whats next?
You might have noticed our roadmap, so you know that we have high aims with fruux - but we need your help to make it happen. Especially we’d like to know which features you want to see in our next version! Please add your comments below! Feature requests like “Please add Safari bookmark syncing” might be implemented earlier, than “Please add a Windows client and FileSyncing”. 
We recently added a french localization to our software, which was donated by our user linathael over at HardMac.com/MacBidouille.com, then screwed up by our french inability and luckily corrected with the help of several comments from other french fruux users (Thank you, Emmanuel, Pierre, Virginie, Jean)! If you’d like to see fruux localized in your language and want to donate your free time, please let us know. We’ll provide you with the localizable strings.
Tags: development, features, feedback, fruux, future, i18n, l10n, localization, requests, social, suggestions, translation
October 4th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
keychain syncing
growl support would be a nice addition…
also a plugin system to be able to define syncs yourself (opera/firefox bookmarks, opml files and so on) without the need to program them into fruux in the first place…
October 4th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
The roadmap looks excellent. Safari bookmark and preferences will make me give up MobileMe. And when its there I will donate the cost of MobileMe to you!
Also appreciated would be Firefox bookmarkt sync. A killer app could be syncing bookmarks across Safari and Firefox.
For preference sync you could consider the adding sync details: i.e. choose which preferences to sync and which not. When syncing a laptop and desktop you may want to sync passwords but not the Dock for example.
And please add the version and a ‘check for updates’ button on the prefpane.
Good work, love your new site!
October 4th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
Bookmark syncing (Safari, but Safari and Firefox would be extra special). Also, keychain syncing would be neat as well! iCal sync would let me drop BusySync, but this would be a lower priority for me.
October 4th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
Hey ! I just wanted to prevent you there’s a mistake in french translation ; it’s not “synchronisé maintenant” but “synchronisER maintenant”. Everything else is perfect ! I love Fruux but it will be even better if there was bookmark syncing.
Thank you and good work !
October 4th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
I wouldn’t concentrate so much on l18n. I think syncing capabilities are more important for now. You can always localize afterwards and I think a lot will change until you release the final version of fruux.
October 4th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
My vote’s for the Safari bookmark syncing. That should be a sensational addition!
Great work, thank you.
October 5th, 2008 at 12:11 am
It would be nice if FRUUX would work within my own home WiFi network instead of the internet. To many services like this simply disappear after a few months. I would like to donate, but not through your Pay Pal link. Is there another way.
Thanks, Gary
October 5th, 2008 at 7:08 am
I think the first comment is bang on — keychain syncing would be very useful, as this is the weak link even with the more advanced keychain product 1password. This data needs to be portable and syncable. If I have two different macs I can only do all my secure online stuff from one of them, currently.
However I think then it would have to be clear that you were providing some kind of sufficient security for transferring and storing this information, as this is among the most sensitive information on anyone’s computer. Perhaps one idea would be syncing via a shared-key encryption system, so that the multiple macs involved only need the key to sync their data but the backup data which resides on your servers would not be readable by anyone else (including you;))?
Also a plugin structure would be great.
October 5th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Yep, Bookmark syncing and a plugin structure to select manuelly what you want to sync are another interesting features I’d love to see.
When I read in your roadmap that iPhone support was located somewhere >1.0, I dropped the hope of soon syncing everything with the iPhone, too. I guess I won’t be able to expect such a feature soon?!
October 5th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
a version number in the prefpane!
October 5th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Can you now sync with the ipod touch w/o plugging it in???
October 5th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
I wait for these killer apps:
- webapplication
- addressbook group support
I vote for:
- version number in prefpane
October 5th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
… aah … and change of userdata (e.g. emailaddress) please
October 6th, 2008 at 10:39 am
Please add Safari bookmark syncing!
Please add Growl Support!
Please add Maill Support!
Thanks!!
October 6th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Please add a function to select the calendars i want to sync.
I only want to sync one of my calendars. (office / private)
Thanks a lot for your work!
October 6th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
Awesome looking product. Can’t wait to try it out.
I’d love to be able to sync with other users on the same Mac. For example, my wife and I have a Mac at home. We both have separate accounts. I’d love to be able to sync my entire address book with hers so that if one of us updates information for a friend or family member, the other receives the update as well.
October 6th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
I have a Linux PC at work and a Mac at home. It would be great, if I could sync between Thunderbird Lightning and my Mac!
Great product.
Thanx, Ben
October 6th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
hello, there is no viable (and simple) OSX address book sharing tool out there, any chance you guys could work on one?
October 7th, 2008 at 2:15 am
iPhone syncing would be great. Then I could drop that dog MobileMe for good. I also like keychain syncing and bookmarks as others have said.
Thanks!
