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Sincroniza

Google Drive in the Mac Finder, plus scheduled backups of your folders.

MacPrivate beta

What it does

Google Drivein the Finder

Sincroniza is a Mac menu-bar app with two jobs. It puts your Google Drive in Finder, with My Drive, shared drives and the files shared with you, and downloads each file only when you open it.

It also backs up the folders you choose to Google Drive, every week or whenever you ask. Each upload is confirmed on Drive before anything else happens, and then, if you want, Sincroniza frees the space on your Mac.

Who uses it

Boldo's team, and Mac professionals with large projects whose archive already lives in Google Drive. It is in private beta.

The screens

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Google Drive in Finder: the account's folders, with thumbnails straight from Drive.

Screens with demo data, from made-up clients.

In six stepsHow it works

01InstallDrag Sincroniza to Applications and open it. It lives in the menu bar.
02Sign in with GoogleApple's secure sign-in sheet opens Google's consent page. The permission is kept in the Mac's Keychain.
03Drive in FinderSincroniza shows up under Locations in Finder. Open a file to download it, or keep it offline.
04Choose the backupThe folders on your Mac and a destination folder in My Drive, with ignore patterns.
05RunEvery week, on the day and hour you choose, or with Backup Now. A dry run first shows what would go up.
06Free up spaceFiles confirmed on Drive can leave the Mac. Folders edited in the last days stay.

What’s inside

Features

Drive in Finder

My Drive, shared drives and "Shared with me", downloaded only when you open a file.

Offline when you need it

Make a file available offline, or online-only again, from the right-click menu.

Works like Finder

Drag to upload, rename and move. Google Docs open in the browser.

Stays current

Changes made elsewhere show up in about 30 seconds.

Respects permissions

Files you can only view stay read-only in Finder.

Scheduled backups

Every week and with Backup Now, with a dry run, pause and resume.

Confirmed before cleanup

Each upload is confirmed by its ID and size, and the local file is checked again (SHA-256).

No duplicates

A changed file becomes a new version of the same Drive file.

Where it runs

Mac

macOS 26.2 or later, on Apple silicon. Signed and notarized by Apple.

Google account

Any Google account. Shared drives need Google Workspace.

Security

There is no Boldo server in the middle: Sincroniza talks only to Google, straight from your Mac. No analytics.

Sign-in uses Google's secure flow for apps (PKCE), with no secret inside the app. The permission is kept in the macOS Keychain.

The app and its extensions run in Apple's sandbox.

A backup never removes a local file that changed after it was uploaded.

Your data

What Boldo Sincroniza does with your Google account

Sincroniza runs entirely on your Mac and talks to Google Drive directly: your files and your Google permission never go to a Boldo server.

On the Mac it keeps the permission, in the Keychain; a local database with your backup folders, the list of uploaded files and the history of each run; the Drive file list that Finder shows; and copies of the files you opened or kept offline.

You can purge the cache, reset the databases or remove Sincroniza from Finder inside the app. Signing out deletes the permission from the Mac; to remove it at Google too, use myaccount.google.com/permissions.

Technical details: the Google permissions

driveShow your whole Google Drive in Finder, open and edit those files from Finder, and back up the folders you choose into a Drive folder. Finder has to reach every file you can see in Drive, not only the ones the app created, so a narrower permission is not enough.

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