Skymir
Google Drive sync for Linux
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Details
- External ID
- 1265048
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Skymir
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 84
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.98
- Tags
- Linux, Productivity, Storage
Description
Skymir mirrors your Google Drive folders to Linux with two-way sync, double-click Google Docs shortcuts, and a native GTK tray. Local saves upload within seconds; changes made in Drive arrive within about a minute. Deletes go to the trash on both sides, and a sync that would delete more than half your files is refused. $19 one-time, 14-day free trial, no subscription.
Enrichment
- Niche
- cloud storage and backup management tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- google drive file sync client for linux
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Building a reliable bi-directional file synchronization engine that handles race conditions, file locks, network interrupts, and conflict resolution is notoriously difficult despite a simple UI.
What it would actually take: A daemon written in Go or Rust utilizing inotify for Linux filesystem monitoring and Google Drive's Changes API for remote diffing, paired with a GTK tray UI. The hard parts are edge-case-heavy two-way sync algorithms (handling race conditions, symlinks, permissions, atomic saves, chunked uploads) and robust state tracking in a local SQLite database.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 54 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1 of 55 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 254 days after the earliest competitor.
- byosynch · ph · 2026-09-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Drive Share · ph · 2026-09-10 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- DriveSync · hn · 2026-09-08 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Cloud Dock TV · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- immich-gphotos · github · 2026-09-17 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Universal Cloud Migrator · ph · 2026-10-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Proton Drive for Linux · hn · 2026-10-08 · 120 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- OmniDesk · ph · 2026-09-10 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.41
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