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Just wanting to add my voice to the request for simple steam deck install from flathub via Discover.
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Any updates on official support for Flatpak?
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Here’s another customer requesting this, please.
Immutable distros are seen by many as the future of Linux desktop/workstation.
Not providing a flatpak would eventually put Insync at a disadvantage.
Please, please do this ASAP.
More and more people are going immutable everyday and Flatpak is the way to go.
Thanks
I’d like to add my vote here as well. I was able to install it on fedora kinoite using rpm ostree install and reference the file but i ran into issues when upgrading or rebasing because of missing repo paths for rawhide. Ultimately i’m pretty happy with the product but that only stands as long as it is useful, so please implement flatpak when possible.
rpm-ostree transaction failed with:
error: Loading sack: Updating rpm-md repo ‘insync’: cannot update repo ‘insync’: Cannot download repomd.xml: Cannot download repodata/repomd.xml: All mirrors were tried; Last error: Status code: 404 for http://yum.insync.io/fedora/rawhide/repodata/repomd.xml (IP: 2400:52e0:1a01::996:1)
maybe you’d be kind enough to add this in the mean time?
thank you
Matt
I’ve submitted a pull request to this repo that has some documentation changes. https://github.com/Xarius86/insync-distrobox
So more and more immutable distros are appearing, and more and more apps are coming to flatpak.
But still, no updates from insync about development progress.
I would throw my money at the company, if we could get a stable working flatpak in a reasonable timespan.
Would say a one time pay of 4.99 $/€ and we get a flatpak within three months? @mia 
Any update on a flatpak implementation of Insync. This would facilitate distribution in the Linux community. Thank you.
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Thank you to each and every user who has expressed their eagerness and requests to have us work (again) on Flatpak!
This is something we will revisit in the future, but at the moment, we are focused on different tasks and projects an would like to express our appreciation for your understanding. 
Rest assured that we have not forgotten this; we value your input on why Flatpak development remains to be a highly requested endeavor!
Well, hope springs eternal, but a request for a flatpak has been her for going on seven years, so we’re not exactly holding our breath. Thank you for your response though.
Hi Mia, I think that pray for understanding, when you have delayed 7 years a community request, is not correct.
If the team is doing nothing with flatpak and snap, at least, try to mantain updated actual repositories. Opensuse Leap was released one month ago. You still don’t have the repo updated. Previous Leap repo doesn’t work anymore.
If your team do some testing, you’ll notice that Fedora 37 package works fine in openSUSE 15.6.
I don’t know about the projects that your team is working on, but I think that keep updated repos is the most important thing. For all of your customers.
Very dissapointed on how you handle the things. it’s obvious that customers opinion is trash.
Have a nice day!
Hi @mia
Missing flatpak support is a pity and it would also simplify your life alot. You cannot keep up with all the different linux distributions and versions. For a user, insync may fail at any time due to a broken dependency (as I just experienced today) and is therefore quite a risk to rely on. Furthermore, what is your recommendation to install insync on a immutable linux distribution (such as Aeon or Silverblue) without the support of flatpak?
Please reconsider your priorities, given that there’s not much missing according to this post
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Hi @brunoerusso,
Customer feedback is one of the most important things we take into consideration when building and improving Insync. Seeing it as trash is the last thing that we want users to feel, and I would like to apologize for the issues and troubles you’ve faced while using our application.
As for Flatpak, we have explored this exhaustively in the past but have decided to shelf it (not permanently) as it presented certain issues that caused significant limitations in further developing support for it. We are happy to circle back to it as soon as our team’s resources permit since there have been plenty of input from this thread alone.
As for OpenSUSE, this is not an officially supported distribution but we have a repository for it. I’ll send your feedback to make sure that repositories are maintained. Thank you so much!
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@kusi I deeply understand your sentiments; one of the reasons why we decided to pursue Flatpak research + development was exactly for this purpose. I will be forwarding your input and upvotes to our team for serious reconsideration. Thank you for taking the time to post here 
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Hi Mia, try to understand that a topic with more than 7 years it’s a lot. I think I don’t think that customer feedback is one of the most important things. Today, Flatpak is a standard for lot of applications. So, customers comments are not considered for your team.
I know that opensuse is not officially supported, but at least, in absence of Flatpak or some other package format that can include all other distros (snap, appimage), it would be interesting for the current repositories to be updated and maintained.
I hope you can consider what customers think or recommend. At last, they’re the users who uses the software.
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I’ve been a lifetime license user since about 2015 or so. I love this software and it’s invaluable to my workflow. I’ve recently had to set up an emergency work environment on my Steam Deck due to my laptop suddenly dying and I was surprised to find that there was no Flatpak!
I hope this feature request gets some love, I can’t imagine I’m the only person who would love to use and pay for this software on their Steam Deck, I’ve seen people using them as audio / video mixers, drawing tablets, etc, and I’m sure there is a need for Google Drive file syncing. A flatpak would be fantastic for Steam Deck users or any other niche distros.
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@mia
As a newly user and a frequent distro hopper I wanted to check the status on flatpak as I use that a lot. I had not expected a 7 year old thread on this… wow…
I agree with a lot of the user comments here, both on flatpaks, immutable OSes and the importance of supporting new and old distros. I think the conclusion here is that there’s a lot for the dev team to do. So what I find weirdest of all is that you don’t engage the very active community and the eagerness to support immutable OSes by getting a damn flatpak.
You literally have a TON of capable people here sitting on their hands to support the efforts getting insync as a flatpak. That is a huge advantage and unheard of when we’re talking about a commercial software product on Linux.
Please acknowledge that and take advantage of it if you can’t allocate the resources (which it doesn’t seem like you can). That’s totally fair but please don’t say that you do focus if you don’t really do it (which there can be a ton of reasons for).
I don’t really know how to be more direct about this. Please let us help you.
/klaus
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I can see your pain points and everyone else’s too, @klausagnoletti. We have explored developing Flatpak some time ago, but ran into multiple hurdles that made it extremely complex to support it (see here).
While we have shelved this since then, we will still heavily consider this in the future given the huge support that our Linux community is ready to give. I appreciate users like you who don’t hesitate to be as direct as you need to be. Thank you for using your voice!
Hey @mia and thanks for your reply.
Speaking of frankness, your reply was more or less a copy/paste of your previous comments so it really didn’t bring anything new to the table sinceI just more or less read the entire 7 years of threads on the subject. Instead I would find it way more valuable if you commented on the things I wrote that you haven’t (as far as I know) commented on before. Especially the part on involving the community and trying out something new now that it seems like whatever you’ve done so far hasn’t done much of a difference. At least not externally.
Have a great day!
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Thank you for sharing your thoughts further! I have forwarded your suggestions to our Linux Team so we can assess alternative ways to approach Flatpak support in the future.