{"id":39894,"date":"2013-04-23T16:50:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T14:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=39894"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:29:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:29:48","slug":"try-bittorrent-sync-now-in-public-alpha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/try-bittorrent-sync-now-in-public-alpha\/","title":{"rendered":"Try BitTorrent Sync, now in public Alpha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"bittorrent-sync-windows.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-39895\" title=\"BitTorrent Sync \" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/04\/BitTorrent-Sync-logo-256px1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/strong><strong>BitTorrent Sync<\/strong><\/a> has just entered the open Alpha stage of development, so anyone can try it. It allows you to s<strong>ync folders between several computers<\/strong>. It&#8217;s competing with <a href=\"http:\/\/dropbox.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Dropbox<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"google-drive.en.softonic.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Google Drive<\/strong><\/a>, as it allows you to easily move and share files.<\/p>\n<p>It uses the BitTorrent peer to peer protocol for syncing. This means it can be a little slow to start, but then it&#8217;s likely to be much faster than apps like DropBox, where you rely on their server speeds. Every folder you want to sync gets it&#8217;s own &#8216;<strong>secret<\/strong>&#8216;, basically a password which is necessary if you want to view the folder on another machine. It&#8217;s a neat way of sharing or syncing privately.<\/p>\n<p>Watch our video overview of the service:<\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of Brightcove Player --><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\nBy use of this code snippet, I agree to the Brightcove Publisher T and C \nfound at https:\/\/accounts.brightcove.com\/en\/terms-and-conditions\/. \n--><\/p>\n<p><object><\/object><\/p>\n<p><!-- \nThis script tag will cause the Brightcove Players defined above it to be created as soon\nas the line is read by the browser. If you wish to have the player instantiated only after\nthe rest of the HTML is processed and the page load is complete, remove the line.\n--><br \/>\nbrightcove.createExperiences();<\/p>\n<p><!-- End of Brightcove Player --><\/p>\n<p>As the service is in open alpha, there may be bugs, and more features will undoubtedly be added as BitTorrent Sync develops.<\/p>\n<p>Join the Alpha <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.bittorrent.com\/experiments\/sync.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<br \/>\nCheck out our full guide: <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/how-to-use-bittorrent-sync\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>How to use BitTorrent Sync<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BitTorrent Sync has just entered the open Alpha stage of development, so anyone can try it. It allows you to sync folders between several computers. It&#8217;s competing with Dropbox and Google Drive, as it allows you to easily move and share files. It uses the BitTorrent peer to peer protocol for syncing. This means it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/try-bittorrent-sync-now-in-public-alpha\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Try BitTorrent Sync, now in public Alpha&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2623],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-39894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionbittorrent"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333055,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39894\/revisions\/333055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39894"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=39894"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=39894"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=39894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}