About SyncShot
SyncShotis a macOS utility built by one person — a photographer — for offloading and backing up the work of other photographers and filmmakers. No team, no investors, no roadmap written in someone else's slide deck.
Why I built it
Every shoot ended the same way. Plug in a card. Drag a folder. Wait. Launch a second tool to verify checksums. Drag to a backup. Wait again. Copy to cloud. Wait some more. Most offload tools I tried felt like a task manager standing between me and the work.
I wanted a tool that reads the situation and decides for itself: fastest disk first, slower disks and cloud fed from there, verified as it writes, one read of the card. Quiet. Few surfaces. Confident. SyncShot is that tool — the version I wanted for my own shoots, now polished enough to hand to you.
How it's built
- Native macOS — Swift and SwiftUI for the interface. No Electron, no cross-platform wrapper. Feels like a Mac app because it is one.
- Rust engine — the copy path and verification are implemented in Rust for speed and memory safety.
- Go conductor — the queue, the pipeline graph, and the cloud destinations are orchestrated by a Go service that runs entirely on your Mac.
- Open protocols — AFC for iPhone, ADB for Android, DiskArbitration for volumes. Nothing proprietary is required to read a card.
What I don't do
- I do not upload your files to my servers. Ever.
- I do not include third-party analytics or ads in the app.
- I do not train on your photos, videos, or anything else.
- I do not keep a usage telemetry pipeline running in the background.
Who I am
My name is MD. AL-AMIN TALUKDAR. I'm a photographer — I shoot weddings, quiet landscapes, the occasional commercial job — and I write software. SyncShot is the product of both: the problem comes from one life, the solution from the other. I operate as an individual seller from Dhaka, Bangladesh.
There is no team behind the curtain. “We” in the legal pages is a convention of formal English, not a claim about headcount. When you email hello@syncshot.io, the reply comes from the same person who wrote the code.