Here are some must-have apps or packages for your Synology NAS that we think you must use or try. Of course, not all users will use these apps nor all useful ones are listed here, but it's a preview of some we find interesting.
Official Synology Packages (Apps)
Hyper Backup
Hyper Backup helps you protect shared folder data, packages, and LUNs on your Synology NAS thoroughly, providing diverse backup destinations and multiple backup versions. Restoration is available with a straightforward...
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Updated on: 04-Jun-2026 06:59 BST (+0100)
Os
APM ✎ : 1.2.1-71852 ⇩ : 2026-04-29
BSM ✎ : 1.5.1-65922 ⇩ : 2026-04-21
DSM ✎ : 7.3.2-86009-3 ⇩ : 2026-03-17
DSMUC ✎ : 3.1.5-23082 ⇩ : 2026-03-24
DSM_Enterprise ✎ : 1.0-101188 ⇩ : 2026-05-11
SRM ✎ : 1.3.2-9366-2 ⇩ : 2026-05-29 ✱
VS600HD ✎ : 1.2.0-64 ⇩ : 2025-10-01
VSF ✎ : 5.0.3-6281 ⇩ : 2023-05-02
VSM ✎ : 3.0.3-3281 ⇩ : 2023-05-02
Package
AIConsole ✎ : 1.2.1-0483 ⇩ : 2026-03-27
AcronisTrueImage ✎ : 1.0.0000 ⇩ : 2017-09-12
ActiveBackup ✎ ...
Back in September 2020, I wrote a short article on how to get Portainer up and running as well as connect it with multiple Docker hosts using the Portainer agent.
With that article, you have all you need to get up and running. In this article, I would like to talk about docker-compose and how you can use Portainer and its stacks feature to use docker-compose files as well as what benefits you might have when using Portainer as opposed to the Docker command line.
For more details visit the...
This short article will be about Docker management. I meant to write it up sooner but always pushed it back because everything can be done using the command line. If you are into Docker or just starting, you will know (or soon find out) that it is a command-line-based platform. There is nothing you can't do with Docker this way but sometimes you might want to have a nice UI that will help you navigate more easily, do more, and have an overview of your container usage and multiple hosts. This...
This series will focus on helping out 1st time Synology users that are willing to dive into the NAS universe and not sure how to and what to do 1st.
The series is divided into 5 sections with one intro topic.
Matomo (formerly Piwik) is the leading open-source analytics platform that gives you more than just powerful analytics:
Free open-source software
100% data ownership
User privacy protection
User-centric insights
Customisable and extensible
For Matomo in Docker we'll use 3 docker images:
Matomo official image
Linuxserver MariaDB (database)
phpMyAdmin (web UI for MariaDB)
First, install MariaDB and phpMyAdmin. Create a database for Matomo in phpMyAdmin (for database collation use...
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docker-compose example:
version: "3.5"
services:
bw:
image: vaultwarden/server
network_mode: "bridge"
container_name: "bw"
ports:
- "80:80"
volumes:
- "<path>:/data"
environment:
- "SMTP_PASSWORD=password" #add SMTP_XXXX variables to allow public user managment (account reset etc)
- "SMTP_USERNAME=username"
- "SMTP_SECURITY=starttls"
-...
How strong is your cybersecurity strategy? The engineers at Synology have put together this Security Checklist to make sure you have all your bases covered.
*this PDF is from Synology and is available also on their download page here