth emphasizing this concept and ways to plan for it at the outset in the Recommendations.
I would like to add another con to the list:
Can I bump this for any updates? Has the community found anything yet that isnt Nextcloud or EteSync?
Is Proton Calendar our only alternative for a private and secure sync right now?
It is available on desktop now but only as an electron app. I was hoping for better OS integration for GNOME at least but I’m sure the electron app doesnt allow for that.
Hi,
Just chiming in to see what’s up on this topic. I am currently using Nextcloud for file sync and calendars. Since I am not making any use of the rest of the functionalities and am always having sync issues with the nextcloud clients, I would really like to move. For files, that’s a work in progress, but I have options. For calendars, however, I am a little lost (contacts are not needed because I just have them locally). A temp plan is to revert back to iCloud, since it is now E2EE (which it wasn’t when I moved to Nextcloud), but that’s not a long-term solution, as I also want to move away from the Apple ecosystem altogether and ditch my Apple ID when I move to Linux. Sooooo… what are my options?
PS: Proton calendar is out there, but since I do not use the rest of their products (and don’t particular fancy Proton anyway) that’s not really an option.
Not for calendar, contacts and email though 
Ah f*ck! Must have gotten confused with reminders and notes or something.
Well, there goes my temp plan.
Just want to mention that I’m currently using the 14-days trial and synchronisation between a Debian laptop and a LOS smartphone works without any flaws.
To me the service does not seem to be dead at all!
Android was always the one platform where EteSync seemed to mostly work as advertised. But give it time and you’ll probably encounter the same reliability issues that have been around for years.
Well, this is live. People come, people go. Same with services; one day the service is thriving, the other its gone.
This is just the way this world operates I think…
Really enjoying native synced tuta contacts!
Calendar needs an overhaul right about now. If nobody else is doing it I may take matters into my hands lol.
Calendly but e2ee with some teams ops feel it.
Few days ago I’ve seen EteSync rapidly post new updates. I am not sure if its author Tom Hacohen is going to commit to keep the code updated this time around.
So now that 2024 is ending and 2025 is almost upon us, do we have a proper EteSync Replacement now?
Does Tutanota have a solution for E2EE Contacts and Calendar Sync?
The contacts even has native android/iphone contacts sync!
What about calendar and tasks?
Thx. I need to two-way sync my calendars and contacts with end-devices (Android and Linux), so they can work when being offline. in the case of Android it should sync to Android’s calendar/contacts storage, so I can make it accessible to other apps. Does this work with Peergos?
For android you can just use davx5 to sync caldav and carddav via any dav provider. For free providers theres disroot and vivaldi, or you can selfhost nextcloud. For calendar view theres the fossify calendar. Davx5 + fossify calendar works wonderfully well.