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This is the offer:

"The beta version of Duple is now available. You can download it and use it for free. However if you’d like to participate in the Duple beta program, and get a lifetime discount as a reward, click here."

But I don't understand what we are paying for going forward. Presumably you pay for the software once. Is there a recurring charge of some sort? What for? If the software is on premise, you can't really turn it off or stop it from working.

Does duple, the company, ever touch the data?

If privacy is the killer feature, it seems that an open source version will ultimately displace this.

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Better to use syncthing, simple equivalent & free / open source.

Agreed. This just feels like closed-source syncthing.

Syncthing is great (I use it for all my syncing needs), but it's scope is limited. It doesn't really solve file sharing in a user-friendly way.

While I agree Syncthing is about seamlessly syncing files with devices you own, not file sharing as such, it does a good 98% of what this program offers with a more open source background and is completely free.

I share files, what, once a year? Syncthing works great for that use case. If I want to share files too big to email, I can stand to upload to Onedrive/Dropbox/an open directory on my web server for that one-time use. For more frequent setups, sure an Owncloud/Nextcloud instance wouldn't be amiss.

Oh I wasn't arguing in favor of using this. I doubt I'll ever use non open software for my data again. Just saying I've run into problems trying to use syncthing for sharing files.

No offense intended or taken, you and are I are in complete agreement re: what software should be touching our data.

I believe you when you say you've had problems performing file shares to arbitrary people, my comments were directed only that my use case is somewhat different.

Cheers!

It's free now, but you have to enter a magic code. The code expires in a month or so and then you'll need a new code, which will presumably cost money. So it's a free trial.

I found this in the FAQs:

> We will have in the future our own dynamic DNS name service that will be included in the app price, so people don't have to pay for it with another company if they don't want to.

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