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SyncMate Review: Keep Your Digital Life in Sync

While for the most part, we as Android users rely on Google services to keep our devices and accounts synced up, for those of us that use macOS everything doesn’t always play nicely together, enter SyncMate. The app is designed to allow you to sync data from a whole host of devices and services to and from your Mac. Most Mac owners rely on iTunes to handle this kind of thing for them, but SyncMate is considerably more versatile than iTunes, easier to use and critically for us actually supports Android devices.

What services are supported?

You can use SyncMate to sync with Android devices, Google accounts, iOS devices, additional Mac computers, external hard drives, Dropbox, iCloud, MTP Devices and/or Microsoft Services (Outlook, Office 365, One Drive). The volume of options available is one of the key features of SyncMate as again we are well past the point that simply keeping a single device in sync with your computer is relevant, it’s managing your entire digital life that’s a challenge.

What can I sync?

The options available will vary depending on the device or service that you are syncing with your Mac, but the full list includes:

When you add a new connection you’ll be prompted to choose which of the above you would like to have the option to sync and they will appear as tabs on the screen for that device/service. You can always add or remove an option in the future, so don’t worry if you miss something.

How can I sync?

Again this is going to depend on which device/service you are syncing, in the case of cloud services anytime an internet connection is available you can choose to have everything sync up. For a device like my Pixel 3 you can connect via USB-C, WiFi or Bluetooth. At the time of this review, the Android app was temporarily unavailable in the Play Store, you can sideload the APK directly from Eltima until the app is restored to the Play Store, which Eltima has indicated should be soon.

How Much is It?

There is a free version of SyncMate, but it is limited to syncing Calendar and Contacts, which as an Android owner you are almost certainly comfortable with Google handling. The Expert version is available for download and purchase on their site and it brings with it all of the rest of the features we covered above for a one-time fee of $39.95 for up to 2 Macs (Personal), $59.95 for up to 6 Macs (Family), $99.95 for up to 10 Macs (Business) or Unlimited Macs for $199.95 (Unlimited). You can add support for lifetime upgrades to each plan for $11.99 (Personal), $17.98 (Family), $29.99 (Business), and $59.98 (Unlimited). As always I find the one-time fee refreshing, my subscription fatigue is pretty significant these days.

Verdict

While I wouldn’t buy this app strictly to sync up my Mac with my Android device, my photos are basically the only thing on my phone that I’m too paranoid to allow only Google to maintain a backup for me, I think there is real value to this app for syncing your digital life across all of your various devices and services. I absolutely have occasions where I accidentally put something in the wrong calendar and it may as well have disappeared at that point, whereas with SyncMate the app would simply get everything back in line for me without my even noticing. It certainly takes a little time on the front end to get everything set up and syncing in the right direction, but once you’re done it’s just quietly running in the background and keeping you organized without another thought from you.

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