SyncDAW
SyncDAW keeps everyone in the mix.
Version control for music — synced across your machines and collaborators, encrypted so only you can open it.
How SyncDAW works
Your browser is the control center. The desktop app is the secure pipe. End-to-end encryption requires your encryption key, which lives on your device — never in the browser, never on our servers.
🌐 Web app webapp.syncdaw.com
The dashboard for everything you can do without touching file bytes.
- Browse projects, versions, and notes
- Manage collabs and members
- Send and accept end-to-end encrypted invites
- One-click trigger: Sync, Pull, or Play launches the desktop app
- View audit logs and version history
- Edit profile, reset web password, manage 2FA
💻 Desktop app macOS™ + Windows™
Where the actual encryption and file transfer happens. Your encryption key never leaves your device.
- Sync 2 GB projects in seconds — only changed chunks transfer
- Named, atomic versions — never partial uploads
- Files encrypted client-side before they leave your machine
- Automatic backup before every pull
- Click-to-sync from the web app
- Auto-creates local folder on first sync
- Reopens your last project on launch
- Moved your folder? SyncDAW™ finds it
- Sync runs in background with notifications
- Folder mappings remembered server-side per device
Why SyncDAW doesn't auto-sync — and why that's the point
Dropbox™ and Google Drive™ can sync a shared folder. But they sync continuously and silently, and for DAW projects that causes real damage.
Mid-mix saves upload half-finished sessions
Your collaborator pulls a broken project. SyncDAW pushes only when you choose — every version is complete and atomic.
No more "conflicted copy" files
Two people open the same project on autosync and you get duplicate files everywhere. SyncDAW's check-out lock prevents the conflict before it happens.
One named version per deliberate push
Auto-save spams history every 30 seconds. SyncDAW keeps "v12 — added vocal comp," not "project (3) (conflicted).als."
Rename a 500MB sample, upload zero bytes
Other tools re-upload the whole file. SyncDAW's hash-based dedup recognizes the same content under a new name and skips the upload entirely.
Logic & Pro Tools™ packages stay intact
DAW package files have nested writes that race continuous sync. SyncDAW syncs after the DAW releases the file, never during a write.
Owner pays once. Collaborators don't pay at all.
A 1 GB project saved 10 times shared with 3 collaborators uses ~1.2 GB on SyncDAW (deduplicated) — vs 30 GB of Dropbox™ quota burned across their accounts.
Built to be there at the deadline
Composers don't deliver on a relaxed schedule — you deliver at 11pm against a brief that's due at midnight. SyncDAW is built to always be up when you need it.
Our infrastructure runs across multiple independent servers in the US and Canada, spread across different hosting providers — so a regional outage or a single provider's bad day doesn't take your access down. Databases are replicated across four servers with automatic failover; the application runs on three. If one node fails, another takes over without you noticing.
Your work is yours, and it's there when the clock is running.
Security First
We take security seriously because we know you take your music seriously. SyncDAW uses end-to-end encryption — the same principle as a private messenger. Your files are encrypted on your device before they ever reach us, and only your collaborators hold the keys to open them.
End-to-end encrypted — even we can't read your work
Your project files are encrypted on your machine, and only the members of a collab can decrypt them. We store nothing but ciphertext. Even if our servers were breached, your music would be unreadable — not to an attacker, and not to us. SyncDAW staff cannot view, decrypt, or recover your files. That's by design.
Your keys never leave your device
Each collab has its own encryption key, shared securely between its members. Those keys live on your devices — in your system keychain — never on our servers. Add a collaborator and the key is shared to them directly; remove one and their access ends. We're never in the middle.
Two layers, kept separate
Your web login (with optional two-factor via any authenticator app) unlocks your account and lets you browse version history, notes, and project info. But viewing that metadata is all a login can do — opening the actual files requires your encryption key, which we never hold. So even your own web account can't expose your audio.
Lost your Master Key? A collab member can restore your access
On Mac, your Master Key is stored in your system Keychain and syncs to iCloud Keychain automatically — so it follows you across your Apple devices. Install SyncDAW on more than one device and each becomes an additional backup: the Master Key is already there. If you lose access to all your devices, generate a new Master Key on any new device, then ask any active collab member to re-share the collab key to you through the app. Your access is fully restored — no SyncDAW involvement required.
Coming soon: SyncDAW Vault — a mobile app for iOS and Android to securely store your Master Key separately from your Mac or PC.
Audit trail
Every action is logged with timestamps and attribution — pushes, pulls, check-outs, and member changes. You always know who did what and when. (We can see that a version was pushed; we can't see what's in it.)
Works With Any DAW
Share complete projects or just stems and tracks
Share full DAW projects, stems, multitrack sessions, or any audio files.
If it's a folder or ZIP, SyncDAW can handle it.
Get Started
Use the web app instantly — desktop app available by invite