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All your files. None of the space.

Dinghy puts everything from your computers on your phone — every folder, every file — and downloads only the ones you actually open.

Free · Android 8 and up · No account needed

Photos › 2024 › Iceland
Jökulsárlón.raw On phone
Reykjavík-harbour.raw 62 MB
Highlands-drive.mp4 1.4 GB
packing-list.txt On phone
Vestrahorn-sunrise.raw 58 MB
51,284Files visible
2On the phone
31 KBSpace used

Why it's different

Most sync apps make you choose. This one doesn't.

Normally you pick which folders to put on your phone, and whatever you pick has to fit. Dinghy skips that bargain: you get the whole list, and the files follow when you ask for them.

See everything

A library that weighs nothing

Your phone learns what exists on your other devices without downloading any of it. Browse the whole tree — fifty thousand files if that's what you have — while the folder sits there using a few dozen kilobytes.

Nothing is hidden behind a "sync this folder?" decision you have to make in advance.

Documents
Archive12,904 files
Contracts318 files
Scans4,551 files
Tax1,077 files
18,850 files listed — 27 KB of storageBrowsing costs nothing
Open on demand

Play a film that isn't on your phone

Tap a document, a photo or a two-hour video and it starts straight away — the parts you're reading or watching arrive as you go. No waiting for a whole folder to come down first, and no half-gigabyte left behind afterwards unless you want it.

Highlands-drive.mp4 Streaming from Desktop
Everywhere you'd look

It shows up inside your other apps

Your synced folders appear wherever Android lets you pick a file. Attach a scan to an email, open a PDF in your reader, pick a photo in a chat — Dinghy is simply one of the places you can choose from, search included.

Files that were never downloaded work there too.

Choose a file from…
Gallery
Files
Dinghy
Mail
Offline when it counts

Pin the things you can't be without

Boarding passes, sheet music, the folder you need on the plane — flip a switch and Dinghy keeps those on the phone and up to date. Everything else stays a tap away, for whenever you have signal.

Keep on this phone
Travel 20268 MB
Sheet music44 MB
Photos › 202496 GB
Archive1.2 TB

Good to know

The quieter things

It keeps up while you're away

Dinghy carries on in the background without the six-hour cut-off that stops other sync apps mid-job.

Only when you say so

Restrict it to Wi-Fi you don't pay by the megabyte for, or to moments when the phone is charging.

No middleman

Your devices find each other and transfer directly. There is no account to create and no company holding your files.

Works with what you already run

Dinghy speaks Syncthing, the free sync tool many people already use on their computers. Add the phone as a device and your folders appear.

Put it on your phone

Download the file, open it, and let Android install it. Nothing to sign up for, nothing to pay, nothing to switch off afterwards.