October 7th, 2008 at 4:29 am
I agree wholeheartedly with the requests for firefox sync. and i’ll reiterate that the idea to sync bookmarks across firefox and safari would be wicked awesome.
mail support would be great - the ability to sync local folders
October 7th, 2008 at 6:44 am
Nice service,
It would be nice, if you can choose, what you want to sync… Right now it just syncs everything… I like to sync ical & addressbook, but I don’t want to mess up with my bookmarks from safari…
October 7th, 2008 at 9:11 am
A thing I start missing now since syncing calendars via fruux-only is a web application! That’s one big priority for me!
October 7th, 2008 at 10:44 am
10.4.11 Support! Otherwise it’s of no use for me (Running Leopard and Tiger on different machines)
October 7th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Simple all-in-one Mac to Mac syncing seems to be missing in our Mac community, and it’s desperately needed. What a great start!
I’d love to see keychain syncing. What a great idea!
I’d also love to see (and surprised no one has commented on) iTunes library syncing. This seems to be one of the biggest problems with iTunes and multiple computers.
October 7th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
adressbook-syncing by groups (what i think is meant with roadmap 1.0) would be a) very great and b) something only fruux has (e.g. mobile.me: only sync whole addressbook, be it personal or business)
October 7th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Hi,
i would love to have iphone sync.
This has for me personally the highest value.
Thanks for having this great tool.
October 7th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
Nice app!
My wishes …
1. iPhoneSync
2. Safari2FirefoxSync
Good luck.
October 7th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
iPhone syncing!
October 7th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
My priorities would be:
1. A Web-app access to my synched data. So I can look at my address book and calendar from anywhere in the world OR from any Mac I’m synched too. That kind of pan-synch works pretty well for Evernote, for example.
2. More preferences. It is very important for me to decide whether a particular computer should synch the calendar or not, for example… whereas I ALWAYS synch the whole address book.
3. It doesn’t appear that contact images are synching, just contact details. My contact images are an important part of my address book.
4. NO, do not make the iPhone a priority. All iPhones need to synch with another device anyway, right? Focus on that. Synch directly with the iPhone’s addressbook would probably be blocked by apple, and I do NOT want to access a third-party address book on my iPhone. That would probably be blocked, too.
I guess if you build a really snazzy Web app for accessing the data, that would be keen for the iPhone (and my #1 above. *grin*)
October 8th, 2008 at 9:53 am
i hope Apple will allow fruux for using it with the iPhone…
October 8th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
What would be a great feature, and not so hard to implement I think, would be selective syncing. What I mean by this is the option to sync my safari bookmarks and address book, but not my calendar for example.
One example where this would help: I am using a CalDav server (so I don’t even need the calendar syncing) and syncing the calendar now messes up the calendars.
October 9th, 2008 at 11:26 am
As you’re adding more services the most important thing is to be able to choose which we sync - just a list of check boxes to turn on or off syncing for each service/application in the pref pane.
After that, web access will be awesome!
October 10th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
I’d also like to vote for selective syncing! My work machine needs a very different set of bookmarks, but the same address book and calendar events. For now I’m just running 0.7.1 at work, and 0.8 across my home computers, which seems to be working fine, but fine grain control over the specific services synced would be much appreciated.
Another addition I would love to see is syncing over alternate servers. 1password is currently phasing out the my1password service (a server they run themselves) in favor of giving people control over how their passwords are synced. Not only does it take immense pressure off the developers to maintain server systems, it opens up a lot of options for the user, and can help ensure a more robust and reliable experience (since syncing would no longer depend on a single server system). Dropbox is especially useful in situations like this.
The one downside I can think of is the lack of online access to data. My1password lets you login and view your passwords securely online, something that’s more difficult, or even impossible, to do without a developer-supported server system. I can understand why you would want to continue maintaining your own systems (especially as a source of revenue in the future, if you were to justifiably start charging for it!), but not needing to rely on it would be nice, especially as Fruux grows and the chance of server downtime increases simply due to user load.
Thank you for everything you’re doing here. It’s working beautifully, and I’m really looking forward to further advancements!
October 13th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
addressbook groups
October 14th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
[...] are still working hard on our next bugfix release and hope to implement many of your feature requests very [...]
October 17th, 2008 at 7:56 am
I agree on a tab where you can select which services should be synced.
October 19th, 2008 at 8:17 am
The iCal syncing could take the calendar groups into account.
A tab where you could select which services to sync or the possibility to define services to sync by accounts. We could use an account to sync our addressbook declared in all our stations and two others to sync my wife’s iCal on one set of machines/users, and mine on the other…
October 20th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
I would love to have sync service on address group. Right now, the current release only sync contacts but all the grouping information is not sync.
November 6th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
hi, sounds good. but i think before adding new types of sync (i.e. prefs, mail, keychain etc.) i think an iPhone sync feature is required. number two on my wishlist (or maybe even number one) would be firefox2safari sync. thanks
November 7th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
contacts
calendars
bookmarks
mail accounts
keychain
can be synced on osx 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, iphone, windows vista and windows 7
(applications that can sync)
-safari, osx, windows
-firefox, osx and windows
-mail
-windows mail
-IE
-address book
-ical
-windows contacts
-windows calendar