Welcome to the products page for Mergeall, a cross-platform tool for syncing content folders. Mergeall is both a GUI and a script, does both incremental backups and fast change propagation, and can serve as a manual but private alternative to cloud storage. With Mergeall, your stuff is your property, not someone else's point of control. For a quick tour of Mergeall's features, see its User Guide's Introducing Mergeall, its PC screenshots, and its Android how-to. New: as of May-2023, Mergeall's tkinter GUI has been superseded on all platforms by the new PC-Phone USB Sync standalone app hosted here. The new app embeds and uses Mergeall, but codes its GUI in Kivy to support Android apps and permissions; see ahead. New: Mergeall 3.3 was rereleased in Oct-2022 in all its download packages below, with improved path normalization for Unicode variants. New: Mergeall 3.3 was released in Mar-2022, with Unicode normalization for filename matching, and minor GUI and report mods. All download packages below were rebuilt to use 3.3, and include 3.2's changes.
New:
Mergeall 3.2 was released in Oct-2021 in the source-code package only,
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Mergeall runs on macOS (f.k.a. Mac OS X), Windows, Linux, and Android. It's available as a platform-specific macOS app, Windows 64-bit exe, and Linux executable, plus a complete source-code package that runs on all four platforms. Click the download link below to fetch the package you wish to use. The app, exe, and executable may be easier to install and run, but source code can be studied, runs where others do not, is required on Android today, and nullifies some of the issues covered by the next section's pointers.
macOS app | ☞ | Download Mergeall.app.zip |
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Windows exe | ☞ | Download Mergeall-64bit.zip |
Linux executable | ☞ | Download Mergeall.zip |
Source-code package | ☞ | Download Mergeall-source.zip |
Though not normally needed, the prior versions of any of the above are
available with a "prev-" name suffix on the full products page
here.
For example, fetch prev-Mergeall.app.zip
for the
prior 3.1 build of the macOS app.
For more details on Mergeall's download packages, as well as their complete install and usage instructions, see the main README.txt. In brief, you'll fetch, unzip, and run either the unzipped app itself (macOS), a same-named executable inside the unzip (Windows and Linux), or the program's main script in the unzipped source code (all platforms).
The latest getting-started pointers:
Mojave users: see also this to fix crashes and blank windows caused by macOS dark mode.
Apple M-chip users: the Rosetta 2 emulator is required to run the app package, but not source code.
Update: per 2023 vetting on macOS Ventura, launching the latest app package still works, but has been largely superseded by PC-Phone USB Sync, ahead.
Command-line users: be sure to also see the PYTHONIOENCODING
note
here.
32-bit users: you cannot run the 64-bit package, but can run the source code, fetch 3.1's 32-bit build, or make an executable of your own with the build script.
Update: as of 2023, this program's app and source-code have now been vetted to work well on Windows 11, in addition to 7, 8, and 10.
Android 11+ users: per this and this, changes in USB access in your platform largely invalidate the preceding paragraph's GUI and command-line options. As a workaround, an alternative set of scripts for Android 11 and later automate Mergeall runs to sync content from PC to phone indirectly. See here and here for details. The new app of the next section later superseded this workaround.
Android 12+ users: a process killer added in Android 12 may also impose additional steps for long-running Mergeall tasks; details here. The new app of the next section lessens this risk with foreground services.
Update: in 2023, Pydroid 3's version 6 imposed extra constraints for running this program on Android; see the coverage here and here. Since this program lost USB access earlier, it was already nonfunctional in Pydroid 3 before this change.
On all PC platforms, Mergeall's former tkinter GUI is still usable, but the new app's PC versions are strongly recommended. They avoid most of the Mergeall GUI's PC perils listed above, and provide both more functionality, and an interface consistent with the Android app. For additional info, see the app's page, the prefaces added to now-superseded pages like this, and the coverage here and here.
For a preview of Mergeall in action, visit its screenshots page.
For information on using Mergeall, explore its User Guide.
For highlights of Mergeall's releases, view its recent changes.
For Mergeall's full source code online, browse its unzipped code.
For help on using Mergeall on Android phones, see this page.
For more tips and updates, see the support page and older list.
For more on Mergeall's change detection, see the demo.