About Us

Company Vision

Mobile cloud sync and push email for billions of smart and feature phones.

Funambol's vision is to make it easy to keep billions of smart and feature phones in sync with the Internet cloud, email systems, personal computers and other systems. We uniquely do this through open source software that provides the greatest degree of device compatibility as well as freedom, control, flexibility and risk-reduction.

In addition to supporting billions of mobile phones, Funambol works with leading email and webmail systems, including Yahoo! Mail, AOL Mail, Gmail and Hotmail, POP/IMAP servers and Exchange and Domino via Funambol community projects. The software supports popular desktop apps, including MS Outlook and Mozilla Thunderbird on Windows, Mac and Linux PCs. Funambol performs mobile cloud sync for contacts, calendars, tasks, notes and content such as pictures as well as push email.

We often get asked about the pronounciation and meaning of our name. Funambol (pronounced Fu-NOM-bol) is derived from the Latin words funis (rope) and ambulare (walking), meaning a tightrope walker. Just as a tightrope walker must be strong, brave, disciplined and nimble, Funambol continuously balances the needs of our open source community and our commercial customers.

Started in 2001 as the Sync4j open source project, Funambol has grown to be the leading mobile open source project in the world, with more than three million downloads and used by leading mobile operators, service providers, enterprises and OEMs/ISVs/ODMs.

We invite you to learn more about Funambol and our community by exploring our website and our open source forge.