{"id":77147,"date":"2014-11-19T20:59:26","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T18:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=77147"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:20:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:20:49","slug":"bittorrent-sync-will-take-on-dropbox-drive-and-onedrive-with-pro-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/bittorrent-sync-will-take-on-dropbox-drive-and-onedrive-with-pro-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"BitTorrent Sync will take on Dropbox, Drive and OneDrive with Pro edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Popular file syncing and sharing app, <a title=\"BitTorrent Sync for Windows\" href=\"http:\/\/bittorrent-sync-windows.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BitTorrent Sync<\/a>, will be offering a <strong>Pro edition<\/strong> for $40 per year in early 2015. The company teased the redesigned Sync 2.0 update, which will still offer a free plan for its users.<\/p>\n<p>Sync Pro will offer <strong>collaborative tools<\/strong> that enterprises will find useful. &#8220;Capabilities like having access to very large folders, controlling ownership and permissions for shared folders, and keeping information automatically consistent across your desktop and mobile devices will now be possible,&#8221; writes BitTorrent VP of Product Management Erik Pounds.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-77149\" title=\"BitTorrenty Sync 2.0\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/11\/Sync-2.0-Screenshot-2A-568x463.png\" alt=\"BitTorrenty Sync 2.0 permissions and ownership\" width=\"568\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/11\/Sync-2.0-Screenshot-2A-568x463.png 568w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/11\/Sync-2.0-Screenshot-2A-256x209.png 256w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/11\/Sync-2.0-Screenshot-2A.png 851w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Compared to traditional cloud-based storage services like Dropbox, Box, Drive, and OneDrive, BitTorrent Sync Pro offers a lot of advantages. <strong>The biggest seller is security<\/strong>; no data is stored on a company&#8217;s server so your files won&#8217;t be managed by a middle-man.<\/p>\n<p>BitTorrent Sync also offers &#8220;unlimited&#8221; storage because the amount of storage provided depends on the size of your servers and computers. This also makes sending huge files possible since they won&#8217;t need to be compressed before sharing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-77150\" title=\"BitTorrent Sync 2.0\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/11\/Sync-2.0-Screenshot-1A-568x464.png\" alt=\"BitTorrent Sync 2.0 on-demand\" width=\"568\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/11\/Sync-2.0-Screenshot-1A-568x464.png 568w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/11\/Sync-2.0-Screenshot-1A-256x209.png 256w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/11\/Sync-2.0-Screenshot-1A.png 849w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pricing for Sync Pro is also attractive. At <strong>$40 per year<\/strong>, it costs less than half of what most cloud storage services charge.<\/p>\n<p>Sync 2.0 and the Pro edition will launch <strong>early 2015<\/strong> but you can sign up to test a beta before its release.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Download BitTorrent Sync<\/strong>: <a title=\"BitTorrent Sync for Android\" href=\"http:\/\/bittorrent-sync.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android<\/a> | <a title=\"BitTorrent Sync for iOS\" href=\"http:\/\/bittorrent-sync.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iOS<\/a> | <a title=\"BitTorrent Sync for Mac\" href=\"http:\/\/bittorrent-sync.en.softonic.com\/mac\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mac<\/a> | <a title=\"BitTorrent Sync for Windows\" href=\"http:\/\/bittorrent-sync-windows.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Windows<\/a> | <a title=\"BitTorrent Sync for Windows Phone\" href=\"http:\/\/en.softonic.com\/ie\/69679745\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Windows Phone<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a title=\"BitTorrent\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.bittorrent.com\/2014\/11\/19\/what-to-expect-next-from-sync\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BitTorrent<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Chrome for Mac 64-bit finally goes stable\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/chrome-for-mac-64-bit-finally-goes-stable\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chrome for Mac 64-bit finally goes stable<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Malware being spread through Steam chat\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/malware-being-spread-through-steam-chat\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Malware being spread through Steam chat<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"End to end user encryption coming to WhatsApp\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/end-to-end-user-encryption-coming-to-whatsapp\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">End to end user encryption coming to WhatsApp<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/facebook-releases-new-groups-app-for-collaboration\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/facebook-releases-new-groups-app-for-collaboration\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook releases new Groups app for collaboration<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em>Follow me on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lewisleong\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@lewisleong<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular file syncing and sharing app, BitTorrent Sync, will be offering a Pro edition for $40 per year in early 2015. The company teased the redesigned Sync 2.0 update, which will still offer a free plan for its users. Sync Pro will offer collaborative tools that enterprises will find useful. &#8220;Capabilities like having access to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/bittorrent-sync-will-take-on-dropbox-drive-and-onedrive-with-pro-edition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BitTorrent Sync will take on Dropbox, Drive and OneDrive with Pro edition&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":77152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2659],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-77147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiondropbox"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77147","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\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329810,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77147\/revisions\/329810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77147"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=77147"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=77147"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=77147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}