Passive background sync
Run rbox daemon start once and it runs quietly in the background, streaming changes across every machine in real time — source, configs, and the messy in-progress work between commits. Set it and forget it.
Sync what you want, ignore what you don't. Start it once and it runs in the background — your files fully encrypted, your dependencies and build output ignored.
$ rbox daemon start
● passive sync on · watching ~/code/api · 3 machines
source + configs streaming live
node_modules, dist/ ignored out of the box
$ rbox ignore "*.env" # keep secrets on this machine
✓ added to .rboxignore · the ignore list syncs too
$ rbox status
● synced 2s ago · idle · your CPU stays quietNo accounts to wire up first, no config to write. Run it, sign in, and point rbox at a directory.
curl -fsSL https://rbox.to/install.sh | shWorks on macOS and Linux. Windows via WSL.
File sync was designed for documents and photos. rbox is designed for repositories — it knows what's regenerable, what's secret, and what git is doing under the hood.
Run rbox daemon start once and it runs quietly in the background, streaming changes across every machine in real time — source, configs, and the messy in-progress work between commits. Set it and forget it.
Your files are encrypted on your machine before they sync — our servers never see your code. Secrets like .env and keys are excluded by default.
Your uncommitted index, stash, and detached HEAD travel with you by default — end-to-end encrypted via git bundle. Pick up on any machine exactly where you left off.
node_modules, build output, and caches are skipped automatically — and a one-line .rboxignore lets you exclude anything else: secrets, logs, scratch files, whatever. Your ignore rules sync across machines too.
Not Dropbox. Not Syncthing. Both happily ship the gigabytes of dependencies you can rebuild from a lockfile, and neither understands an uncommitted git index. rbox reconstructs deps locally and moves working git state with git bundle — and the daemon stays a polite background citizen, so it won't peg your CPU mid npm ci.
Because rbox never syncs your dependencies, your quota goes a lot further than it would anywhere else.
Need more room? + $3/mo per extra 100 GB on any paid plan.
Close the laptop, open the desktop, keep typing. That's the whole pitch.