EteSync 4+

This is exactly what I’ve been looking for to sync my contacts and reminders privately without having to have to use iCloud and feed Apple all of my personal data. I just couldn’t get it to work after many hours of trial and error to successfully sync. Perhaps some updates and it will work flawlessly and I will certainly come back to try again and very willing to pay to have the service work swimmingly to sync E2E between my devices. Love the concept!

I so, so, wanted this to work. The idea is great. But, I have been troubleshooting issues with setting it up on my iPhone, iPad, and Mac for the past two days. I got close, alas I am at the limit of my willingness to tinker with it any further. On my Mac I got the calendar and reminders working, but contacts stopped working. I finally got all three working on my iPhone. I’m still having issues with Contacts on my iPad.

I will check back in with this service in a year or two to see if most of the quirkiness has been worked out. When it has, I will sign up and try to get everyone I know to sign up.

Hats off to you for tackling this project. I think this is a big and important idea. I wish you all the best of luck! I really think this could be a huge success! Every main stream news outlet could be talking about, and recommending, this in a few years!

It’s a really great idea and I wish it worked well with iphone. Unfortunately, in my case, since synching with iphone I have contacts disappearing and some events on my iphone calendar broke the sync with my desktop app. E.g. a contact I used just yesterday disappeared and there’s no trace of a change in the app changes log. Reinstalling and starting fresh new contact lists doesn’t solve all the problems. I reported the problem but it’s very difficult to characterize when these things happen so difficult to reproduce. It’s 5++ stars for what they’re trying to do, but it least in my experience it’s not there yet.