Toucan

Name: Toucan
Rating: 2.2 (5 reviews)

38 likes

Toucan is a small portableapp utility allowing you to synchronise, backup and secure your data with more options than the built in suite utilities. It is split up into 7 tabs, allowing you to easily find the function that you want.

Cost / License

Free
Open Source (GPL-2.0)

Application typeApplication types

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Discontinued

Platforms

Windows
PortableApps.com

No automatical symmetrical file-deletion

Toucan alternatives

Discontinued

Toucan is not being actively developed or maintained. That means that new features are unlikely to appear and bug submissions will generally not be reviewed unless a pull request with a fix is offered by the community.

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Features

Encrypted Backup
Incremental Backup
AES-256 Encryption
Portable
Command line interface
File Sync
Multiple languages
Folder Sync

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tomerkatzir3 added Toucan as alternative to Verbally
3 months ago
anselmus updated Toucan
12 months ago

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Comments and Reviews

Top Negative Comment

Kandi

★★★★★

Mar 9, 2020

You have to go folder by folder to see all the changes in the Preview option. So if you have 100 folders, you won't see all the changes at once before running the Sync, until you open all the folders/subfolders. That makes it unusable to me because I always want to see the changes before proceeding, so does Freefilesync.

TBayAreaPat

★★★★★

Sep 20, 2025

Toucan crashed when I tried to do a drive-to-drive comparison, and it can't be trusted with complex folders like \Program Files. FreeFileSync is much more trustworthy.

Korwin

★★★★★

Aug 4, 2023

A good application, but with hundreds of thousands of files on Windows x64 with 32 GB of RAM, it crashes without error messages.

em4020

★★★★★

Nov 22, 2010

Toucan has no automatical symmetrical file-deletion

No automatical file-deletion at the other side (equal which side) of a sync-folder-pair, if file-deletion-time was later than last-file-change-time at the side, where the file still exists, see screenshot. Sync-Apps with symmetrical auto-file-deletion are: Allway Sync, PureSync, Synkron.

NginUS

★★★★★

Aug 9, 2010

Someone said this was an alternative to DirSync Pro, but it doesn't checksum what it writes, which is the only thing I use DirSyncPro for, so this one's useless to me.

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What is Toucan?

Features:

Five synchronisation modes, Copy, Mirror, Equalise, Move and Clean. These can be combined with a variety of file checks such as File Size, Modified Time and a File Header Check to minimise the amount of copying needed.
Backup and restore in industry standard zip and 7-zip files, with support for complete backups, updating existing backups and incremental backups, as well as restoring files from an archive.
AES-256 encryption using ccrypt
Command line support, translations to many languages.
No VSS-Support
A complete command line system allowing you to create new jobs and run existing ones from the command prompt or a batch file.
A Rules system that allows you to easily exclude files based on their name, a regular expression, their modified date or file size.
An advanced scripting system using the Lua programming language that allows complex scripts to be created, anything from a backup script that automatically uploads new backups to a script that synchronizes your files to a USB drive and then encrypts the sensitive files in case of loss.
A large collect of in built Variables for basic functions such as the date and time or more complex variables that point to the drives label or documents directory. You can also define your own as short cuts to paths on your USB drive or your PC.