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Help SyncUp grow up.

SyncUp is free for everyone. Servers, bandwidth, and the unglamorous bits behind the scenes aren't. Here's where the money goes, and how you can help if you want to.

SyncUp is a one-person project. No company behind it, no team, no investors. Just me shipping code between day-job shifts because watching things together should be easy and free.

Every room, every synced playback, every minute of voice chat runs on infrastructure that costs money to keep online. More users mean bigger bandwidth bills. And there's no ads, no paywall on the core experience. Only people who choose to chip in.

If you want to chip in, get something back for it. SyncUp Plus is $3.99 a month or $39.99 a year, and it starts with a 7-day free trial. The Movie Night Pass is $1.99 and opens up the big Plus features (50-person rooms, unlimited voice) for 48 hours, with nothing to cancel afterwards. Either one pays for servers and bandwidth. SyncUp stays free at its core, forever.

Where the money goes

Straight into the plumbing.

01

Servers & hosting

Keeping the infrastructure online and scaling it up as more people find SyncUp.

02

Global CDN

Edge servers in more regions so playback starts fast no matter where you are.

03

Bandwidth & uptime

Monthly egress bills, monitoring, backups. The unglamorous stuff that keeps rooms alive.

Two ways to chip in

Pick whichever fits.

Both go into the same servers. One renews until you stop it, the other stops on its own.

SyncUp Plus

$3.99/mo

Or $39.99 a year. Rooms up to 50 people, voice with no daily limit, custom branding, and rooms that never expire. Starts with a 7-day free trial.

Movie Night Pass

$1.99

Bigger rooms, unlimited voice, and chat GIFs for 48 hours. One payment, no subscription, nothing to cancel. Good for the one big watch party.