Which is the best way to sync Obsidian: Syncthing or Cryptomator?

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Recently, I have switched over to Obsidian from Notion due to its open-source nature; however, its lack of syncing has always proved to be a problem for me. I prefer to not use Obsidian Sync—as it is paid—and other closed-source cloud providers, like Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, etc., as they do not provide proper end-to-end encryption.

This has caused a dilemma for me, as I am looking for a service that is focused on privacy and security and open-source nature. Ultimately, I boiled down my options to Cryptomator and Syncthing. Nevertheless, I am confused about which service to try out: what are the pros and cons of each aforementioned service, and which service best suits my use case?

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It depends on whether you are willing to pay or not and what you want from your sync service. Now the sync service is NOT A BACKUP SERVICE.

Just a big thing, you should still back up your vault which is just a folder with files in it.

Side note: have you googled this question at all? There are TONS of posts with this same question… best way to sync obsidian - Google Search

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Cryptomator is not sync. It is just handling the on-disk encryption layer. You would still need a sync service to sync those encrypted files (syncthing or otherwise).

What devices you are trying to sync will determine what your options are. I don’t believe there is a way to use Cryptomator with iOS currently (for Obsidain).

Syncthing would be the way to go if iOS is in play (if thats what you’re after I will shill my own post here: Sync Mac/PC and iOS using Syncthing + Möbius Sync )

You could also go with the Obsidian Livesync plugin which offers some form of E2EE

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I apologise for my ignorance and I thank you for your clarification and advice.

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